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enhanced_deficit
12-19-2018, 08:58 PM
Widely respected Senator Tim Scott, who is lately seen as a rising star of GOP-Jarvanka wing, could be candidate for Presidency in near future?
It is not clear if both are bipartisanly cherished AIPAC funded conservatives.


Trey Gowdy says he’ll return to politics if Tim Scott runs for president



By Caitlin Byrd
Dec 13, 2018 Updated Dec 13, 2018


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U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

Retiring South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy has insisted he’s done with politics, but it turns out he’d be willing to make an exception for best friend, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott.
“I will get back in politics if Tim Scott runs for president and he says, ‘Look, I need you to go to Iowa or New Hampshire to knock on doors,’” the exiting House Oversight Committee chairman told Fox News (https://video.foxnews.com/v/5978892859001/?intcmp=ob_footer_video#sp=show-clips) on Wednesday.

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Scott also has strong foreign policy credentials besides having close ties to MAGA team.

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Senator Tim Scott honors Ivanka Trump at WIL workshop


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PAF
12-19-2018, 09:06 PM
I haven’t updated these in ages:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?447632-Trey-Gowdy-On-The-Record

enhanced_deficit
12-19-2018, 10:16 PM
I haven’t updated these in ages:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?447632-Trey-Gowdy-On-The-Record

Have added this latest update to that thread.

enhanced_deficit
12-29-2018, 01:20 PM
Scott continues to impress many in media also:


Republicans should always ask themselves ‘What would Tim Scott do?’

Brian Hicks

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U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Sunday said President Donald Trump has taken steps that have helped “move us in a better direction” as a nation when it comes to race relations. Screenshot. CBS.

Tim Scott could save the Republican Party from itself.
All they have to do is listen to him ... and think every now and then.
Last week, South Carolina’s junior senator nixed President Trump’s latest nominee for a federal judgeship — the second one Scott has torpedoed this year.
The president nominated Thomas Farr on the recommendation of North Carolina’s two Republican senators, so this isn’t entirely on Trump. Although a little executive vetting would be nice.
See, Farr is a Raleigh lawyer who, over the years, has been linked to any number of suspect attempts to suppress minority voting in North Carolina — gerrymandering, curbing early balloting, and an insidious Jesse Helms campaign stunt back in the day.
Any one of which makes him unworthy of a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. But Republican Senate leadership tried to get Farr confirmed anyway, and shamelessly courted Scott for his vote.
He chose, conversely, to do his homework. Scott interviewed Department of Justice investigators who had looked into Farr’s electoral tampering and finally concluded he couldn’t, in good conscience, support the nominee.
There’s a lesson here for the GOP. If they want to attract more African American voters, or change the widespread impression that they can only win by rigging elections, they should consider Scott’s opinion before nominating potential bigots.
Otherwise, fold up the big-tent rhetoric.

A bold statement

A principled decision like this may look a little strange, seeing as how rare they are in the halls of Congress. But conservatives need not question Scott’s allegiance.
When Democrats said Sen. Jeff Sessions’ past was filled with too much racial controversy to be attorney general, Scott invited his then-colleague to Charleston and got to know him. Ultimately, he voted to confirm Sessions.
As he did Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Scott, the only black Republican in the United States Senate, doesn’t buck his party often, but he does his homework and simply isn’t going to condone virulent racism.
He criticized the president’s tone-death “both sides” remark after a rally of neo-Nazis ended with a woman’s death in in Charlottesville, Virgina. And he’s spoken the truth about discrimination to his colleagues on the Senate floor.
Scott is doing his best to drag his party into the 21st century, and it would do well to pay attention.


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