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TexasTowelie

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Thu Dec 16, 2021, 12:34 AM Dec 2021

'Wow!': Suggestion of Joe Biden visit drew big reaction from SC State University president

South Carolina State University Interim President Alexander Conyers was alarmed when U.S. Rep. James Clyburn called him around 11 p.m. last Thursday and said he had changed his mind about speaking at the school's graduation ceremony.

Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Conyers said the Democratic congressman told him, "I just don't think I'll be a great commencement speaker."

"Now I am thinking, 'Congressman, this is Thursday. Graduation is a week from now,'" Conyers said.

"I would like to offer up the president," Conyers recalled Clyburn then saying.

Read more: https://www.independentmail.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2021/12/15/joe-biden-president-visit-sc-state-university-graduation/8908268002/
(Anderson Independent Mail)

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'Wow!': Suggestion of Joe Biden visit drew big reaction from SC State University president (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2021 OP
Hope they are inspired by the Speakers. It's your turn to make this country better. nt OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2021 #1
Like this kind of stuff. Hoyt Dec 2021 #2
I think President Biden should go on a speaking tour across the nation. Progressive Jones Dec 2021 #3

Progressive Jones

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3. I think President Biden should go on a speaking tour across the nation.
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 02:21 AM
Dec 2021

I think he could add a few Democratic voters in various quarters.
He can take his message to everyone.
Democracy is in danger, and he needs to make that clear to the American people.

Televised "fire side chats", too. A lot of talk is made of messaging. The state we're in right now
offers a perfect opportunity.

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