of South Carolina officially entered the 2024 presidential race on Friday with a roughly $22 million war chest and theHe joins a primary contest thatholds a commanding lead over—but also one in which second place remains up for grabs, with presumptive candidateGiven the plethora of Republican mega-donors eager to stop another Trump nomination at any cost, the first non-Trump candidate to rise above the rest will likely be showered with cash.
Just how popular his bygone politics will be on the campaign trail is unclear, but even in his home state, support for Scott among Republican primary voters was in the single digits,The only Black Republican in the Senate, Scott has built a national profile by wading into contentious issues.