share 4,000 generations what america has done for me, she can do for you. this can t be another presidential campaign. we don t have time for that. we need a president who persuades not just our friends and our base, we need a president the persuades. we have to do that with common sense. and conservative principles, but we have to have a compassion for people. 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 to 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. i am living proof that god and a good family in the united states of america can do all things if we believe. will you believe it with me? [cheers and applause] will you join the team of the greatest nation on god s green earth? [cheers and applause]
and i think that he is a messenger that carries one of hope and vision. harris: a redemption story, america, talk about us book. i recently read that and so as he said to the audience, he said, look, a lot of you already know the story. i m going to tell it again. and he told it like he never told it before and even you are saying i ve heard this before, but i don t know. it has a little something on it. but that last part you just said about the democrats being worried, i have to say, i am a little shocked that this was not game-out in terms of the research when they toyed with new hampshire to put south carolina first, not only do you take on two republican declared candidates, but a black man in the south who has a lot of support based on the politically neutral things that he says like loving god, loving country, service, military service, and those things that patriotically unite us all, do
reporter: and journalist guy trammell, with whom she shares twice-monthly column. when you re sharing the stories you get to know each other. i had this idea anyway about doing a column from a white perspective and trying to match it with somebody doing it from a black perspective. color is connected runs in the the paper covering amy s community, south berwick, maine. they became sister cities with the predominantly black city. hospitality returned in maine. what has this relationship meant to you? this is one opportunity to actually bring people together instead of a divided states, we re the united states. reporter: there s no politics in the columns. guy and amy simply share a slice of life from the perspective a black man in the south, a white woman in the north. so now we feel like we re
i think that s a totally fair point. and i would say two things. one is, african-americans are a constituency in this country that joets overwhelmingly in one direction. so there s something statistically, you know, salient about black conservatives, just because it is unusual in the distribution. there s no real analog for it in american politics. the other thing i would say is if this were a black man in the south and a democrat, it would be interesting to me, too. to me what s as interesting for him being a republican is that this is south carolina. this is the american south. the heart of dixie. this is a whole heck of a lot about where the republican party is headed and where it knows it needs to get and get back to that 10%. i don t think it says any of that. let s just slow down for a minute. i m happy for tim scott as an individual. but tim scott s policies are no different than jim demint s and at the end of the day, this is a