Scott -- the only Black Republican in the Senate -- has been testing the waters for months.
Scott declined to endorse Haley -- who appointed him to a vacant Senate seat in 2012 -- a sign that he could seek the presidency himself. Both South Carolinians had attended the anti-tax group Club for Growth's donor retreat in Palm Beach earlier this year alongside other potential GOP candidates.
"I believe we give the voters a choice ... so they can decide how we move forward. As opposed to trying to have a conversation about how to beat a Republican, I think we're better off having a conversation about beating Joe Biden," Scott added. At a Christian conservative forum in his home state last month, Scott took aim at Biden's economic policy and what he called the "disrespect" of law enforcement.He said that to "restore faith in America, we must be the party of security," arguing for more funding for police departments and to "close the US southern border, period."
He's occasionally spoken out against Trump -- for example, after the former president equivocated on racially motivated protesters and subsequent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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