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Martin Pengelly in New York

Tim Scott booed by audience on The View for defending Ron DeSantis

Scott is the first Black senator elected in a southern state since Reconstruction, after the civil war.
Scott is the first Black senator elected in a southern state since Reconstruction, after the civil war. Photograph: Dave Kaup/Reuters

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott was booed by a television audience – and rescued by Whoopi Goldberg – after he defended Florida governor Ron DeSantis and claimed American children were being “indoctrinated” regarding LGBTQ+ issues.

The South Carolina senator, 57, also accused hosts of ABC’s The View of voicing a “dangerous, offensive, disgusting message to send to our young people today”, in contending that his success is an exception in a systemically racist society.

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