The former vice president also went heavy on the Obama nostalgia in a state where the Democratic primary is likely to be decided by black voters.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Joe Biden, speaking Saturday in a state key to his political survival and where black voters represent the majority in Democratic presidential primaries, invoked the history of voter discrimination and said the country is headed backward.
With that throwback to laws that promoted segregation, Biden then reminded the crowd of election results last year in Georgia and Florida, states elected white Republican governors over black Democrats. Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia race but is a rising star in national politics, has met with Biden and has suggested her defeat was attributable to voter suppression tactics.
The 76-year-old is aware that his history as vice president to the nation’s first black president separates from his more than 20 rivals for the nomination. Accordingly he had mentioned Barack Obama everywhere — from Pittsburgh to Dubuque, Iowa — in his first 10 days in the race. Here on Saturday, though, he hit the Obama shout-outs particularly hard.
“I know he’ll take some heat from some of the legislation that was passed during the Clinton era, as it relates to African Americans,” Travis Lincoln, a black voter from Columbia who works with homeless veterans and considers criminal justice reform a key issue, told BuzzFeed News while waiting for Biden’s speech here.
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