Vice president speaks at South Carolina MLK Day event
COLUMBIA, S.C. - We’re less than three weeks out from South Carolina’s first-in-the nation Democratic presidential primary — and the Biden-Harris campaign is ramping up its efforts in the Palmetto State.
On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Columbia to speak at the annual “King Day at the Dome” and meet with voters.
Monday’s trip to Columbia marked Harris’ eighth trip to South Carolina as vice president— and second so far this year.
“The great Coretta Scott King once said, ‘Freedom is never truly won. You earn it, and win it in every generation,’ and at this moment in history at this moment, in history in the relay race of history, I say then, ‘Let us not throw up our hands because it’s time to roll up our sleeves,’” she said.
Harris told the crowd gathered outside the State House on Monday afternoon that the ideal of freedom – for which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his life – is now threatened, including abortion access and LGBTQ rights.
After speaking at the King Day event, Harris headed to a campaign event in Lower Richland. She urged voters to get out like they did in South Carolina in 2020, when their efforts boosted President Joe Biden to the Democratic nomination en route to the White House.
The vice president told them South Carolina sets the tone by being first in the nation — and she says there’s a lot at stake as the country moves toward the November general election.
COMING UP:
- President Joe Biden will make another trip to the Palmetto State this month. Biden will return to South Carolina a week before the state’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary as the special guest for the South Carolina Democratic Party’s Jan. 27 celebration dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds.
“There is a full-on, intentional attack against hard-fought and hard-won freedoms and rights, the kind that so many leaders, historically and currently, fought for here in South Carolina, certainly that Dr. King did,” she said.
Before she headed back to Washington — the vice president made one more stop to speak with the Gamecock women’s basketball team ahead of USC’s game against Kentucky tonight.
She commended the team on its accomplishments – and told Coach Dawn Staley – “Coach, you’re killing it!”
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