He’s described being pulled over 18 times while driving since 2000 and being stopped by a U.S. Scott, among only 11 Black senators in history, has used riveting Senate speeches to detail his own distressing encounters with the law. Following years of nativist appeals by President Donald Trump and others, out-of-power Republicans are trying to broaden their appeal before 2022 elections that they hope will deliver them control of Congress. GOP leaders’ choíce of Scott to answer Biden comes at a tense political moment.ĭemands for social justice are reverberating even as killings of Black people by white police officers continue. “You figure out who your audience is, you figure out what you want to say and you try and find a way to say it well,” Scott told reporters Tuesday about his speech preparations. The issue has long eluded compromise despite national attention fanned by last year’s killing of George Floyd, a Black man, and this month’s conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer in his slaying. Scott also is the lead GOP negotiator as the two parties seek an accord on legislation overhauling police procedures. Now, the lawmaker who combines a willingness to address racial questions with an advocacy of vintage conservative themes such as opportunity and optimism is giving his party’s nationally televised response to President Joe Biden’s Wednesday night address to Congress. This time, he and the spotlight have found each other.īrought up by a single mother who worked backbreaking hours as a nursing assistant, the 55-year-old Scott has spent a decade in Congress representing South Carolina.
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