It was nearing Christmas, just over a month after Barack Obama had won reelection to the presidency, in 2012, when Tim Scott was elevated into the U.S. Senate.
Scott was in Iowa this week, and so was Haley. The two erstwhile allies are now foes, at least electorally.
So why should anyone care if Scott is thinking about formally running for president? It’s a legitimate question, but the easiest answer is that it’s still very early in the process and many voters simply don’t yet know who he is. Republican primary voters won’t cast their first ballots until Feb. 5 of next year, still over nine months away.a recent poll
“I was raised by a single mother in poverty. The spoons in our apartment were plastic, not silver,” Scott said in his video announcing the exploratory committee. “But we had faith. We put in the work, and we had an unwavering belief that we too could live the American Dream. I know America is a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. I know it because I’ve lived it.”how grandfather was"forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and never learned to read or write.
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