Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott">Tim Scott</a> (R-S.C.) fired back at &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday after several of the ABC show&#8217;s liberal co-hosts leveled racially-charged attacks against him.
Scott, who recently made an official announcement declaring his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was responding to a segment from Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, during which white co-host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-whitesplains-racism-to-actual-black-americans-tim-scott-and-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> had claimed that neither Scott nor black conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas &#8220;understood&#8221; what it was really like to be black in America.
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White woman Joy Behar declares that Justice Clarence Thomas and Sen. Tim Scott have no clue what it&#39;s like to be a black man in America. &quot;[They believe] in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, rather than understanding the racism that African Americans face in this country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zIFFge8YrV">pic.twitter.com/zIFFge8YrV</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1661029548312412160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;[Tim Scott] is one of these guys who — you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas — a black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence, and that’s why they’re Republicans.&#8221;
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg agreed with Behar&#8217;s assessment, saying that Scott had &#8220;Clarence Thomas Syndrome.&#8221; Sunny Hostin complained that Scott assumed other black Americans could make it because he had — and she argued that was not the case.
But Scott <a href="https://hannity.com/media-room/living-proof-tim-scott-fires-back-at-ladies-of-the-view-my-life-disproves-the-lefts-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News</a> there was &#8220;no question my life disproves the lies of the radical Left&#8221; — and he argued that contrary to what Hostin had claimed, he was an example of the rule rather than the exception.
Citing his grandfather – an illiterate cotton field worker – Scott said he was told growing up, &#8220;You can be bitter or better, but you can&#8217;t be both.&#8221;
&#8220;Meekness is not weakness. I believe in the Gospel. I believe Matthew 5:44 says ‘Love your enemies&#8217; &#8212; [but] if you break in my house, I also believe in the Second Amendment,&#8221; Scott said.
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&#8220;We have to ignore the far Left by disproving their lies by our actions. Here&#8217;s the funny thing: The host, Sunny, she wants to be judged by the content of her character, not the color of her skin. The fact of the matter is America is a story of evolution – a never told story of evolution in too many of our schools that are indoctrinating our kids instead of educating our kids.&#8221;
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Joy Behar took a moment on Tuesday to &#8220;whitesplain&#8221; racism to two prominent black conservatives – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
Behar, who is white, made the comments during ABC&#8217;s midday broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; and she argued that neither Thomas nor Scott – who had just announced his 2024 presidential campaign a day earlier – truly knew what it was like to be a black man in the United States of America.
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White woman Joy Behar declares that Justice Clarence Thomas and Sen. Tim Scott have no clue what it&#39;s like to be a black man in America. &quot;[They believe] in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, rather than understanding the racism that African Americans face in this country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zIFFge8YrV">pic.twitter.com/zIFFge8YrV</a>
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&#8220;[Tim Scott] is one of these guys who — you know, he&#8217;s like Clarence Thomas — a black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities.&#8221;
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t get it,&#8221; she continued, adding, &#8220;Neither does Clarence, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re Republicans.&#8221;
Co-host Sunny Hostin, who is biracial, agreed, and the audience laughed. Both Hostin and Behar have attacked Thomas previously – Hostin claimed that the black conservative Justice did not really &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-clarence-the-view-trots-out-racist-trope-claiming-justice-clarence-thomas-doesnt-really-represent-the-black-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represent</a>&#8221; the black community, and Behar accused him of being &#8220;to the right of Attila the Hun.&#8221;
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg had also recently gone after both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-issues-warning-to-scotus-justice-you-better-hope-that-they-dont-come-for-you-clarence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas</a> and Scott as well. Just after the Supreme Court delivered the Dobbs decision overturning the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, Goldberg suggested that interracial marriages might be next on the chopping block. &#8220;You better hope they don&#8217;t come for you, Clarence,&#8221; she said, noting that Thomas is married to a white woman.
Several months later, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-should-get-to-know-me-tim-scott-mocks-whoopi-goldberg-for-confusing-him-with-rick-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldberg</a> joked that she couldn&#8217;t tell the difference between Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Rick Scott (R-FL) without a visual aid.
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&#8220;We do deserve to have two strong parties,&#8221; Goldberg said during a discussion about former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) announcing a 2024 presidential bid. “So, you know, Tim Scott, black Tim Scott, right? Because there are two Scotts and I don’t know how to differentiate them without a picture. Rick Scott and Tim Scott. Tim Scott is black, right? Okay &#8230; He’s about to run — announce he’s running.&#8221;
Scott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-opens-his-presidential-bid-in-hometown-speech-bashing-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially announced</a> his candidacy on Monday.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-unvaccinated-girl-denied-kidney-transplant-by-duke-shares-huge-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mother Of Unvaccinated Girl Denied Kidney Transplant By Duke Shares Huge Update</a>
In a Daily Wire exclusive, the mother of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Yulia Hicks</a> – a child who was denied a kidney transplant by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Duke Children’s Hospital</a> last year – has confirmed that Yulia will finally be receiving the life-saving operation at another North Carolina hospital. The teen has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a transplant, but her family said last year that Duke was refusing to put Yulia on the kidney wait list because she is unvaccinated against COVID. The family says Yulia has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-study-natural-immunity-beats-vax-against-delta-variant">already recovered from having the virus</a>. Yulia’s mother Chrissy Hicks spoke to Morning Wire.
&#8220;We are eternally indebted to her generous live donor,&#8221; Hicks said. &#8220;Thank you again for all of your thoughts and prayers.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/send-migrants-to-the-cities-villages-towns-across-america-so-its-not-a-burden-on-nyc-mayor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams Wants To Ship Illegal Aliens Around The Country</a>
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has a new proposal for dealing with migrants crossing the border, and it involves the federal government dispersing them across America. 
Adams said this week that instead of New York City having to bear the burden of housing, feeding, and supporting the mass influx of migrants, the federal government needs to do more to direct them across the entire United States.
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New York City has seen an influx of more than 55,000 illegal aliens since the spring of 2022, and 35,000 of those <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/nyregion/adams-biden-migrants.html">are receiving services from the city</a>. 
<a href="https://www.komu.com/news/nationworld/judge-enters-not-guilty-pleas-on-behalf-of-bryan-kohberger-charged-in-idaho-student-murders/article_04e79b0a-6646-5fc4-b404-56bb37f0733e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alleged Idaho Killer Arraigned</a>
The man accused of murdering four University of Idaho undergraduate students, appeared in court for his arraignment today. In court, the alleged murderer smiled at his attorney and sat in silence as she said her client would &#8220;be standing silent.&#8221; Standing silent means the defendant does not enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, but has the same outcome of pleading not guilty. The highly anticipated trial is set for October 2. 

