Republican Senator of South Carolina Tim Scott is set to deliver the Republicans’ rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress next week.
On Twitter, McConnell wrote that Sen. Scott “is not just one of the strongest leaders in the Senate. He is one of the most inspiring and unifying leaders in our nation. I’m glad he’ll be delivering the Republican Address following the President’s remarks on Wednesday.”
“We face serious challenges on multiple fronts, but I am as confident as I have ever been in the promise and potential of America,” Scott said in a statement. “I look forward to having an honest conversation with the American people and sharing Republicans’ optimistic vision for expanding opportunity and empowering working families.”
At the virtual Republican National Convention last year, Scott inspired viewers with his family’s success story. “Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime,” said Scott, who’s routinely maligned for being a black Republican. “And that’s why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.”
“Do we want a society that breeds success, or a culture that cancels everything it even slightly disagrees with?” Scott continued in his remarks. “I know where I stand, because you see, I am living my mother’s American Dream.”
“My parents divorced when I was 7 years old,” Scott went on. “We lived in a two-bedroom house with my grandparents; me, my mom, and my brother sharing a room and a bed. My mom worked 16 hours a day to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. She knew that if we could find the opportunity, bigger things would come.”
Last summer, Scott led the push for a comprehensive police reform bill that would create a national “enhanced use-of-force database, pursue restrictions on chokeholds and create new commissions to study law enforcement and race,” Fox News reported. However, Democrats blocked the legislation.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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