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By Trevor Hunnicutt
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday marked the Jan. 6, 2021, assaults on the U.S. Capitol with remarks in South Carolina, the place the state’s Democratic major can be held on Feb. 3.
Harris spoke on the anniversary of the lethal assaults after Biden provided scathing criticism of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s actions that day in a speech close to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Friday.
The vice chairman delivered the keynote handle on the seventh Episcopal District AME Church Girls’s Missionary Society annual retreat in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina.
“Three years ago today, on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob violently attacked the United States Capitol they used brutal force and fear to try to overturn the results of a free and fair election. They tried to overrule the votes of millions of Americans,” Harris stated.
“On that day, we saw violence, chaos, and lawlessness, but some so-called leaders still tried to mislead and gaslight by saying it was a peaceful protest,” she stated.
Trump hit again at Biden in his first go to to Iowa this yr on Friday. “Not one thing has gotten better under crooked Joe Biden. Everything’s a mess,” Trump stated to a number of hundred supporters on the rally within the state. Trump solely briefly addressed the occasions of Jan. 6, repeating unfounded claims that the 2020 contest was marred by widespread voter fraud. He was slated to speak in Iowa afterward Saturday.
Biden credit South Carolina with catapulting him to the White Home in 2020, and the state was moved to the highest spot within the occasion’s nominating calendar, forward of Iowa and New Hampshire.
The AME, or African Methodist Episcopal church, shaped in response to racial discrimination in an American Methodist church within the late 1700s, has hundreds of congregations worldwide and a number of other million members. Biden will converse on the Mom Emanuel AME in South Carolina on Monday, the place 9 members have been killed by a white supremacist in 2015.
Though Biden is just not dealing with severe competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination, polls present he has misplaced some assist from Black voters nationwide. A robust major turnout in a state the place the vast majority of Democratic voters are Black would calm fears about his electability among the many occasion.
Earlier than an viewers of a whole lot of principally Black ladies church leaders, Harris stated the viewers’s assist had lifted Biden to the White Home and led to the growth of postpartum care and the substitute of lead pipes in largely Black communities. She stated some Republicans supposed to roll again their reproductive healthcare and voting rights.
“Allow us to not throw up our arms. It’s time to roll up our sleeves. We have been born for a time equivalent to this and we love our nation,” Harris stated.
The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants for 3 Jan. 6 fugitives early on Saturday at a ranch in Groveland, Florida, it stated. Taken into custody have been Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock, and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson, it stated. They’re scheduled to seem in federal court docket in Ocala, Florida, on Jan. 8.