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-opens-his-presidential-bid-in-hometown-speech-bashing-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott Enters 2024 Race</a>
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) announced his candidacy for president of the United States today at a rally in North Charleston.
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On the Republican side, Scott joins former President Donald Trump, former United Nations ambassador and fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as notable names in the race so far. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-hit-with-massive-fine-over-data-privacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EU Fines Meta Record Amount $1.3 Billion</a>
The European Union has fined Meta, Facebook’s parent company, a record $1.3 billion for data privacy violations. The Irish Data Protection Commission found that Meta had been illicitly transferring user data from Europe to the U.S. The Commission said that they were in breach of the E.U. &#8216;s General Data Protection Regulation. Meta’s European headquarters are in Dublin.
Debt Negotiations Update
With the clock ticking, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is set to meet with President Biden this evening to continue negotiations over raising the debt ceiling. After a weekend of turbulent, on-again-off-again talks, Democrats and Republicans will try to hash out an agreement on how to pay the nation’s bills. Economist Kenny Polcari says a default is extremely unlikely. 
&#8220;What I think is irresponsible is the inflammatory language &#8230; that the Treasury Secretary uses,&#8221; Polcari told The Daily Wire. &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s apocalyptic, it&#8217;s cataclysmic, it&#8217;s a disaster, it&#8217;s unprecedented,&#8217; and all those words do nothing but create anxiety in the markets and anxiety in investors. And that&#8217;s why I think it&#8217;s irresponsible, because Janet Yellen — of all people — knows and understands. The U.S. is not defaulting on any of its debt.&#8221; 
L.A. Dodgers Face Backlash From LGBT Activists After Canceling On Drag Queens
The Los Angeles Dodgers are facing backlash from LGBT activists after rescinding their invitation to The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night celebration, saying the troupe’s presence would not be in alignment with a “spirit of unity.”
 The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a decades-old activist group that parodies Catholic nuns in drag attire, which critics say mocks Catholicism. As a result of the rescinded invitation, L.A. Pride has pulled out of the annual Dodgers pride night event.
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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-opens-his-presidential-bid-in-hometown-speech-bashing-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-S.C.) formally announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, and Washington Post reporter Ben Terris chose that moment to reflect on asking the unmarried senator whether he is a virgin.
Terris used the moment in part to sell his upcoming book — &#8220;The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind&#8221; — and shared a brief anecdote about Scott on Twitter.
&#8220;Tim Scott will be the first prez candidate I’ve ever asked about the status of his virginity. Initial answer: &#8216;I’m not talking about my sex life with Ben Terris.&#8217; Then he stood up and said: &#8216;I have to go potty,'&#8221; Terris tweeted.
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(It wasn’t a completely random question. He had spent his young adult life preaching abstinence until marriage. He’d give talks and mention that he was saving himself until marriage, and during my interview with the then-congressman he was, and continues to be unmarried.)
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Terris went on to explain that he had only asked the question because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott</a> has always been a vocal proponent of abstinence outside of marriage. And since Scott has never been married himself, he wanted to know whether the senator – who was then still a congressman – had followed his own advice.
&#8220;(It wasn’t a completely random question. He had spent his young adult life preaching abstinence until marriage. He’d give talks and mention that he was saving himself until marriage, and during my interview with the then-congressman he was, and continues to be unmarried),&#8221; Terris added.
He followed that up with a plug for his book – and went on to explain further that he had done his best to try to make the conversation less awkward.
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One more thing… It was such an awkward question to ask that I wrote myself a script: You used to preach about the virtue of no sex until marriage… is that a virtue that you still adhere to today?”
Ultimately he implied he did not.
“I just wish we all had more patience.”
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&#8220;One more thing … It was such an awkward question to ask that I wrote myself a script: &#8216;You used to preach about the virtue of no sex until marriage … is that a virtue that you still adhere to today?&#8217; Ultimately he implied he did not: &#8216;I just wish we all had more patience,'&#8221; he quoted Scott as answering.
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Newsbusters executive editor Tim Graham responded to Terris with a question of his own, tweeting, &#8220;Dear Ben, did you ever ask Bill Clinton how many interns he nailed? Of course not. Ben Terris (D-Washington Post).&#8221;

