Obama Takes Jab At Republican Sen. Tim Scott

Former President Barrack Obama took a swipe at Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott in his latest interview with David Axelrod of CNN.

When asked about Tim Scott’s campaign, Obama went on record saying “If a Republican … doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism … then people are rightly skeptical.”

The former president continued the “Can’t we all get along (message)… That has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present.”

Listen to Obama here:

Fmr. Pres. Obama criticizes 2024 GOP pres. candidate Sen. Tim Scott’s (SC) rhetoric on racism:

“If a Republican … doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism … then people are rightly skeptical.” pic.twitter.com/bYqGRMmgy0

— The Recount (@therecount) June 15, 2023

Here’s what Fox News reported:

President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., criticized one another’s handling of race this week, with Obama claiming Republican talk of American unity falls flat.

Democratic strategist David Axelrod interviewed Obama for CNN on Thursday and asked the former president what he thought of Scott’s discussions of race. Scott, meanwhile, argued that Obama missed an opportunity to bring the country together following his 2008 and 2012 elections.

“I think there’s a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, ‘Everything’s great, and we can make it.’ Nikki Haley I think has a similar approach,” Obama told Axelrod when asked about Scott. “I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually, but I am maybe suggesting the rhetoric of ‘Can’t we all get along’… That has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present.”

Obama went on to argue that candidates must address racial disparities in the justice system and elsewhere if they want to be taken seriously when they talk about American unity.

Obama’s comment come after Tim Scott went on the View and told the real truth about the democrat Party and racism in America.

Watch Scott here:

Chaos erupts on the View after lib hosts send CREW out on-air to SILENCE Sen. Tim Scott for exposing TRUTH about Democrat Party and racism in America pic.twitter.com/H6PalL8krT

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2023

The Daily Mail covered the story too:

America’s first black president took aim at black Republican senator Tim Scott for saying his party was ‘doing a fabulous job of making progress.’

Scott launched his run for president last month on an optimistic platform and has put his own story of struggle at the center of his campaign, with a philosophy that suggests everyone can succeed if they want to.

But former President Barack Obama said in a podcast released on Thursday that it was time for the Republican Party to get real about how systemic racism shaped the nation’s history.

‘And so, if a Republican who may even be sincere in saying “I want us all to live together” doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society and we need to do something about that …’ Obama told the Axe Files, hosted by his former adviser David Axelrod.

‘If somebody is not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, “No, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair. We actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.”