{"id":1930249,"date":"2023-05-13T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-mistook-gop-sen-tim-scott-for-black-democrat\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T06:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:57:36","slug":"feinstein-mistook-gop-sen-tim-scott-for-black-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-mistook-gop-sen-tim-scott-for-black-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein Mistook GOP Sen. Tim Scott For Black Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeinstein-mistook-gop-sen-tim-scott-for-black-democrat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) confused a black Republican colleague for a black Democrat in the Senate, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Terris, a Washington Post writer and author, shared on Thursday what a Senate staffer recalls witnessing in an interaction between Feinstein and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the sole black Republican member of the Senate who is now moving toward a presidential bid, sometime after Georgia\u2019s January 2021 runoff elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeinstein had approached Senator Tim Scott, stuck out her hand, and told him she had been rooting for him and was so happy to have him serving with her in the Senate,\u201d Terris reported in a story published by POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was obvious to Scott and the staffers in tow that Feinstein had mistaken the South Carolinian for Raphael Warnock, the newly elected Democratic senator from Georgia,\u201d Terris added. \u201cScott had played along. \u2018Thank you so much,\u2019 he had told Feinstein, according to the staffer who told me about the incident. \u2018Your support means a lot.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that Feinstein\u2019s office declined to comment on the anecdote.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, who\u00a0announced in February she would not seek re-election in 2024, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, ending a months-long absence as she dealt with a case of shingles. Feinstein showed up to the Senate in a wheelchair and said her doctors recommended that she work a \u201clighter schedule\u201d as she continues to recover.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 89, Feinstein is the Senate\u2019s oldest member \u2014\u00a0and in recent years, some colleagues have begun to raise concerns about her mental fitness.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/p>\n<p>Much of the report by Terris focused on Jamarcus Purley, a staffer whom Feinstein fired in 2022. While a termination letter cited performance issues, Purley reportedly thought he was being punished for telling \u201chard truths\u201d about the senator.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that perhaps one of the \u201cmost memorable\u201d comments Purley made to colleagues was his view that Feinstein cared \u201cmore about her dog, Kirby, than she does about black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When told about Feinstein mistaking Scott for Warnock, Terris wrote that Purley leaped out of his chair and shouted: \u201cThis is what I\u2019m talking about!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) confused a black Republican colleague for a black Democrat in the Senate, according to a new report.Ben Terris, a Washington Post writer and author, shared on Thursday what a Senate staffer recalls witnessing in an interaction between Feinstein and Sen. 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