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South Carolina Republican Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> announced his entry into the 2024 presidential election on Monday, smacking President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> while touting his own up-from-poverty story.
The 57-year-old opened his campaign in a morning speech from his alma mater, Charleston Southern University, in his hometown of North Charleston. Scott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-enters-race-for-the-white-house-fec-filing-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> paperwork with the Federal Election Commission making his presidential bid official last week.
In his announcement address, Scott hit on themes common to his recent public remarks as he explored making a run at the White House. He focused his attacks on Biden while casting America as a land of opportunity for those willing to take chances.
“Our nation, our values, and our people are strong. But our President is weak,” Scott said, according to his prepared remarks. “America is not a nation in decline. But under Joe Biden, we have become a nation in retreat. Retreating from our heritage and our history. Retreating from personal responsibility and hard work. Retreating from strength and security. Even retreating from religious liberty and the worship of God himself.”
“This is the freest and fairest land. Where you and I can go as high as our character, our grit, and our talent will take us,” he continued. “Our party and our nation are standing at a time for choosing. Victimhood or victory? Grievance or greatness? I choose freedom and hope and opportunity.”
Scott joins a growing field of GOP hopefuls currently led by former President Donald Trump. The field also includes talk radio host Larry Elder, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Scott has lagged in polls up to this point, garnering around 2% support.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running closest to Trump, with the rest of the field trailing far behind. DeSantis is expected to officially join the race this week.
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Scott joins the contest with $22 million cash on hand, a strong start for launching a White House bid. He has already reserved $6 million in ads to run in New Hampshire and Iowa.
Scott began his career in national politics in 2010 with his election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Two years later, Haley, when she was governor of the state, appointed him to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy left by former Sen. Jim DeMint after he retired.

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South Carolina Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> has filed paperwork to run for president of the United States, according to a Federal Election Commission filing.
The filing comes ahead of Scott’s formal announcement, expected to take place on Monday in South Carolina, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/politics/tim-scott-president-fec-filing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.
Scott will enter the presidential race with about $22 million cash on hand, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/tim-scott-republican-president-2024.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. He has so far lagged in the polls, hovering around 2% and far behind the leading GOP primary contender, former President Donald Trump.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is also leading Scott by a significant margin, though DeSantis has yet to officially enter the race for the White House.
After his official campaign launch, Scott is expected to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire, the sites of the first two GOP primary contests. Scott has <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/19/tim-scott-sets-6-million-ad-buy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reserved</a> a roughly $6 million ad buy to run in both states starting next week, according to Axios. The ads are scheduled to run through the first GOP presidential debate scheduled for August.
Scott has signaled his interest in making a White House run for months. In his public remarks, he has delivered an optimistic message that plays off his own background, coming from poverty to being the first black senator from South Carolina.
“Americans are losing one of the most inspirational truths we have, which is hope — hope that things can and will get better, hope that education and hard work can equal prosperity, hope that we remain a city on a hill, a shining example of what can be when free people decide to join hands in self-governance,” Scott said last year in a speech at the Reagan Library.
“America stands at a crossroads,” he said, “with the potential for a great resetting, a renewal, even a rebirth — where we get to choose how we will meet the potential of today and the promise of tomorrow.”
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Scott’s FEC filing propels him into a growing crowd of GOP contenders that also includes talk radio host Larry Elder, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolin Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur and woke capital crusader Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dianne-feinstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-CA) confused a black Republican colleague for a black Democrat in the Senate, according to a new report.
Ben Terris, a Washington Post writer and author, shared on Thursday what a Senate staffer recalls witnessing in an interaction between Feinstein and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC), the sole black Republican member of the Senate who is now <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-president-republican-2024-cf670ab5b247ebff2ada04a5a989ec75" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moving toward a presidential bid</a>, sometime after Georgia&#8217;s January 2021 runoff elections.
&#8220;Feinstein had approached Senator Tim Scott, stuck out her hand, and told him she had been rooting for him and was so happy to have him serving with her in the Senate,&#8221; Terris reported in a story <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/11/dear-white-staffers-dianne-feinstein-00096238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published by POLITICO</a>.
&#8220;It was obvious to Scott and the staffers in tow that Feinstein had mistaken the South Carolinian for Raphael Warnock, the newly elected Democratic senator from Georgia,&#8221; Terris added. &#8220;Scott had played along. &#8216;Thank you so much,&#8217; he had told Feinstein, according to the staffer who told me about the incident. &#8216;Your support means a lot.'&#8221;
The report noted that Feinstein&#8217;s office declined to comment on the anecdote.
Feinstein, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dianne-feinstein-not-running-for-re-election-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced in February</a> she would not seek re-election in 2024, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-returns-to-senate-in-wheelchair-needs-lighter-schedule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned to Capitol Hill</a> on Wednesday, ending a months-long absence as she dealt with a case of shingles. Feinstein showed up to the Senate in a wheelchair and said her doctors recommended that she work a &#8220;lighter schedule&#8221; as she continues to recover.
At the age of 89, Feinstein is the Senate’s oldest member — and in recent years, some colleagues have begun to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raise concerns</a> about her mental fitness.
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Much of the report by Terris focused on Jamarcus Purley, a staffer whom Feinstein fired in 2022. While a termination letter cited performance issues, Purley reportedly thought he was being punished for telling &#8220;hard truths&#8221; about the senator.
The report noted that perhaps one of the &#8220;most memorable&#8221; comments Purley made to colleagues was his view that Feinstein cared &#8220;more about her dog, Kirby, than she does about black people.&#8221;
When told about Feinstein mistaking Scott for Warnock, Terris wrote that Purley leaped out of his chair and shouted: &#8220;This is what I&#8217;m talking about!&#8221;

