- Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a 2024 presidential candidate, rejected former President Barack Obama‘s critique of his view on race relations.
- Taking aim at Scott, the Senate’s lone black Republican member, and Nikki Haley, a GOP presidential candidate of Indian heritage, Obama argued there is a “history” of Republican candidates who “validate” the United States without a proper reckoning of the past.
- “Whenever the Democrats feel threatened, they drag out the former president and have him make some negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down,” Scott said.
- “The radical Left and President Obama: They have failed, they have failed, and they have failed,” Scott added.
