Tim Scott Enters the Growing 2024 GOP Presidential Field

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The South Carolina Senator joined the 2024 Presidential contest with a message of optimism and expanding opportunity, a sharp contrast with Donald Trump's rhetoric of 'retribution.' What are his chances at getting the GOP nomination? Plus, Joe Biden raises the specter of the 14th Amendment to avoid a national default as he prepares to meet with Kevin McCarthy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:23.9	Chipscott announces his run for the White House as a South Carolina senator have a realistic
0:28.8	chance at winning the Republican nomination and what is becoming an increasingly crowded
0:34.3	field.
0:35.3	Plus the debt ceiling talks broke down over the weekend amid mutual recriminations, but
0:40.6	they restarted after a chat between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden will update
0:46.4	you on the latest and explain why a default should be off the table.
0:50.7	Welcome.
0:51.7	I'm Paul Gigo here with Kim Strassel and Manet Buke.
0:54.7	Arula, welcome to you.
0:56.2	Let's start with Tim Scott announcing his presidential campaign with a surprise endorsement of Senator
1:01.4	John Foon with South Dakota following Mike Brown's other South Dakota Republican endorsing
1:08.0	Mr. Scott.
1:09.0	Let's listen to John Foon introducing the Senator followed by the Senator himself.
1:14.6	He is a candidate who has a strong record of legislative accomplishment.
1:20.0	I work side by side with him through one of the most economically consequential pieces
1:25.2	of legislation in the last several decades.
1:27.5	That was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
1:30.7	He was a relentless fighter for South Carolina and for people in this country.
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