<p>Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC), a 2024 presidential candidate, rejected former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a>&#8216;s critique of his view on race relations.</p>
<p>Obama, the first black American to be elected president, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/obama-calls-haley-scott-downplaying-racial-inequality-rcna89832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a recent <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/axe-files-barack-obama/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN podcast</a> that voters should be skeptical of GOP candidates who lack a plan to address the consequences of hundreds of years of racism.</p>
<p>Taking aim at Scott, the Senate&#8217;s lone black Republican member, and Nikki Haley, a GOP presidential candidate of Indian heritage, Obama argued there is a &#8220;history&#8221; of Republican candidates who &#8220;validate&#8221; the United States without a proper reckoning of the past.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Shannon Bream, who was interviewing Scott, noted that the senator has opened up about being <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/tim-scott-capitol-racism-senate-225507" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially profiled</a>, including by law enforcement inside the U.S. Capitol. She asked whether his own experiences underscore Obama&#8217;s point that racism is a prevalent issue, even for minorities who succeed today in the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;Whenever the Democrats feel threatened, they drag out the former president and have him make some negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down,&#8221; he added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">2024 GOP candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reacts to Obama’s comments on him and race: </p>
<p>&quot;There&#39;s no higher compliment to be attacked by President Obama &#8230; The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/o5b9mN7yxI">pic.twitter.com/o5b9mN7yxI</a></p>
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<p>Scott argued that the &#8220;truth&#8221; of his life &#8220;disproves the lies of the radical Left.&#8221;</p>
<p>He set his focus on the fight against poverty, referring to his work on <a href="https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/senator-scotts-opportunity-zones-drew-billions-of-investments-to-thousands-of-low-income-areas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Opportunity Zones</a>,&#8221; an effort to bring investments to low-income areas across the country. Scott said this endeavor had brought more than $50 billion to &#8220;go into the poorest, hardest hit communities in this country. The majority of them are minority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Scott also talked about funding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), quipping that Obama &#8220;totally missed it&#8221; during his administration. Scott boasted of boosting funding for HBCUs and making it &#8220;permanent&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with a bill</a> signed by former President Donald Trump in 2019.</p>
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<p>Another point centered on school choice: &#8220;The radical Left and the teachers unions refuse to allow quality education in big blue cities. I support school choice because I support common sense,&#8221; Scott said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The radical Left and President Obama: They have failed, they have failed, and they have failed,&#8221; Scott said.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, Scott said that if elected president, his administration &#8220;will make sure that kids have quality education in every single zip code. We’ll work on &#8216;Opportunity Zones 2.0&#8217; to make sure that we bring more resources, more opportunities, and more jobs to the hardest hit areas, whether that’s rural Iowa or inner-city Chicago.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a way for us to alleviate poverty, not by a race, but by the statistics themselves,&#8221; Scott added. &#8220;That’s what America stands for. If anyone should be standing and shouting at the mountaintops that America is not a racist country, it should be the man that Americans supported twice for the nomination and becoming president.&#8221;</p>
<p>He concluded: &#8220;The evolution of America is palpable. Progress in this nation, undeniable.&#8221;</p>

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