Biden goes after Trump in second straight speech for pushing 'second lost cause' [View all]
Source: The Hill
01/08/24 1:30 PM ET
President Biden on Monday sought to connect the fallout of the Civil War with the aftermath of the 2020 election as he warned truth and basic freedoms would be at risk if former President Trump won another term in the White House. Biden drew comparisons between 2020 and the Civil War, when he said defeated Confederates could not accept defeat and instead embraced the “lost cause” that the war was about state’s rights, not slavery.
That lie, he argued, brought on Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised and discriminated against Black people. “Now, we’re living in an era of a second lost cause,” Biden said. “Once again there are some in this country trying to turn loss into a lie. A lie which, if allowed to live, will once again bring terrible damage to this country. This time the lie is about the 2020 election.”
His comments came days after GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley in late December said the cause of the Civil War was about the role of government. Former President Trump, the front-runner in the GOP primary, suggested in recent days the Civil War could have been negotiated. “Let me be clear for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. There is no negotiation about that,” Biden said Monday.
The president spoke at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, where a white supremacist gunman killed nine people, all of whom were Black. Following the shooting, South Carolina lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds. Biden warned the “truth is under assault in America.”
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