Dianne Feinstein

Feinstein Mistook Black GOP Senate Colleague For Black Democrat: Report

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MSNBC guest Tara Setmayer launched a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uncle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-charged attack</a> at Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC), who is black, claiming that his presidential run would go nowhere and referring to him as a &#8220;racial pacifier&#8221; and a &#8220;racial security blanket.&#8221;
Setmayer, a senior adviser with the Lincoln Project, joined MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on his &#8220;Saturday Show&#8221; — and she weighed in on the recent <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/sen-tim-scott-speaks-to-nbc-news-after-launching-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee-170310725719" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soft launch</a> of Scott&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign.
&#8220;I find Senator Scott fascinating, a black Republican who isn’t too shy in talking about race, but whose views on race can be problematic both within the GOP and in the general public.&#8221; Capehart began, asking, &#8220;So, I mean, am I giving him too much credit?&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, Tim Scott, bless his heart, is trying to make a name for himself now, taking advantage of the fact that Republicans every election cycle need a racial pacifier,&#8221; Setmayer said. &#8220;He’s their racial security blanket in the race.&#8221;
Setmayer immediately pivoted to former President Donald Trump, claiming that Republicans had failed to &#8220;diversify the tent&#8221; and adding, &#8220;They went in the complete opposite direction. But the one constant has been good ole Senator Tim Scott, the lone black Republican in the Senate.&#8221;
She went on to say that she respected Senator Scott&#8217;s life story, but not the fact that he had supported Trump and voted to acquit him after the January 6th-related impeachment.
&#8220;That I have no respect for. None whatsoever. I have no respect for someone that cannot take a firm position on where he stands on our democracy. On Donald Trump’s existential threat to it,&#8221; Setmayer continued. &#8220;I mean, the 1990s called and they want their campaign video back. There’s nothing extraordinary about what Tim Scott is doing. I mean, he’s a big snooze and he has no chance. None whatsoever. Zip, zero.&#8221;
Following some backlash over the racially-charged nature of her comments, Setmayer complained about all the &#8220;hate-filled msgs&#8221; that were flooding her inbox and doubled down on her comments, claiming the GOP had been &#8220;TRIGGERED.&#8221;
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My comments on <a href="https://twitter.com/weekendcapehart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@weekendcapehart</a> about Sen Tim Scott being a “racial security blanket” for the GOP has TRIGGERED them! So many hate filled msgs since this segment 🤷🏽‍♀️ 
The truth has a way of doing that. 
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MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott A ‘Racial Pacifier’ And ‘Security Blanket’ For Republicans

MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott A 'Racial Pacifier' And 'Security Blanket' For Republicans

