South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Saturday accused President Joe Biden of “pandering” to Black voters during two days of campaigning in Atlanta and Detroit this weekend, and said that in November, Republican Donald Trump He predicted that Trump would support President Trump in “historic” numbers.
“[Biden] Sometimes people say, “If you don’t vote for me, you can’t be black.” Otherwise, they’ll say stupid things like, ‘The Republicans are trying to put you back in chains,'” said Scott, the only African-American Republican senator. told Fox News.
“But last I checked, the only thing holding back economic growth for Black people was Joe Biden and Bidennomics,” he said.
“So don’t pander to people who are smart enough to smell what they’re cooking. That’s a rat.”
Scott, who is a front-runner to be President Trump’s running mate, was harshly critical of Biden’s economic record, saying inflation has brought “devastation” to low-income Americans.
“That’s one of the reasons why so many black voters are shifting to the Republican Party under Trump,” he said.
“Why? Because Donald Trump got it done.”
Opinion polls in six battleground states released this week. New York Times, Siena College, Philadelphia Inquirer According to the survey, 23% of black voters support Trump in a head-to-head matchup with Biden, the highest level of African-American support for a Republican presidential candidate since the pre-civil rights era. .
If these results foreshadow the outcome of November’s general election, it would mark a monumental shift in demographic groups that have supported Democrats by wide margins for generations. Dew.
Biden claimed to be a “life member of the NAACP” On Friday’s performance He visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture, then flew to Atlanta on Saturday to participate in a hastily organized “campaign event with black voters.” As reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
On Sunday, the president is scheduled to give a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, an event that has been vociferously opposed by some of the school’s students and faculty, and has since been joined by local chapters of the NAACP. He is scheduled to head to Detroit to give a speech at .
“The historic shift toward the Trump presidency has already occurred,” Scott said.
“Without question, this pandering tour is because without black votes there would be no Democratic Party.”
