Clyburn agrees with Scott that US isn’t racist, but disagrees on voting rights

Published May 1, 2021 3:33pm ET



Rep. Jim Clyburn agreed with fellow South Carolina lawmaker Sen. Tim Scott’s assessment that America “is not a racist country.”

Clyburn, despite agreeing with his Republican counterpart in terms of whether the United States is racist, rebuked the GOP’s efforts to change the way elections are conducted. Scott gave the GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address Wednesday to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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