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racist

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC) condemned the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> for implementing <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">energy</a> efficiency standards for mobile homes in a rule that will increase <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costs</a> for low-income households.
Officials from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Energy Department</a> adopted a new <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/31/2022-10926/energy-conservation-program-energy-conservation-standards-for-manufactured-housing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> last year that requires single-section and multi-section mobile homes to meet new climate-dependent energy conservation measures. The new standards are estimated to raise the cost of large mobile homes between $4,100 and $4,500, marking a significant increase from the $81,400 average costs for newly manufactured mobile homes, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPSNSAUS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Census Bureau.
Scott, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, wrote in a <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/scott_letter_to_granholm1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm that the new policy will continue to “raise costs for families” seeking affordable homeownership opportunities in a constrained housing market. He added that the standards are “overly broad, unduly burdensome, and undermine commonsense efforts to increase supply and assist families looking for affordable housing opportunities” even as they ask consumers to “bear the costs imposed by climate alarmists.”
Energy Department officials have meanwhile asserted that the final rule will save mobile home residents over time as they pay less for power. The standards call for more stringent duct and air sealing, insulation, and hot water system specifications.
“Manufactured housing is truly one of the best opportunities for helping families realize the dream of homeownership, accounting for roughly six percent of housing stock and being the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the country,” Scott continued. “I ask that you immediately delay implementation of this rule to provide hard-working families relief from this costly and misguided regulation.”
The Biden administration, which has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> a “whole-of-government effort” to reduce carbon emissions and incentivize green energy production, drafted a number of similar regulations over the past two years. Officials have introduced new emissions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-unveils-new-restrictions-on-air-conditioners-despite-backlash-over-gas-stove-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> for household appliances such as gas stoves; Granholm nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/energy-secretary-granholm-admits-she-has-a-gas-stove-while-justifying-push-to-regulate-appliances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that she personally owns one of the popular appliances.
Controversy over the potential regulations on gas stoves emerged earlier this year when Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transparently-political-biden-administration-considering-ban-on-gas-stoves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that the products constitute a “hidden hazard” and declared that “any option is on the table” for a nationwide prohibition. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Alex Hoehn-Saric later posted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regulatory-agency-backs-down-says-there-are-no-plans-to-ban-gas-stoves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> asserting that neither he nor the agency planned to outlaw gas stoves.
The new standards for mobile homes come after residential real estate prices increased substantially in the years following the lockdown-induced recession, which caused supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages that increased the cost of properties. Home sale prices increased from $322,600 in the second quarter of 2020 to $467,700 in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Elevated mortgage rates induced by actions from the Federal Reserve to combat inflation, on the other hand, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/home-prices-fell-year-over-year-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-but-theres-a-massive-catch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused</a> the first year-over-year decline in median home prices in more than a decade even as properties become less affordable. Apartment rental markets are meanwhile seeing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-typical-apartment-is-getting-smaller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decreases</a> in typical unit sizes, indicating pressure from the cost constraints and a reversal from the desire for larger properties that corresponded with lockdowns as households spent more time in their homes and breadwinners relied more on remote work.

‘Climate Alarmists’: Senator Tim Scott Blasts Energy Department Over New Power Standards For Certain Homes

Senator Tim Scott Blasts Energy Department Over New Power Standards For Certain Homes

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Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> introduced legislation to codify a rule protecting the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/first-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freedom</a> for <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/religion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">religious</a> groups to assemble on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college</a> campuses as the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> seeks to reverse them.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/factsheetreligiouslibertyandfreeiInquiry09032020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the Religious Liberty and Free Inquiry Rule three years ago in order to ensure that public universities do not deny religious student organizations “any right, benefit, or privilege,” such as student activities funding and access to campus facilities, “that is otherwise afforded to other student organizations at the public institution.” Universities which are found in violation of such rights risk losing federal grants under the current rule; the Biden administration, however, proposed a <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-03670/direct-grant-programs-state-administered-formula-grant-programs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversal</a> of the rule last month.
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and 14 other Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-challenges-bidens-unconstitutional-attack-against-religious-student-groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the Equal Campus Access Act to enshrine the current rule into federal law. The lawmakers contended in a <a href="https://www.lankford.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/lankford_challenges_bidens_unconstitutional_attack_against_faith-based_student_groups.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona that reversing the rule would leave religious student groups open to violations of First Amendment liberties.
“Student organizations, including religious ones, play an important role on campus and in the lives of college students. Unfortunately, the proposed rule threatens students’ ability to grow and learn while practicing and observing their respective faiths,” the letter said. “Students desire organized fellowship on college campuses to learn and practice their faith with like-minded students. They should be afforded the same rights as any other student organization on campus, not discriminated against merely because of their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
The Education Department asserted that the previous rule should be reversed because the policy is “not necessary” to protect free speech and free exercise of religion, tends to create “confusion among institutions,” and prescribes an “unduly burdensome role” for officials to investigate allegations of mistreatment. The lawmakers countered that the Education Department has failed to “provide any examples” of universities formally complaining about the confusing nature of the rules and asserted that calling the protection of religious freedom “unduly burdensome” represents an “alarming admission” from the agency.
Prominent nationwide religious organizations, such as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Reformed University Fellowship, and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, recently drafted their own <a href="https://www.lankford.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_of_support.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> in support of the Equal Campus Access Act. “The right to assemble together based on religiously informed beliefs is foundational to a free and truly pluralistic society,” the entities wrote.
The proposed rule reversal is one of several Biden administration policies that critics consider a threat to religious liberty. House Republicans pushed earlier this week to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-call-for-budget-to-prevent-discrimination-toward-groups-affirming-marriage-is-between-one-man-and-one-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guarantee</a> that the text of the forthcoming federal budget prohibits agencies from taking discriminatory action against people or organizations on the basis of a “sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman.”
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The call for explicit religious liberty protections in the budget comes after President Joe Biden endorsed the Respect for Marriage Act, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-controlled-house-passes-same-sex-marriage-bill-39-republicans-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enshrines</a> same-sex marriage protections into federal law in accordance with the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Democratic lawmakers recruited 39 Republicans in the House and 10 Republicans in the Senate to support the bill, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-same-sex-marriage-bill-drag-queens-invited-to-lavish-wh-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> law in December.

