With the battle for South Carolina drawing to a close Saturday with the state’s Republican presidential primary, former president Donald Trump addressed the Black Conservative Federation’s gala event on Friday evening.
Trump was on hand to make remarks and pick up an award as the “Champion of Black America.” But let’s back up a little bit first. As my colleague Becky Noble wrote, on Wednesday, President Joe Biden tried to use the late Senator Strom Thurmond as a cudgel to attack his GOP opponents as racist and anti-democratic:
Appearing at a fundraiser on Wednesday, Joe Biden did what he and Democrats do best: call Republicans racist. Biden remarked that the “current GOP is worse than the ‘real racists'” that he served with as a young Senator in the 1970s. He compared today’s Republican Party to Sen. Strom Thurmond, who served in the Senate from 1954 until he died in 2003. As a…
