Tim Scott received a call from Governor Nikki Haley Sunday night. “Do you want to be a U.S. senator?” Haley asked.
Scott, a Republican congressman from Charleston, says he doesn’t remember anything else from the conversation, but within 18 hours, he was being introduced as the Palmetto State’s next senator.
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