Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in US Senate, ends White House bid

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Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in US Senate, ends White House bid
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Buh bye

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Mark my words, Chris Christie will be the last holdout in the primaries I guarantee you. He knows Trump is going to get convicted and is banking on slipping in as the only viable alternative in Q3 of next year.

I'd prefer Haley if we had to end up with a Republican. She at least seems to understand geopolitics and the failing stance of being staunchly anti-abortion more than Christie.

She tows the party line, I think, mostly because she has to, but is more sensible (for a Republican) on many issues.

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To Republicans, he never would have been more than a useful idiot.

He couldn't gain enough support from the party he is campaigning against or against his own, often racist, party? Shhhhhhocker.

The SAG-AFTRA strike ended and his girlfriend had to get back to work.

Tim Scott: "I'm ending my campaign for the Republican presidential nominee."

Literally everyone:

Everyone on that stage is running for second place Republican. Which will be third place overall.

The whole thing is a waste of everyone's time.

It's insane that people would vote for someone who is too cowardly to even answer softball questions from his own propaganda network on a stage of suck-ups.

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Congratulations to South Carolina on being the first state to elect two gay Senators.

I appreciate that he tried to claim the gay slander was because he was black when being gay is a much bigger issue to them

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Senator Tim Scott 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.

While Scott, who is from South Carolina, enjoyed a modest, but measurable bump in opinion polls in some states over the summer, voter excitement proved short-lived.

Many major donors supported him, in part because they believed he would have a high chance of beating Democratic President Joe Biden if he were to emerge as the Republican nominee.

Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is also from South Carolina, received plaudits from voters and donors for her combative performance.

Scott shifted tactics in the fall months and began adopting more confrontational rhetoric toward both Democrats and other Republican contenders.


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