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

By Mike Brest

Published May 1, 2021 3:33pm ET

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Clyburn agrees with Scott that US isn’t racist, but disagrees on voting rights — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, speaks during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Feb. 14, 2019. | (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

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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