Sen. Tim Scott’s Presidential Announcement Is A Real Scream

Senator Tim Scott (RS.C.) announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday, and it sounds like his speech was a real whoop, literally.

At a couple of points during the speech, Scott made some weird noises that remind people of the former presidential candidate. Howard DeanThe 2004 scream that supposedly hurt his own candidacy.

At the start of his speech, Scott came out and yelled, “Hello, North Charleston,” only to have his voice crack at the end.

She then danced to center stage before quipping: “Obviously I can’t dance, you already knew that.”

As the video above shows, Scott also experienced a glitch. when his microphone went off during his speechforcing him to wait until a substitute microphone could be delivered.

“Let’s see if this works. Alright,” he said. “But under Joe Biden, our nation is not a nation in decline, but under Joe Biden, we have become a nation in retreat.”

By the time Scott got to the point in his speech where he actually announced his career, he sounded more like wrestling announcer Michael Buffer, famous for the catchphrase “Let’s get ready to rummmmmble!”

According RealClearPolicyScott is only voting 1.8 percent among Republicans, so he was probably hoping a good speech would jumpstart his campaign.

However, it seems that Twitter users were mainly focused on his scream and many people made direct connections to Dean’s scream in 2004.

Scott’s campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment, but you can see how Twitter users reacted below.