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GOP Senators Lead Charge Against Biden Trying To Nix Rule Protecting Campus Religious Groups

Republican Senators Blast Biden For Trying To End Rule Protecting Campus Religious Groups

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First Amendment

James Lankford

Religion

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Trump Administration

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) laid out the message that he wants to convey to Americans — ahead of a potential 2024 presidential bid — that the vision that the left is selling to Americans is one of grievances.
Scott made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Fox News host Shannon Bream on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;
&#8220;In today&#8217;s society, the progressive left is trying to make America into grievance culture when in fact we&#8217;ve always stood on the foundation of greatness,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our original sin should never define us because the story of redemption is what we&#8217;ve been living through more than 50-plus years. The greatest story of progress in the world is American progress in the last 50 years. I wish we&#8217;d spend more time talking about the goodness of this nation and stop the cancel culture.&#8221;
&#8220;We have to be able to contrast between why we are a great country and why the left wants us to talk about the grievance,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;The fact is that the left is trying to sell a drug of victimhood and a narcotic of despair.&#8221;
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Sen. Tim Scott: &quot;The fact is that the left is trying to sell a drug of victimhood and a narcotic of despair. The truth is that we have so much to celebrate and yet today in many parts of the country you feel like you&#39;re in quicksand.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/60ESdcHY3Q">pic.twitter.com/60ESdcHY3Q</a>
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<blockquote>SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So, joining us now to discuss his potential White House run, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
Senator, welcome back to &#8220;FOX News Sunday&#8221;.
SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Good morning, Shannon. I hope you&#8217;re doing well.
BREAM: I am. I hope you are as well. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re a bit jetlagged because you spent a lot of time in Iowa and that&#8217;s gotten a lot of notice. You&#8217;ve been testing a message there.
Do you now see a lane for you in the 2024 GOP primary?
SCOTT: You know, Shannon, more importantly than a lane for me is, do we have lane for young kids growing up in single-parent households like I did? Looking at moms, single mothers who are working 16 hours a day like my mom did, can we make sure the lane to the American Dream is wide open for them?
I spent the day with Governor Reynolds who just passed monumental school choice reform, a powerful tool to make sure that parents have a choice and kids have a chance.
So, my focus is still on the mission of making sure that every single American believes that the American Dream is achievable for them.
BREAM: So, you talk with an optimistic message, and we talked about how you are highlighting faith not only in the religious sense, but that you want Americans to have faith in each other.
I want to put up our recent FOX News poll &#8212;
SCOTT: Yes.
BREAM: &#8212; about how Americans feel about things today. They say, we are dysfunctional family, 81 percent of them.
Is it realistic to believe that you or any other politician can get us out of our corners and get people back to a place where there isn&#8217;t so much division?
SCOTT: There&#8217;s no doubt, Shannon, that when you look at that poll, that&#8217;s one of the reasons why I think it&#8217;s really important for us to come forward and have an authentic and sincere conversation about the goodness of America. In today&#8217;s society, the progressive left is trying to make America into grievance culture when in fact we&#8217;ve always stood on the foundation of greatness.
Our original sin should never define us because the story of redemption is what we&#8217;ve been living through more than 50-plus years. The greatest story of progress in the world is American progress in the last 50 years. I wish we&#8217;d spend more time talking about the goodness of this nation and stop the cancel culture.
BREAM: OK. Let&#8217;s talk about this positive message in talking about things like cancel culture. Will it work?
&#8220;The New York Times&#8221; says this about your assets being optimistic and possibly history-making as the nominee. Both of those assets could prove to be a liability in today&#8217;s Republican primary environment where voters rail against what they see is unfair favoritism toward people of color and where activists may be more interested in anger than optimism.
Everybody says they hate negative ads. They don&#8217;t like the political sniping. But the numbers show us they actually worked.
So, will this optimistic message work?
SCOTT: Well, certainly, I think it&#8217;s always worked. I mean, America is a country founded on the concept of hope.
Think about it this way &#8212; a world without America is a very dark place. America without faith is a nation without hope. So we definitely have to continue to work on the foundation that we have stood upon for the last 250-plus years.
But in addition to that, we have to be able to contrast between why we are a great country and why the left wants us to talk about the grievance. The fact is that the left is trying to sell a drug of victimhood and a narcotic of despair.
The truth is we have so much to celebrate and yet today, in many parts of the country, you feel like you&#8217;re in quicksand. We should not allow the zip code of a child to determine the quality of their life because education is the most powerful tool to equalize opportunity in this nation. But there are poor zip codes where that&#8217;s not possible.
We have to do something about that as one American family and, frankly, governors like Kim Reynolds and others are starting to take that responsibility, and prove that we as the GOP, the great opportunity party, we love America, we love our kids, and frankly, we are the best hope for a united future.
BREAM: OK. I want to talk about school choice in a minute but a couple of other things about your &#8212;
SCOTT: Yes, ma&#8217;am.
BREAM: &#8212; trip to Iowa.
So, not everybody thought your message was uplifting, including this one reporter from &#8220;The New York Magazine&#8217;s&#8221; &#8220;Intelligencer&#8221;. He says this: It&#8217;s hard to recall a more stridently asserted expression of belief that the route to national peace and unity requires the subjugation of one party by the other, the Scott speech was a relentlessly partisan screed accusing Joe Biden and the left of pursuing a blueprint for ruining America.
So, how does that square with the message of us having faith in each other as Americans?
