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Can Tim Scott's Optimism Win Over The GOP?

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Tim Scott: A Conservative Republican

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.

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