DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has distinguished himself as a candidate with an optimistic message, but he entered the culture war fray on Friday night during an address at an important Iowa Republican fundraiser.
“We kneel for the Father, and we stand for the flag, in respect,” Scott said Friday during the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines. “If God made you a man, you play sports against men.”
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“I am living proof that all things are possible in God’s country,” the only black Republican senator and grandson of a cotton picker added. “We must choose greatness over grievance, victory over victimhood, and we must protect this land of opportunity.”
The previous day, Scott underscored there were no “benefits” to slavery after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defended himself against criticism regarding Florida’s new black history teaching standards, changed to align school curricula with his Stop WOKE Act.
“As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery,” Scott said after a town hall in Ankeny. “There’s no silver lining in slavery. … Any benefits that people suggest you had from slavery, you would have had as a free person.”
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The Lincoln Day Dinner is a critical opportunity for 2024 Republican primary presidential candidates to differentiate themselves from a crowded field before next January’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Former President Donald Trump has an average of 52% support, DeSantis has 18%, biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Vice President Mike Pence have 5%, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has 4%, and Scott has 3%, according to RealClearPolitics.