SCOTT: Well, Shannon, that&#8217;s a great question. And once again, it goes back to the contrast that is necessary. I&#8217;m a hopeful guy not because I didn&#8217;t have to overcome problems. I had a miserable beginning, growing up in a single-parent household mired in poverty, the challenges that I face from self-esteem to low grades were monumental.
I overcame those challenges with grit, hard work, and inspiration. And so, the truth is, the left today, they seem to be working on a blueprint on how to ruin America. If you wanted to ruin America, you would print and spend trillions of dollars leading to the highest inflation we&#8217;ve seen in 40 years.
Why is that negative to point out the fact that under Joe Biden&#8217;s leadership, we&#8217;ve had the highest inflation in 40 years? Why is it negative to point out that we&#8217;ve had four and a half million people across our southern border illegally? Why is it negative to point out the fact that we&#8217;ve had 100,000 deaths to overdoses linked to fentanyl thousands upon thousands of those deaths?
If we don&#8217;t understand the state of America and the weakness of the progressive movement, then it&#8217;s impossible for us to offer positive optimistic solutions to the challenges that we face because of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
BREAM: You touch there and you do often about your personal story. It&#8217;s very inspiriting and compelling to people whether they support you or not, but even your supporters say there has to been more.
An opinion piece very favorable to you says this: you&#8217;re a talented candidate finding your theme, but you have to be careful not to substitute first-person narrative for an argument about why he is the right person to lead the country.
So if you get in, what is the argument for you policy-wise versus President Trump or anybody else who gets into this field? How are you different or better than the other options?
SCOTT: Well, Shannon, one of the things I love to take time to talk about, I hope we have about 30 minutes left to have this conversation is the policy &#8212;
(LAUGHTER)
BREAM: Slightly less.
SCOTT: OK, it sounds good.
The policy positions that I&#8217;ve taken. One of the most important parts of being in the majority was the opportunity we have with the Tax and Cut and Jobs Act. I had the good fortune to be the lead sponsor of the TCJA on the personal side of the tax code.
So I had the opportunity to help write that specific legislation. And we&#8217;ve lowered their taxes for a single mom by 70 percent. We promised to put more than $4,000 back in the average family&#8217;s pocket, we ended up around $4,400.
We were able to lower unemployment for African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians to the lowest level in the history of the country and the lowest level since World War II for women.
We actually saw more money come to the Treasury with lower taxes than anyone imagined and at the exact same time, wages grew at the bottom faster than at the top.
I created opportunity zones, my signature legislation, that has seen more than $50 billion attack poverty in the hardest hit areas of the country.
At the same time I focused on education, I started the School Choice Caucus. We led to the highest level of funding for HBCUs In the history of the country and then we made it permanent.
I led on the vast majority of those pieces of legislation, I&#8217;ve worked on police reform where we want to make sure that the best wore the badge, that the officers have the best resources, the best training, and we never questioned their qualified immunity.
We had to stand in the gap when it matters the most &#8212; that means leading from the front and not from the back.
BREAM: I want to make sure quickly if we can because I want to couple&#8217;s &#8212; to a couple of these issues.
SCOTT: Yes, ma&#8217;am.
BREAM: School choice. Lisa Lightner, a special education advocate, said what you do is end up hurting public schools when you let parents take the money elsewhere. She says the vision is that the same amount of money spread out over more schools, only the best would survive. If a public school has to compete with the charter or private school, it will find a way to become better.
But she asked, how can they improve if you take even more money from them? It&#8217;s just not possible.
Your response?
SCOTT: So, let&#8217;s look at Success Academy in New York City where you see the populations are about 87 percent minority and yet their schools are the top in the state of New York. What we&#8217;ve seen very consistently, charter schools gets about half the money as public schools, yet there are public charter schools that provide choice for the parents and better quality education.
Out of the top 25 percent of high schools in the nation, more than &#8212; about 12 or about half of those are charter schools. So what we&#8217;re seeing around the country is a success of some form of school choice.
And, by the way, I don&#8217;t care whether it&#8217;s a public school, a private school, a charter school, a STEM school, a home school, a virtual school, I want every child in every zip code to have quality education. That should improve all aspects of education, not reduce funding.
BREAM: So, I asked Ambassador Haley about this last week, that this article that says the GOP &#8212; essentially U.N. Ambassador Haley give GOP cover on message of grace. It says, Scott&#8217;s message is that racism is not an institutional or systemic problem, but an individual failing. That&#8217;s precisely what conservatives want to hear so they can say, well, I&#8217;m not a racist, which means we don&#8217;t have to do much of anything about racism.
SCOTT: The only word I can think of is hogwash. The fact of the matter is I was Austin on Friday having a conversation with several hundred GOPers and we talked specifically about how the Jim Crow South impacted my family specifically.
My grandfather made the choice to be stubborn in his faith, his faith in the future, faith in himself and faith in this nation. But we had to overcome those challenges.
What I don&#8217;t like is when we hear President Biden talk about Jim Crow 2.0 when my family lived through Jim Crow, and that&#8217;s when you had to figure out the number of jellybeans in the jar in order to cast a ballot. To suggest that the current Georgia election laws are consistent with Jim Crow is just a lie.
And so, what we have to do is make sure that we arm our people today with the challenges of today and not pretend like we&#8217;re living in 1923 as opposed to 2023.
BREAM: All right. So, we have to go, Senator, but do you have a timeline for making an announcement or decision?
SCOTT: Well, I&#8217;m going to &#8212; I made a decision to go to church at 11:30 today.
BREAM: I will be following you there after the show as well.
When you decide about your political future &#8212;
SCOTT: Amen.
BREAM: &#8212; please let us know.
SCOTT: Yes, ma&#8217;am. Have a great day.
BREAM: Senator, thank you.</blockquote>
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Senator Tim Scott: ‘The Left Is Trying To Sell A Drug Of Victimhood And A Narcotic Of Despair’

