GOP presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott: ‘No higher compliment than to be attacked’ by Obama

Republican Sen. Tim Scott fired again at former President Barack Obama on Sunday for saying that individuals are “rightly skeptical” of the 2024 presidential candidate’s rhetoric on racism.

“There’s no higher compliment than to be attacked by President Obama,” Mr. Scott, who’s Black, stated on “Fox News Sunday.” “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.”

Mr. Scott strikes an upbeat and optimistic tone on racism on the marketing campaign path, prompting current criticism from Mr. Obama on his hopeful messaging.

“If a Republican, who may even be sincere in saying, ‘I want us all to live together,’ doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society, and we need to do something about that. If that candidate is not willing to acknowledge that, again and again, we’ve seen discrimination in everything from … getting a job to buying a house to how the criminal justice system operates,” Mr. Obama stated throughout a podcast interview along with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod. “If somebody’s not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing, elements that say, ‘No, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair. We actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.’ If they’re not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical.”

Other Democrats and left-leaning activists have additionally questioned Mr. Scott‘s views on race.

“Here is what people need to know: the truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left,” Mr. Scott stated.