Tim Scott, like every member of Congress, received a generic invitation to attend the Dem campaign rally MLK anniversary event, but for obvious reasons the organizers did not ask him to speak (despite the fact that he’s the only black senator).
Via Mediaite:
On Friday, the panel guests on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, guest hosted by Joy-Ann Reid on Friday, savaged Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) who claimed he did not receive an invitation to the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech anniversary celebration but whose office did receive an invitation in early August and declined to attend. MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor and host Touré insisted that Scott could not be seen at an event like the MLK rally because “his constituency” would have punished him for attending that event.
Co-host of The Cycle, Touré, began the segment by noting that Scott was invited in spite of some claims to the contrary, though he was not asked to speak at the rally. “His principles exist at loggerheads with everything they’re trying to do at the march,” he said, explaining the decision not to invite the nation’s only African-American senator to speak. […]
“His people don’t want him here,” Touré added. “And this party has been working for five decades on the ‘Southern Strategy,’ stoking white racial anxiety, saying ‘we don’t want to have anything to do with these folks. These folks are the problem.’”