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Shannon Bream

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) laid into Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday after she joked that she couldn&#8217;t tell him apart from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL).
Goldberg made the comments during a segment of the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; suggesting that because they were both Republicans, she couldn&#8217;t really differentiate between Tim Scott — who is black — and Rick Scott, who is not.
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&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1625534982935527429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We do deserve to have two strong parties,&#8221; Goldberg said during a discussion on Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast about former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) announcing a 2024 presidential bid. &#8220;So, you know, Tim Scott, black Tim Scott, right? Because there are two Scotts and I don&#8217;t know how to differentiate them without a picture.&#8221;
&#8220;Rick Scott and Tim Scott. Tim Scott is black, right? Okay,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s about to run — announce he&#8217;s running. They&#8217;re going to be coming out of the woodwork, so don&#8217;t just settle.&#8221;
Tim Scott got wind of Goldberg&#8217;s confusion — and offered her a primer on the similarities and differences between himself and Rick Scott.
&#8220;To clear up any confusion, Whoopi, despite @ScottForFlorida and I sporting similar hairstyles and representing the South, we are two different people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You should get to know me.&#8221;
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To clear up any confusion, Whoopi, despite <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottForFlorida</a> and I sporting similar hairstyles and representing the South, we are two different people. 
You should get to know me. <a href="https://t.co/Pu6KUj5pWT">https://t.co/Pu6KUj5pWT</a>
&mdash; Tim Scott (@votetimscott) <a href="https://twitter.com/votetimscott/status/1625549555981844480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Florida Senator responded to Scott&#8217;s assessment, sharing a photo of the two of them together and adding, &#8220;Can confirm.&#8221;
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Can confirm <a href="https://t.co/sDeYYXoV8W">https://t.co/sDeYYXoV8W</a> <a href="https://t.co/AIh5bJsxAy">pic.twitter.com/AIh5bJsxAy</a>
&mdash; Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1625578926662639633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Tim Scott has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tim-scott-claps-back-whoopi-goldberg-saying-tell-him-apart-rick-scott-know?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously tangled</a> with the hosts of &#8220;The View,&#8221; defending Haley after co-host Sunny Hostin <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-says-nikki-haley-ditched-ethnic-name-to-pass-but-she-ditched-asuncion-because-americans-are-stupid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused her</a> of using her middle name to sound less &#8220;ethnic.&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine that in America today that Sunny&#8217;s having a conversation about Nikki Haley&#8217;s name. Let&#8217;s have a conversation about how good of a governor she was. Let&#8217;s have a conversation about how all of South Carolinians, especially minorities in our state, saw their opportunities go up, not down under her leadership. The fact of the matter is that when you see strong, powerful, positive minorities standing up on the conservative side, the Left always wants to hit and demoralize, diminish our impact,&#8221; Scott said.
Haley — whose full name is Nimarata Nikki Haley — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sunny-isnt-your-birth-name-nikki-haley-fires-back-at-the-view-for-calling-her-an-ethnic-chameleon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded as well</a>, pointing out that Hostin goes by &#8220;Sunny&#8221; rather than her given name, Asunción. Hostin claimed she had opted for the nickname because Americans were too &#8220;stupid&#8221; to pronounce it properly.

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