Republican Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott announced this Sunday that he will suspend his presidential campaign. abandoning the 2024 White House race, months of stagnation in the polls despite spending large sums of money on television advertising.

“When I go back to Iowa, it won’t be a presidential candidate. I’m suspending my campaign. “I think the voters, who are the most brilliant people on the planet, have told me very clearly: ‘Not now, Tim,'” he said in a statement to the station. FoxNews.

Scott added that He has no plans to endorse another candidate in the GOP primary. “The best way to help me is not to interfere,” he said, while ruling out the possibility of becoming another candidate’s running mate.

“I ran for president (…) Being vice president was never on my to-do list for this campaign. and certainly not now,” said Scott, who came to the Senate in 2013 and announced his candidacy in the Republican primary last May.

Senator from South Carolina 58 years old He was the only African American among the candidates to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 elections, including The clear favorite is former President Donald Trump (2017–2021).

As CNN reported this Monday, Scott’s most important donor group decided not to invest more in television advertising to attract voters after the third Republican presidential debate took place last Wednesday in Miami without Trump, who did not participate in any of them.

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The announcement came two weeks after former US Vice President Mike Pence will withdraw his candidacy in the party primaries for the purpose of presidential elections. “It became clear to me that now is not my time,” he said then, clearing the way for his former vice presidential candidate Donald Trump after openly criticizing him.

Pence played a key role in confirming the results the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden was elected despite allegations of fraud made by Trump.

In addition to Trump, the race also includes the governor of Florida. Ron DeSantisformer UN Ambassador and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haleyformer Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie and businessman of Indian origin Vivek Ramaswamy.

In a poll released on November 8 to coincide with the third debate, Trump emerged as the clear favorite to win the Republican nomination. with 61% of voting intent, followed by DeSantis (17%), Haley (10%), Ramaswamy (4%), Christie (3%) and Scott (2%).

The same survey showed that Trump will have a four-point lead about the current US President, Democrat Joseph Biden, if the 2024 presidential elections took place now.

(according to information from Europe Press And EFE)