{"id":461522,"date":"2021-04-29T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461522"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:05:43","slug":"5-must-see-moments-from-sen-tim-scotts-gop-response-to-president-bidens-congressional-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-must-see-moments-from-sen-tim-scotts-gop-response-to-president-bidens-congressional-address\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Must-See Moments From Sen. Tim Scott\u2019s GOP Response To President Biden\u2019s Congressional Address"},"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\">28<\/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%2F5-must-see-moments-from-sen-tim-scotts-gop-response-to-president-bidens-congressional-address%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=461522&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4053.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) on Wednesday delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden\u2019s Joint Address to Congress. Throughout the course of his speech, Scott focused on unifying the nation while promoting conservative values.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the five best moments from his response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>America is not a racist country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again and if they look a certain way, they\u2019re an oppressor. From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven\u2019t made any progress at all by doubling down on the divisions we\u2019ve worked so hard to heal,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is <em>not\u00a0<\/em>a racist country. It\u2019s backwards [sic] to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it\u2019s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.210862619808\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I get called Uncle Tom and the N word by progressives\u2026I know firsthand, our healing is not finished,&#8221; Sen. Tim Scott says in GOP rebuttal of President Biden&#8217;s address to Congress, adding later, &#8220;Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EOet8AriSb\">pic.twitter.com\/EOet8AriSb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1387599370120581121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Republicans support fair and honest elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an African-American who has voted in the South all my life. I take voting rights personally,\u201d Scott explained. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat \u2013 and so do voters!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig majorities of Americans support early voting and big majorities support voter I.D., including African-Americans and Hispanics. Common sense makes common ground,\u201d the senator stated. \u201cBut today, this conversation has collapsed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves mail-in voting; and, despite what the president claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIf you actually read this law, it\u2019s mainstream! It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run New York, but the Left doesn\u2019t want you to know that. They want people to virtue-signal by yelling about a law they haven\u2019t even read!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFact-checkers have called out the White House for misstatements. The president absurdly claims this is worse than Jim Crow. What is going on here?\u201d the Republican asked rhetorically.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll tell you \u2013 a Washington power grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis misplaced outrage is supposed to justify Democrats\u2019 sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states; send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with; and make the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission\u2026 <em>partisan<\/em>!\u201d Scott stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.165\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI take voting rights personally\u201d: Sen. Tim Scott addresses recent controversial voting laws across the U.S.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/22dZjkVYs7\">https:\/\/t.co\/22dZjkVYs7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toaENlG00Z\">pic.twitter.com\/toaENlG00Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1387599349199298563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>America is the land of opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, I never dreamed I\u2019d be standing here tonight. When I was a kid, my parents divorced. My mother, my brother, and I moved in with my grandparents, three of us, sharing one bedroom,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school. But I was blessed, first, with a praying momma. And let me say this, to the single mothers out there who are working their tails off, working hard, trying to make ends meet, wonder if it\u2019s worth it, you can bet it is. God bless your amazing effort on part of your kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also blessed by a Chick-Fil-A operator, John Moniz, finally, with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in America,\u201d the senator stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Tim Scott Begins the Republican Response telling his personal story: &#8220;Growing up, I never dreamed I would be standing here tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LIVE UPDATES: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MnlfOq1H0h\">https:\/\/t.co\/MnlfOq1H0h<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHfGUnUXOA\">pic.twitter.com\/VHfGUnUXOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1387596114560421892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Progressives and their cohorts in the establishment media have targeted Scott.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to be followed around a store while I\u2019m shopping,\u201d he said in a somber voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember, every morning, at the kitchen table, my grandfather would have the newspaper in his hands. Later, I realized he had never learned to read it. He just wanted to set the right example,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 and the N-word \u2014 by progressives, by liberals,\u201d the senator explained. \u201cJust last week, a national newspaper suggested my family\u2019s poverty was actually privilege\u2026 because a relative owned land generations before my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5987261146497\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In response to President Biden&#8217;s address to Congress, Sen. Tim Scott calls out &#8220;progressives&#8221; who call him &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; and &#8220;N-Word.&#8221; He also called out The Washington Post &#8220;fact-checker&#8221; Glenn Kessler who targeted his family history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7k7I7qwUOM\">pic.twitter.com\/7k7I7qwUOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1387597102499475462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The American people, not Washington insiders, determine our country\u2019s future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur best future won\u2019t come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you, the American people. Black, Hispanic, white, and Asian. Republican and Democrat. Brave police officers and Black neighborhoods,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are <em>not<\/em> adversaries,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe are<em> family<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2368421052632\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Tim Scott: \u201cOur best future will not come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you, the American people\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/22dZjkVYs7\">https:\/\/t.co\/22dZjkVYs7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qNSD0VnEGz\">pic.twitter.com\/qNSD0VnEGz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1387599861957210112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tim-scott-shreds-joe-biden-in-rebuttal-speech-biden-is-tearing-us-apart-after-promising-to-unite-nation\">Tim Scott Shreds Joe Biden In Rebuttal Speech: Biden Is Tearing Us Apart After Promising To Unite Nation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Beth Baumann is a Political Reporter and Editor at The Daily Wire. Follow her on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eb454\">@eb454<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) on Wednesday delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden\u2019s Joint Address to Congress. Throughout the course of his speech, Scott focused on unifying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276989,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4053.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"5 Must-See Moments From Sen. 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