Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, rushed to the defense of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as he faces a torrent of vitriol, including racial slurs, after voting to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I certainly think that the greatest threat to the liberal coalition are Black conservatives who stand up and think for ourselves,” Mr. Scott said on Fox’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“We represent the fact that the African-American community is not a monolithic community,” he said. “If you can ever break the stronghold that the Democrats have on the African-American community, the entire coalition falls apart.