Tim Scott seems pretty mainstream Republican he certainly Anti-abortion and talks often about protecting life He did say recently when asked on television if he would support the bill Sponsored in the Senate by his fellow South Carolina and Lindsey Graham to ban abortions nationally after 15 weeks. So essentially there's some of the more like old-school Republicanism that you might associate with abortion politics or entitlement reform. But also this new form of more Trumpy conservatism which does dive right into the new cultural issues of like Wokeism and COVID and China, immigration and things like that.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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