Rolling Stone Menu Tim Scott Resorts to Twisted, Cynical Logic to Defend GOP Voter Suppression
Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal of Biden’s speech amplified the dark logic at the heart of the GOP’s war on voting rights
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WASHINGTON Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who delivered the Republican rebuttal to President Biden’s first formal address to Congress on Wednesday, has often been touted as a conscience of the Republican caucus, one of the few black leaders in his party and a senator well-liked on both sides of the aisle. He helped sink the nomination of a Trump-era judicial nominee who had supported black voter-suppression efforts. He introduced legislation to expand the use of body cameras after a police officer shot and killed Walter Scott in 2015, and he put forward an even more substantive police-reform bill last year after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. (Democrats filibustered Scott’s most recent measure, calling it i
Read Republican Sen. Tim Scott s response to Biden s address to Congress By: CNN South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott gives the Republican response to President Biden s address to Congress. (CNN) South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden s address to Congress Wednesday night. Read his remarks as prepared for delivery: Good evening. I m Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina. We just heard President Biden s first address to Congress. Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott slammed the Democratic Party after users on Twitter hurled a racial slur at him following his response to President Joe Biden s address to Congress that trended on Twitter. It has been an amazing morning with so many good people calling, but the Left has doubled down, Scott said during a Fox News appearance Thursday after he gave the Republican response to Biden s speech the night before. They are not going to attack my policies. They are literally attacking the color of my skin. You cannot step out of your lane according to the liberal-elite Left.
Following Scott s speech, the term Uncle Tim began trending on Twitter as opponents spread the phrase in reference to the racial epithet Uncle Tom. Twitter has since stopped the phrase from trending.
Apr 29, 2021
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott delivered the Republican response following President Biden s remarks to the joint session of Congress.
It was a fantastic speech.
Here’s what he said:
Good evening. I m Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.
We just heard President Biden s first address to Congress. Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words.
But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted.
That was the pitch. You just heard it again.