The View's Whoopi Goldberg calls out racist 'dog whistle' in Tim Scott's campaign rollout
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg called out Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) for using what she suggested was a racist dog whistle to announce his presidential campaign.
The only Black Republican in the Senate officially entered the 2024 campaign Monday with a 30-second ad that will roll out this week in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and Scott starts off by complaining that children had become too entitled.
“Today’s kids are growing up immersed in a culture where everyone’s a victim,” Scott says in the ad. “We need to start teaching the necessity of individual responsibility. If you are able-bodied, you work. If you take out a loan, you pay it back. If you commit a violent crime, you go to jail. Can I get an amen?”
Goldberg started the segment by noting those complaints echoed character flaws exhibited by Donald Trump, and then she closed out the discussion by calling out Scott's concerns as a signal to racist voters.
"If he had come out and said, you know what, here's what's been happening, here's I'm going to change it," Goldberg said. "Instead, for me he came out and did that dog whistle -- victimhood. As soon as you say that, you know what he's talking about. I didn't like that."
"You know, I don't like the idea that he's got this idea that people don't take responsibility for what they do," she added. "That's why I said, listen, you should talk to your party first, because they didn't take responsibility. You know, listen, if he comes out with something that makes sense, that's what will make him sparkle. Tell us what you're going to do."
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