Welcome back to season 3 of journeys of faith as you know we're dedicating this

season to the election cycle will be speaking with 20-20 candidates and

other political figures about how their faith influences who they are and how they think. He's the only African American

Republican in the Senate which he says can make his life a little uncomfortable.

Our next guest is Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina and a close ally of President

Trump.

On this episode, Senator Scott joins us on the whether or not he thinks the president is racist and as he's quoting Bible

scriptures Scott opens up about one day trading politics for the pulpit.

Here's Senator Tim Scott from DC.

Joining us now is Senator Tim Scott from his office on Capitol Hill.

Senator, thanks for joining us on the podcast.

Absolutely, Paul, it's good to be with you.

Thank you for the invite.

Of course.

So honored to be talking to you, Senator, and we want to really dig in your own personal

faith journey and how that influences person and policy how it's

been instrumental in the man that you've become today and instrumental in how you

governed there from Capitol Hill. So tell me a little bit about your childhood. I was

reading your parents were divorced when you were really young. Your mother

moved you and your brother's back to her native South Carolina. That's where

you subsequently grew up you lived with your

grandparents and she was working double shift as a nursing assistant and

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