Sen. Tim Scott offers his personal story at RNC as counterpoint to Democrats' agenda

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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott spoke on the first night of the Republican convention.

The RNC speaking lineup of Trump’s most vocal defenders and viral right-wing media darlings resembles the president’s favorite conservative prime-time TV shows.“Democrats called our work a token effort, and walked out of the room during negotiations because they wanted the issue more than they wanted a solution,” Scott said.

With race relations especially raw after high-profile deaths of Black Americans such as George Floyd, Scott emphasized racial reconciliation, owing his first win in an overwhelmingly white House district to voters who “judged me not the color of my skin, but on the content of my character.” Like the speaker who preceded him — former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent — Scott emphasized the nation’s progress on race.

“We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news — racially, economically and culturally polarizing news. The truth is, our nation’s arc always bends back towards fairness,” Scott said. “We are not fully where we want to be, but I thank God almighty, we are not where we used to be.”Scott has focused most of his energies in partnering with the White House on Opportunity Zones, a provision in the 2017 tax cut bill that aims to stimulate investment in high-poverty areas.

Much of his speech aimed to chip away at Black support for Democrats, portraying Joe Biden as an architect of mass incarceration because of his work on the

 

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