Pres. Biden dug into Republican opposition to advancing federal voting rights legislation during a commencement address at South Carolina State University.
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"I've never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to vote. Never," Biden said Friday during his address to the graduates. "But this new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion, it's un-American, it's undemocratic, and sadly, it is unprecedented since Reconstruction," he said.
Those marchers were"carrying torches and Nazi banners, screeching [the] most antisemitic and anti-Black rhetoric in history," Biden said. The university also gave a degree to Rep. Jim Clyburn, a Democrat representing South Carolina. Clyburn graduated from South Carolina State University in December 1961 but only received his diploma by mail and did not walk across the aisle until Friday's ceremony.US Representative Jim Clyburn, President Joe Biden and Interim South Carolina State University President, Alexander Conyers, arrive for the university's graduation ceremony in Orangeburg, S.C., Dec. 17, 2021.
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