WaPo: “South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination after months of struggling to gain ground in polling.
Scott, who focused his campaign on an uplifting message about his success in vaulting from poverty to political power and providing a “happy warrior” in the White House, told Trey Gowdy, a former congressman from South Carolina and longtime friend of Scott’s, that he was quitting the campaign trail. Appearing on Gowdy’s Fox News show, Scott, 58, did not endorse any other candidate, and he declined a suggestion that he might be a vice-presidential candidate.”