Fellow Conservative,
This election is between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but it is not solely about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. This election is about the promise of America.
It’s about the American people -- our challenges and heartbreaks, hopes and dreams. It’s about how we respond when tackling critical issues facing our country. Do we want a society that breeds success or one that cancels it?
I know where I stand because I am living my mother’s American Dream.
My parents divorced when I was 7 years old. For a while we moved into a two-bedroom house with my grandparents -- me, my mom, and my brother sharing a bed.
My mom worked 16 hours a day to try to keep food on our table and a roof over our heads. She knew that if we could just find the opportunity, bigger things would come for my brother and me.
I was convinced I had to use football to succeed in life. I flunked the ninth grade as my focus on academics faded away. But my mother never lost faith in me, even when I had lost faith in myself.
The next year I met my mentor, a Chick-fil-A operator who taught me valuable life lessons, like how having a job was good, but creating jobs was better, and that an income could change my lifestyle, but a profit could change my community!
I went on to attend college, start a business, and run for public office.
The life lessons of my childhood have informed the issues that President Trump and I have worked on:
- Opportunity Zones that are bringing over 70 billion dollars of private sector investment into distressed communities.
- School choice to make sure every child, in every zip code, in every neighborhood has a quality education.
- A tax code that encourages growth, and a regulatory system that provides safety and fairness.
Tim Scott