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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Tim Scott's chances of being the Republican nominee + who is responsible for the looming debt ceiling disaster

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Steve Schmidt breaks down Tim Scott’s presidential announcement speech. He discusses the possibility of the senator from South Carolina surpassing Ron DeSantis in the polls and challenging former President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee in 2024. Later, Steve Schmidt breaks down the reports of stalled negotiations between Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden over increasing the debt limit. He discusses how all political parties have abandoned fiscal responsibility and why Kevin McCarthy is in over his head at the negotiating table.

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0:20.3

Tim Scott, the junior United States Senator from South Carolina has thrown his hat into the ring,

0:27.2

seeking to become the MAGA GOP nominee.

0:31.1

Now, the announcement speech is an important day in any candidacy.

0:35.4

It tells us a lot about the candidate, about how he thinks, about what he

0:40.6

believes about himself, what it is that they see staring back when they look in the mirror

0:46.3

and come to the conclusion that it is they who should be the most powerful person on earth,

0:52.9

the person in charge of America's potent nuclear

0:57.2

arsenal. We'll take apart Tim Scott's speech today. We'll analyze it. We'll look for what makes

1:04.1

him special unique. And we'll assess, can he win the Republican nomination? Can he deep-thrown Donald Trump as the Maggot came?

1:15.0

I've said earlier that I expect that Tim Scott will be securely in second place by July 4th.

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I expect that he will dethrone Ron DeSantis and become Donald Trump's chief competitor.

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Understanding his speech, help explains why.

1:33.1

Tim Scott is running a traditional, up from your bootstraps story,

1:38.5

steeped in the American mythology that anything is possible if you work hard and play by the rules.

1:46.0

Tim Scott talks about this at length.

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He talks about his mother, working 16 hours a day,

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and he even regales his audience with a story about how his mother severely beat him,

1:59.0

sending him onto the straight and narrow path.

2:02.5

Let's watch.

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