Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone Black Republican serving in the U.S. Senate, announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president on Monday morning in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Also Read: Who is Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates’ advisor who allegedly introduced Mila Antonova to Jeffrey Epstein

The senator, who has served as South Carolina’s senatorial representative since 2013, presents himself as a genuine conservative with a winning record.

Scott, 57, used his own upbringing as a poor child of a single mother as evidence that America is still a land of opportunity in a speech to supporters in his native North Charleston.

Also Read: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez: Relationship timeline

“We need a president who persuades not just our friends and our base,” he told supporters in his hometown. “We have to have a compassion for people who don’t agree with us. We have to believe that our ideas are so strong and so powerful and so persuasive that we can actually take it to the highest points in the world and be successful but we also have to be able to take it all the way down to places that today are hopeless and prove that who we are works for all Americans.”

Also Read: Video of Tommie Lee, Natalie Nunn’s fight in Baddies West Reunion goes viral

Scott argued in favor of the nation’s founding fathers, telling his audience, “We need to stop canceling our founding fathers and start celebrating them for the geniuses that they were. They weren’t perfect, but they believed that we could become a more perfect union.”

“Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb,” he said. “And that’s why I am announcing today that I am running for president of the United States of America.”