Tim Scott suspends 2024 presidential campaign after failing to gain any ground on Trump in polls

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) unexpectedly announced Sunday night that he was suspending his 2024 presidential campaign, as polls showed him failing to gain traction in a race increasingly dominated by former President Donald Trump.

“When I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate,” Scott told his fellow South Carolinian, former Rep. Trey Gowdy, on Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America.”

“I am suspending my campaign,” Scott added. “I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear — they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.’”

Scott announced he was suspending his campaign five days after the third Republican primary debate in Miami, in which he failed to stand out on the five-person stage, and as he faced an uphill battle to qualify for the next debate Dec. 6 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.