South Carolina: A Year Later - By Joe Biden

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Joe Biden

1 hour ago·4 min read

A year ago, I stood in Columbia, South Carolina, grateful that the voters of the Palmetto State–and especially the backbone of the Democratic Party, the African-American community–had set us on a course to the presidency.

That night, I said that ours was a campaign for the people who had been knocked down, counted out, and left behind. I spoke about the cost of anger and division in the country and the need to unite America.

That night, as I prepared to speak, the United States confirmed our 69th coronavirus case. As a nation, we were just beginning to understand how much our lives would soon be upended.

The world has changed dramatically in the past year. Our nation has begun to grapple with a long-overdue reckoning on racial justice. Our democracy endured a violent insurrection in our Capitol. As a people, we mourned the more than a half million lives lost to COVID-19, and the economic devastation that has hammered so many more families, small businesses, and communities. Add to that the increasing need to confront our changing climate, and it is a confluence of crises perhaps unprecedented in our history.

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