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'Free at last': GOP's Tim Scott uses MLK quote to justify Texas redistricting plan

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) used a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to justify a Texas redistricting effort that Democrats say hurts Black and Hispanic voters.

"Making comparisons, they have nothing to do with one another, doesn't make it better," Scott told Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Wednesday after one Democrat said that redistricting was like policies that came ahead of the Holocaust.

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'Let me finish!' Republican hits back as CNN host applies pressure on Medicaid

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) acted surprised at CNN host Pamela Brown's follow-up question about a Congressional Budget Office prediction during a discussion about possible Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump's "one big beautiful bill."

Brown began, "10.9 million people, according to the CBO, could lose their health care over the next 10 years if this bill passes. Now, I know you have taken issue in the past about how CBO scores, so I want to get ahead of you on that one."

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Senate Republican unloads after Nancy Mace drags his name into meltdown over TSA agents

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) got a stern rebuke Tuesday from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who expressed displeasure over the MAGA lawmaker invoking his name during her ongoing meltdown over airport law enforcement officers.

On a recent trip at Charleston International Airport, Mace melted down at Transportation Safety Administration agents and airport security, reportedly blasting them as "f---ing incompetent," saying their actions endangered her.

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Senate Republican scurries into bathroom to duck reporter's question

A prominent Republican U.S. senator ducked into a bathroom this week to try to avoid questions about the GOP's efforts to throw together a health care plan, The New York Times reported on Friday evening.

"Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, was on the way to a health committee hearing this week when he was asked what his party was going to do about insurance subsidies that are set to expire, driving up the cost of care for millions of Americans and leaving millions of others uninsured," reported Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Confronted with this, "he laughed and said: 'Sounds like a question.' His press secretary offered a reporter her card. Then Mr. Scott pulled a common Capitol Hill avoidance tactic: He ducked into the men’s room."

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'Dumb': White House warns Nancy Mace's political ambitions in jeopardy as she defies Trump

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was one of a handful of House Republicans who signed onto the bipartisan discharge petition to compel the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.

Now, White House staffers have put her on notice that she may have sealed doom for her ambition to be governor of South Carolina, NOTUS reported on Thursday.

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Fox News host warns Nancy Mace's 'psychotic episode' is derailing Trump's agenda

Fox News host Trey Gowdy suggested on Wednesday that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and her latest "psychotic episode" is contributing to the GOP's inability to unite and defend President Donald Trump's agenda.

This follows Republicans facing a severe drubbing in this week's elections, with Democrats claiming huge victories in state and local races in Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and elsewhere.

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Nancy Mace berates police and TSA during curse-laden airport meltdown: report

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost it and berated TSA agents during a meltdown at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday, according to reports.

Mace, who is running to be governor of South Carolina in 2026, "cursed at police officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them, according to a Wired report published Friday after the organization issued a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain a police report.

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'Like an episode of Veep': Weird cameo for Trump sidekick buried on MSNBC

Sen. Tim Scott's appearance with Donald Trump on Thursday when the president met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell both baffled and amused the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" over its sheer oddness.

The day after Trump's visit went south as Powell fact-checked him in front of the press, co-host Joe Scarborough and regular panelist Sam Stein cracked up over why the South Carolina Republican was next to Trump.

After an amused Stein observed that Scott was not given a hard hat for his worksite visit, like all the other participants, he laughingly added, "The best part actually came at the end when they were taking questions after this whole thing was done."

"Hold on, hold on," Scarborough interrupted before pointing out that when Trump was embarrassed by Powell after reading off wrong numbers provided by his staff, Scott was quick to jump in and add, "Those are my numbers. Those are the numbers I have too, Mr. President."

As the two laughed, Scarborough snorted, "This is Hall of Fame by Tim Scott. 'No, those are my numbers too!'"

"Okay, but there's a better Tim Scott moment," Stein chimed in. I think I'm just going to throw it out there, it comes at the end. They go in the building that they're renovating and they're talking. Who knows what they're saying? Obviously Trump's trying to get Powell to quit, because Trump doesn't want to fire him, and they come back out and they have this press conference and, at one point, Tim Scott says something like, 'God, I wish we just didn't have to talk about the cost of renovations and we could just focus on interest rates,' as if Donald Trump hasn't been pushing this entire thing as a predicate for firing Powell."

"It felt like an episode of Veep, honestly," he added.

MSNBC host Ali Vitali jumped in with, "Maybe it was a late addition, he doesn't have the hard hat, I don't know. But I mean, that was the first question that I asked David Gura on [MSNBC show] 'Way Too Early,' when we were talking about this story, is what did Tim Scott do that he had to support the president but not get a hard hat in the process?"


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