What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

It’s an enduring trope that the rising star who gets to give rebuttal to the State of the Union ends up floundering. Do people think Scott’s future in the GOP or national politics is bright?

The Scott speech was more of a rebuttal to the discourse about the Georgia voting law than anything Biden said.

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.