South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott slammed President Joe Biden Saturday for “pandering” to black voters in his two-day campaign swing through Atlanta and Detroit this weekend — and predicted they will support Republican Donald Trump in “historic” numbers come November.
“[Biden] sometimes says, ‘You can’t be black if you don’t vote for me.’ Or he’ll say something as asinine as ‘Republicans want to put you back in chains’,” Scott, the GOP’s only sitting African American senator, told Fox News.
“But last time I checked, the only person restraining black economic growth is Joe Biden and Bidenomics,” he said.
“So please don’t pander to people smart enough to smell what you’re cooking, and it’s a rat.”
Scott — a top contender to become Trump’s vice-presidential running mate — scorched Biden’s economic record, saying inflation has brought “devastation” to low-income Americans.
“That’s one of the reasons why you see so many black voters shifting to the GOP under Trump,” he said.
“Why? Because Donald Trump delivered.”
A poll of six battleground states released this week by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found 23% of black voters backing Trump in a head-to-head matchup with Biden –the highest level of African American support for any Republican presidential candidate since the pre-Civil Rights era.
If those results presage November’s general election results, it would mean a monumental shift in a demographic group that has backed the Democratic Party by massive margins for generations.
Biden claimed to be “a lifetime member of the NAACP” in a Friday appearance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, then flew to Atlanta Saturday for a hastily arranged “campaign event with Black voters,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
On Sunday, the president is set to deliver a commencement speech at historically black Morehouse College – an appearance that has been vociferously opposed by some students and faculty members there — before heading to Detroit for a speech before the local chapter of the NAACP.
“Historic shifts towards President Trump are already happening,” Scott said.
“Without question, the pandering tour is because without the black vote, there is no Democrat Party.”
