Sen. Tim Scott endorsed Donald Trump for president over Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate in 2012, replacing  Sen. Jim DeMint.

“We need a president who will close our southern border today. We need Donald Trump,” Scott said while appearing on stage with the former president at a Concord, New Hampshire, campaign event. 

Trump was the 45th president of the United States, beginning with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ending on January 20, 2021. 

Scott’s endorsement of Trump came a few days before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the Republican presidential race.

Scott backed Trump before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.

“We need a president who will unite our country. We need Donald Trump,” he continued. “We need a president who will protect your Social Security and my mama’s Social Security. We need Donald Trump,” Scott said.

Scott could become Trump’s vice president if he is elected. He insisted that America is not a racist country.

However, racial disparities exist in the U. S. healthcare system, its criminal justice system, its educational system, and its economic system. 

Those gaps are wide. They are persistent. And, in some cases, racial disparities have grown over time rather than narrowed, according to the Guardian, a British newspaper.

Dataset after dataset, from non-partisan think tanks to government sources, consistently show these racial disparities. And, unless one believes inherent, biological differences exist between racial groups in the U.S. that would explain their differing success in the country (a belief that would, by the way, be racist), the only possible explanation for all this is structural racism, the Guardian reported.

Scott’s view about America not being racist is in line with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who is now running for the Republican presidential nomination.

Haley, who is Indian American and is also a former ambassador to the United Nations, continues to insist that America isn’t a racist country, although she experienced racism as a young woman and only a Historically Black College would give her father a job. Her family was warned by their landlord not to host Negroes in their home.

Adding more confusion for Black voters, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the National of Islam says he likes what Trump says but stops short of endorsing him.

Minister Farrakhan is called an anomaly because he is destroying every organization that has blocked Black men and Black women from achieving their individual goals.