“Newly declared GOP presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott discusses his journey from poverty to the Senate, where he is the only Black Republican. In this 2021 interview, he outlines his vision for opportunity zones, school choice, and police reform.” – Twin Cities PBS, May 26, 2023

“Fundraising, along with polling, is a key metric used to measure a candidate’s popularity and strength. The money raised by candidates can be used for travel, creating and running ads, for data operations, and to build up campaign stafff and get-out-the-vote efforts.” – Fox News, May 25, 2023

“Scott is known as one of the top fundraisers on Capitol Hill. He brought in over $41 million last cycle as he cruised to re-election in the Senate. His haul was the second most of any Republican senator running for re-election in the 2022 cycle. The senator carried much of those funds over to the 2024 cycle. He had roughly $22 million in his campaign coffers at the end of March, which is being transferred to his presidential campaign.” – Fox News, May 23, 2023

“Scott, who cruised to re-election last November to what he has said will be his final six-year term in the Senate, is expected to court evangelical Christian voters, who play an outsized role in GOP politics in Iowa and his home state.” – Fox News, May 22, 2023

“This campaign is going to reintroduce Mike Pence to the country as his own man, not as vice president but as a true economic, social and national security conservative – a Reagan conservative.” – Fox News, May 15, 2023

“We also need to restore a sense of normalcy about we are a nation that has borders. Our sovereignty as a people matters. Don’t tell me foreigners can just decide to come across the border when they want to. We decide who comes into this country as Americans, we have every right to have that border secured and not have this disaster unfolding.” – Fox News, May 13, 2023

“And I would hope that by winning the hearts and minds of the American people, that we would have a different conversation about the culture of life and preserving life even better.” – Faithwire, May 2, 2023

“And Pence’s camp also is having conversations about the PAC with Mike Biundo, the New Hampshire-based veteran of nine presidential campaigns — one among a tiny group of Republican consultants to have won both the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary — who was national senior adviser to Trump in 2016.” – Politico, April 28, 2023

The Securing Our Border Act:

• Funds nonintrusive border inspections to better equip our law enforcement’s capability to track drugs and other illicit contraband before it enters the United States;
• Funds border wall construction and other technologies to bolster tracking and enforcement efforts along the southwestern border;
• Provides retention bonuses for Border Patrol agents to help mitigate morale issues; and
• Ends the “Catch and Release” policy established by the Biden administration.

The National Border Patrol Council, which represents approximately 18,000 Border Patrol agents, endorses this legislation. – Tim Scott United States Senator serving South Carolina, April 26, 2023