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The Anointed One?

by David Kurtz
12.06.12 | 6:30 am

Jim DeMint’s own choice to succeed him in the Senate is Rep. Tim Scott, a conservative African American freshman congressman representing South Carolina’s 1st District, a GOP official in the state tells TPM.

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