Tim Scott Launches ‘America’s Starting Five’ to Attract Black Votes

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) launched a brand new video series featuring five Black Republican congressional legislators who discuss this experience intimately.

“America’s Starting Five” premiered on April 5 in a roundtable discussion with Scott and Reps. Burgess Owens (Utah), John James (Mich.), Wesley Hunt (Texas) and Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.), who’s credited with but I didn’t see it.

The series explores what it means to be a Black Republican within the 2024 presidential election. In the primary episode, the group discusses the growing Black Republican demographic and Joe Biden’s “You ain’t Black” comments on The Breakfast Club radio show.

“Well, I’ll inform you what. If you do not know whether you are for me or Trump, you are not black,” Biden told host Charlamagne tha God ahead of the 2020 election.

The former presidential candidate called the comments “frustrating and hilarious” and said Biden could get away with saying such things.

“Frustrating in the sense that Democrats and Joe Biden avoid saying the stupidest things and never hold anyone accountable for the things they say so lewdly,” Scott told the others.

“It’s funny since it’s funny. I’m serious, is that what you mean, you possibly can’t be Black? Old white guy telling me I am unable to be black if I do not vote for him?

Turning to Biden’s controversial comments that “Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids,” James took the remark seriously. “I think Joe Biden is as bad as a heart attack,” the Michigan lawmaker said, and Hunt agreed with him, saying “100 percent.” “The arrogance of these white liberals who demean not only African Americans but poor children in general.”

work on the series had been happening for weeks whose goal is to reach black voters. In February 2024, Hunt tweeted a photograph giving a sneak peek on the show, calling it and his colleagues “the Democratic Party’s WORST ONE ROOM NIGHTMARE.”

The videos are designed to mimic the same old hangouts for Black men, drawing inspiration from the role that barbershops play within the Black community, often seen on podcasts like LeBron James’ “The Shop: Uninterrupted.”

Scott’s series comes at a time when former President Donald Trump has been pushing hard to secure the Black vote, naming the senator and Donalds as potential running mates. “I watched him last week defending me and sticking up for me and fighting for me,” Trump said of Scott in an interview in February 2024. “I said, ‘Man, you are a significantly better person to me than you’re to yourself. ”

The The premiere of the second a part of the series is scheduled for April 12.