Tim Scott, and the Republican Partys Vexed Relationship with Race

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 10:20 p.m.

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The South Carolina senator Tim Scott likes to point to himself as an example of racial progress in America. But in a recent story for The New Yorker, Robert Samuels looked into Scott\\u2019s personal story\\u2014in many ways a messier tale than the one he tells\\u2014and into the ways that the \\u201c\\u200b\\u200bconcave mirror shaped by his own experience\\u201d distorts Scott\\u2019s view of politics. Samuels joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Scott\\u2019s Presidential run, and what he reveals about the Republican Party\\u2019s relationship to race and racism.

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