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Republican US Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
He told Fox News: "I think the voters, who are the most prominent people on the planet, have made it really clear that they're saying to me, 'Not now Tim.'
Although Tim Scott was initially very well funded, he failed to make a noticeable impact in the opinion polls.
He did not support any of the remaining candidates and ruled out the possibility of running for vice president. Scott has been a senator since 2013.
Former President Donald Trump has a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in opinion polls. Senator Scott's decision came just two months before the Iowa caucuses.
A recent CBS News/YouGov poll estimated he had just 4% of voter support, putting him in fifth place in the Republican race and trailing Trump.
Several major donors who supported Scott say they are now shifting their allegiance to former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who is also from South Carolina. She was widely seen as a better performer than Scott in the televised Republican debates. Trump did not attend.
After entering the race in May for the Republican nomination, Scott, 58, presented himself as a deeply conservative candidate who could do a better job of healing US political divisions than Mr Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .
The only black man to ever serve in both houses of Congress, Scott is the grandson of a cotton worker and the son of a single mother, and he has often spoken of how his family rose "from cotton to Congress" throughout life.
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