Things got hot and heated this week on ABC’s hit show “The View” after U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina appeared as a guest.
The politician was so focused on his talking points that host Whoopi Goldberg had to call in a crew member to hush him up.
Scott went to great lengths to share his belief that as a successful Black man, he has been wrongly characterized as the “exception” to the rule.
Scott’s Monday, June 5, appearance on the 31-time Emmy winning-show was prompted by multiple comments the hosts have said about his presidential candidacy and conservative views. While trying to defend his point, debating mostly with Sunny Hostin, he overtalked Goldberg while she tried to throw to a commercial and caused her to get a staffer to get the politician to be quiet.
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The episode started out with Alyssa Farah Griffin celebrating Scott entering into the presidential race because of his core position as a “traditional” conservative with a “hopeful message.” Griffin’s first question focused on how the politician planned to convince Trump supporters to follow him.
“I think people are hungry for something hopeful and optimistic,” Scott said when defending his political posture over that of the confrontational former president.
During his spiel on hopefulness, he shared his belief that there are “too many kids in poor ZIP codes trapped in failing schools,” a circumstance that has an impact on their ability to achieve the American dream. He said he understood how education created an opportunity for him, affording him a slice of the American pie that helped him purchase a house with a garage for his mother so that she would no longer have to live in one of those poor and dangerous neighborhoods.
Approximately 4 minutes into the interview…
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