Biden says world leaders no wask him if America is going to be all right and where the country's democracy is headed.
President Biden said Friday that the “battle is not over” in his push for voting rights legislation even though little progress has been made on Capitol Hill.
“This new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion is un-American,” he said. “And sadly it’s unprecedented since Reconstruction,” he added, referring to laws enacted to restrict Black Americans from voting after a brief period of inclusion immediately after the Civil War.President Biden returns to South Carolina, the state that saved his candidacy, on Friday for the first time since the election.
Biden said you can defeat hate, but “you can’t eliminate it, it just slides back under the rock. And when given oxygen by political leaders, it comes out as ugly and mean as it was before.”President Biden, left, helps present a diploma to U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, center, along with South Carolina State President Alexander Conyers, right.
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