Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took President Joe Biden to task over his failure to unify people on Sunday, calling his recent speech shaming MAGA Republicans “unnecessary, polarizing, and inflammatory.”
Scott made the comments after marking the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Anchor Shannon Bream asked the South Carolina senator about the national political unity that the attacks sparked and if it was a “pipe dream” to think the country could get back to that unified place.
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“Not at all, Shannon. The good news is that America always comes together after the crisis. I call it the aftermath mentality,” Scott said, referencing what happened after 9/11 and a 2015 mass shooting at a South Carolina church. “I believe that we are the most exceptional people on Earth, and we do unify after the crisis.”
“The question is: Can we have the type of leadership that unifies us without a crisis?” he continued. “And what we have not seen from the Biden administration is that type of unifying message that people rally around.”
Scott then took aim at Biden’s prime-time presidential address earlier this month, in which he described former President Donald Trump’s wing of the Republican Party as “extremists” from the historic Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Numerous major networks declined to carry the speech due to its political nature, and critics have argued that Biden’s overall message was divisive.
“Why would we have the president of the United States deliver a soul-crushing speech that was unnecessary, polarizing, and inflammatory?” Scott asked, referencing the 46th president’s address. “We have done better, we will do better, and that’s why elections have consequences.”
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The GOP senator said political leaders will need to have “hard conversations with the American voters” that deal with “not red or blue solutions but … American solutions” in order for the nation to unify and create change. ”
“If we were to have the tough issues and the tough conversations about the future of America, and not the future of Republicans or Democrats, we would actually earn the respect of the American people,” Scott added.
