Who is Tim Scott?

Tim Scott, a Republican senator of South Carolina, announced his bid for president in May.

Scott is the only Black Republican in the Senate and has served since 2013. He was born in North Charleston, South Carolina, and had been viewed by political pundits as a potential 2024 Republican presidential contender.

During the first GOP debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Scott used his closing arguments to take a shot at biological males that compete in women's sports.

"If you’re able-bodied in America, you work. If you take out a loan, you pay it back. If you commit a violent crime, you got to jail. And if God made you a man, you play sports against men," Scott said. Critics gave Scott an overall underwhelming review in the analysis of the first GOP debate.

In August, Scott communicated that he would finish the border wall Donald Trump started if he were elected as president. Scott worked closely with Trump during the former president's administration on Opportunity Zones, which aimed to encourage economic investment in poor communities.

"Here’s a kid that grew up in North Charleston, South Carolina, mired in poverty, in a single parent household. To think about one day being the President of the United States just tells me that the evolution of the American soul continues to move toward that more perfect union," Scott told Fox News in May.

Scott hinted at his presidential run last November during his Senate re-election victory celebration by telling the story of how he took his grandfather to the polls in 2012, and that his grandfather proudly voted for him as well as for Democrat Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president.

"I wish he had lived long enough to see perhaps another man of color elected President of the United States," Scott said, before adding "but this time let it be a Republican."