Tim Scott pushes a woeful solution to his Team Trump ‘problem’

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Sen. Tim Scott hasn’t exactly been subtle about his national ambitions. After the South Carolina Republican’s presidential campaign was an expensive flop — Scott struggled to reach 5% in the polls, in part because he appeared terrified of differentiating himself from Donald Trump — the senator started embarrassing himself in the apparent hopes of joining the former president’s 2024 ticket. There’s one important part of Scott’s resume, however, that his intraparty critics seized on.

With this in mind, what, pray tell, is the South Carolinian prepared to do about his partisan “problem”? As NBC News noted, Scott appears to have settled on the most unfortunate fix possible. Over and over again, host Kristen Welker pressed the Republican to simply say, “yes or no,” whether he was prepared to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election. He wouldn’t say — though Scott was willing to question the integrity of NBC News’ journalism for reasons unknown.

 

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