Senator Tim Scott drops out of the 2024 presidential race

• five days after disappointing showing in third GOP primary debate

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has announced he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. Scott, 58, told Fox News in an interview on Sunday evening that he had dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House. 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 frontrunner and former President Donald Trump and another candidate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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Scott, 58, told Fox News in an interview Sunday evening that he has withdrawn his bid for the White House

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AP Updated 10:27 PM EST, November 12, 2023

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina says he is dropping out of the 2024 GOP presidential race

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, about two months before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

The South Carolina senator made the surprise announcement on “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy. The news was so abrupt that one campaign worker told The Associated Press that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the show. The worker was not authorized to discuss the internal deliberations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The news comes as Scott, 58, continued to struggle in the polls and just days after the third Republican primary debate. The only Black Republican senator, Scott entered the race in May with more cash than any other Republican candidate but couldn’t find a lane in a field dominated by former President Donald Trump.

“I love America more today than I did on May 22,” Scott said Sunday night. “But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.’”

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Obama's former chief strategist

David Axelrod warns 80 year-old Biden's 'age issue' is huge for Democrats

• after ANOTHER embarrassing gaffe by president at Veteran's Day service

It comes after Biden, 80, suffered an embarrassing moment of confusion at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as he stumbled through a Veterans Day service. While he didn't reference it on Sunday, Axelrod - who served as chief strategist of Obama's two campaigns for the White House - said that Biden's age is becoming a problem as he hammered the president for the second time in a week. 'I think that there is one issue that is hanging over him,' Axelrod told Dana Bash of CNN in a conversation with ex-Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan. I think with Donald Trump on the other end, he could still win this election. But the age issue is difficult.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12741019/Obama-Axelrod-Biden-age-issue.html