As a U.S. senator and former member of the House of Representatives, Tim Scott will begin as more of a contender than most of his predecessors, and will be one of the best-funded candidates in the 2024 presidential primary.
President of the United States from 2017 to 2021Maurice Washington, Charleston County’s first Black Republican chairman, sits in Hampton Park near his home in Charleston, S.C., on May 19, 2023.
Scott, who plans to formally announce his presidential campaign on Monday, will become one of a handful of Black conservatives to run for president in recent years. Herman Cain made a bid for the White House in 2011 and Ben Carson did so in 2016, but neither garnered widespread support.
Still, the number of Black Republicans who won seats last year is a fraction of the total number who ran for state and local office under the GOP — more than 80. And the Republican Party’s inroads with Black candidates have yet to overcome enduring feelings of distrust among Black voters toward the party.
For many in the Republican Party, its members of color are proof of its inclusivity. The success of a candidate like Scott — the first Black Republican to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction — helps in part to rebut claims that the GOP is inherently racist or, more broadly, that systemic racism remains an issue in America, Republicans say.
“He will have some that will try to force him to be ‘the Black Republican,’” Watts continued. “While I don’t think you should run from being Black, or run from being conservative, some will try to force him to play that role.” After a series of police killings in the summer of 2016, Scott gave a detailed speech on the Senate floor about instances when he was racially profiled by law enforcement, including by U.S. Capitol Police. These were moments, he said, when he “felt the pressure applied by the scales of justice when they are slanted.”
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