Senate’s only black GOP member, Tim Scott, endorses Jeff Sessions

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Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator in Congress, has announced on Monday that he would support President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

Scott said that he put “special emphasis” on researching Session’s record because he was aware of the allegations of racial comments when Sessions was a federal prosecutor. These allegations cost Sessions his bid in 1986 to become a federal judge.

For this reason, Scott said, he made sure to sit down with Sessions to determine what kind of man he was.

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“We had what both the attendees and I believe to be a very productive conversation, which gave us all a clearer picture of not only Jeff’s policy positions, but what is in his heart,” Scott said in a statement on Monday.

Scott pointed to the good parts of Session’s record, such as prosecuting a member of the Ku Klux Klan and voting to confirm Eric Holder, the first black U.S. attorney general.

“We may not agree on everything, but you would be hard-pressed to find a nominee for any post that any Senator is in 100 percent agreement with,” Scott said. “I have gotten to know Jeff over my four years in the Senate, and have found him to be a consistently fair person.”