Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., suspended his run for the 2024 Republican presidential election nomination on Sunday after months of burning through campaign cash at a blistering rate without making a significant dent in national opinion polls.
The lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, Scott began his campaign in May, promising to present an optimistic, forward-looking vision for America. He portrayed himself as a deeply conservative candidate who was more capable of healing political divisions in the United States than front-runner and former President Donald Trump and another candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Like other candidates, he never articulated to Trump supporters why they should move on from the former president, who is still well liked by most primary voters.Many major donors supported him, in part because they believed he would have a high chance of beating Democrat President Joe Biden if he were to emerge as the Republican nominee. They were also turned off by DeSantis' often-confrontational attitude toward big business and opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine.
Scott shifted tactics in the fall months and began adopting more confrontational rhetoric toward both Democrats and other Republican contenders. After the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel, for instance, he said that Biden had "blood on his hands" for failing to do more to prevent it, even as Israel itself was caught off-guard by the incursion.
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