‘Voters Don’t Care,’ South Carolina Sen Says

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As we beforehand reported, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is gaining popularity amongst GOP voters trying to put a Republican within the White Home once more. White conservatives love Scott as a result of he’s a Black man who downplays racism and since…properly, truly, that’s about it. However one problem retains popping up that appears to be turning into considerably of a nuisance for the melanated defender of white nationalism:

Tim Scott shouldn’t be married.

Final month, Axios printed an article about how some Republican donors who’re looking for an alternative choice to the previous commander-in-chief and present commander-in-legal-woes, Donald Trump, had been focused on Scott however involved he isn’t married. Positive, Trump was a complete married man when he was bragging about grabbing ladies by their nether areas, and Trump’s present spouse exhibits about as a lot affection for him as a germaphobe exhibits a stranger’s toothbrush—however at the very least he’s married, proper?

Throughout a latest marketing campaign cease, Scott, as soon as once more, needed to defend his bachelorhood to the GOP voting block.

From NBC Information:

Scott was requested in regards to the report Thursday throughout a go to to Lago’s Ice Cream alongside New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a fellow Republican.

“Folks plant tales which have conversations to distract from our rise within the polls, to distract from our measurement of our viewers,” Scott stated. “What we’ve seen is that ballot after ballot says that the voters don’t care, nevertheless it looks like opponents do care, and so media protection that opponents plant — it’s OK. Excellent news is we simply preserve combating the great battle.”

Scott didn’t seek advice from a particular presidential rival in his reply.

Since he entered public workplace in 1995 as a member of the Charleston, South Carolina, Metropolis Council, Scott has by no means publicly dated, a undeniable fact that has distinguished him from lots of his colleagues and political opponents.

NBC famous that James Buchanan was the one U.S. president in historical past who by no means married and Grover Cleveland was single on the time he was elected, which implies it has been 139 years since a bachelor was elected into the Oval Workplace. However, actually, that’s not Scott’s problem. Scott’s drawback is that, even though they worship the orange-tinted king of salaciousness, and even though they don’t have any problem supporting different members of the GOP who’re drowning in intercourse scandals (I’m you, Matt Gaetz), Republicans are nonetheless pretending to be the occasion of conventional household values.

Then, once more, possibly Scott is true and his bachelorhood isn’t an issue for his candidacy. It’s 2023, in spite of everything. So long as Scott retains tap-dancing and denying all racism besides the racism in opposition to Republicans, he’ll in all probability be OK. Even when he by no means turns into president, he would possibly nonetheless get the vote for the GOP’s favourite Black pal and modern-day home slave, married or not.