What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

Political scientist Tasha Philpot notes in her book, Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln, that it’s not enough to have Black faces in the party to garner support from Black voters. The party needs to adopt a different policy agenda that meets the needs and concerns of Black folks. Even if Scott is at the top of the ticket, Black voters aren’t swayed that much by descriptive representation from the GOP.

For a guy who said “my friends across the aisle seemed to want the [race] issue more than they wanted the solution,” Scott spent a lot of time attacking his political opponents on race.

I continue to think that Biden talking about unity repeatedly in his inaugural address was politically stupid and provided four years of Republican talking points. They could deny him unity, and it was entirely predictable that they would. Scott attacked him on that unity issue several times.