Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) criticized the hosts of “The View” for “attacking” him for being the only Black Republican senator, but said the Black Republican Party has momentum.
“I’m never surprised when the girls on ‘The View’ do it again,” he said in a video posted on social media platform X. “They are attacking me for being the only black Republican in the Senate.”
Scott said “repeatedly” that the women on the talk show helped defeat black Republicans running for Senate.
The South Carolina senator was responding to comments made by co-host Sunny Hostin, who said that if Scott was chosen as former President Trump’s vice president, he would not help him win over black voters in the upcoming election.
Scott, who suspended his Republican primary bid last November and later endorsed Trump in January, is rumored to be one of the former president’s possible running mates.
“If anyone thinks Tim Scott is going to bring in a bunch of black men, they really need to move on, because Tim Scott is the only African-American senator in the Republican Party for a reason,” Hostin said Friday as the women discussed which lawmaker would help Trump attract the most voters.
Former Trump administration adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin, also a co-host, said Democrats had just a few more Black lawmakers in the Senate than Republicans. Hostin said Democrats have recently had black lawmakers in every top publicly elected office in the country.
Scott argued that the co-hosts were afraid of the Republican Party’s black base.
“Four in 10 black men want to vote Republican, doubling the number of black women interested in voting Republican,” he said. “What they fear is that the monopoly will end.”
“The Republican Party, the Republican Party, on the move in my community,” Scott continued. “God bless the America.”
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