One hundred days ago, Donald Trump was ending his time in office, but Tim Scott starts off his speech by saying Biden is divisive. OK.
Tim Scott continues trying to sell Biden as divisive.
“Families get to define [the American Dream] for themselves,” Scott says, opposing ... more schooling availability for all Americans.
“Families get to define [the American Dream] for themselves,” Scott says, opposing ... more schooling availability for all Americans.
Scott is most effective, rhetorically, on policing, race-based discrimination, & voting — using his own experiences w/ racism to try to push back against Dem attacks on GOP policies/positions. It was an attempt to connect, but then he just went off into defensive talking points.
I’d have been interested in the speech Tim Scott on his own would have given, b/c there were so many points that you could just draw a line where a Scott thought became generic GOP talking point. Which, I guess, is inevitable in any response. But, here, it made Scott much weaker.
A lot of it, at this point, is obviously his choice. He’s still in the party — after Trump and, especially after Jan. 6. I get that. I’m just saying, the very reasons why Republicans picked him — and why he might have been good for them — also might have made this bad for him.
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