Sen. Tim Scott is getting top reviews after giving Monday night's final Republican National Convention speech, but he insisted Tuesday morning that he's focused on getting President Donald Trump reelected, not looking at a potential presidential race of his own in 2024.
"Absolutely not," he told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade, who asked the South Carolina Republican if he's looking to his own future in four years. "I'm thinking about 2020 and making sure that we have another four years of Donald Trump."
"But you're not ruling it out?" Kilmeade asked him.
"I'm not ruling it in," Scott responded. "I'm just ruling in the fact that we should spend every waking moment protecting this country by reelecting the president, Donald Trump."
Scott said that Tuesday would have been his grandfather's 99th birthday, and one of the lessons he learned from him was to "lean into my country and to lean into what I believe in," and he believes Trump kicked off the convention by "leaning in on the American family".
"If we have the right policies and the right person leading the country, we will break into a full-speed-ahead approach, a warp-speed ahead because the best is yet to come,' said Scott.
The senator also rejected claims that Trump's opponents make accusing him of racism.
"A racist president does not provide the highest funding for HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) in the history of the country and he certainly does not make that funding permanent," said Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate. "A racist president does not take opportunity zones and provide up to $75 billion of private-sector dollars for the most distressed people in the country. A racist president simply does not create 7 million jobs and make sure two-thirds of those jobs go to African-Americans, Hispanics, and women."
But as important as those policy positions are, behind the scenes, "you see the heart from whence it comes," said Scott.
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