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CBS News
2 days ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Biden to speak at Juneteenth event at historic church in Galveston, Texas
Washington — Former President Joe Biden is set to head to Galveston, Texas, on Thursday to join a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church. The event will be held at the Reedy Chapel AME Church, one of the locations where an order announcing the end of slavery in Texas was read on June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, according to the church. In 2021, Biden signed into law a measure that made June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Called the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, the bill passed the House with overwhelming support and was approved by unanimous voice vote in the Senate. Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country, and continues to take." Juneteenth became the nation's first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Rep. Jasmine Crockett insists ‘granddaddy' Biden's acuity ‘supreme' compared to Trump
Firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended former President Joe Biden's mental acuity and argued that his cognition was 'supreme' compared to President Trump during a recent podcast interview. Shrugging off bombshell revelations about Biden's decline from the new book 'Original Sin' and elsewhere, Crockett (D-Texas) underscored that she 'never saw anything' from the 46th president that caused her to question his infirmity. 'Even if we want to say — which I refuse to accept — that Joe Biden was mentally deficient, let me tell you something, his mental deficiency is still a thousand times better than what we currently have,' Crockett said on Katie Couric's 'Next Question' podcast in an episode that dropped Thursday. Advertisement 'I just wish that, ultimately, this country would judge each of our leaders with the same measuring stick.' Questions about Biden's cognitive abilities reached a fever pitch almost exactly a year ago in the aftermath of his fumbling debate performance against Trump, in which he repeatedly lost his train of thought and appeared stone-faced at times, mouth agape. 3 The Texas congresswoman said in her personal experience with him, former President Joe Biden seemed fine. Getty Images for SiriusXM Advertisement 3 The former president was poised to attend an African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas, to celebrate Juneteenth on Thursday. AP The stunning debate prompted a revolt among Democrats that ultimately culminated with Biden dropping out of the race in July of last year. Recently, those dramatic events have been revisited in the bombshell book 'Original Sin' by star Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, triggering soul searching among Democrats over Biden, who announced his prostate cancer diagnosis last month. On Wednesday, the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Biden's use of autopen and his supposed cognitive decline. The House Oversight Committee is conducting a similar probe. Advertisement Crockett had stood by Biden during the Democratic revolt last summer. She likened his condition to that of her grandmother, whom the rep said 'mentally she was still there' despite aging and slowing down. 3 President Trump has publicly bashed Rep. Jasmine Crockett. AP 'We all slow down. But I will tell you that I will take a broken — or however they want to describe Joe Biden — over Donald Trump any given day, because, number one, I know Joe Biden's heart,' the Texas Democrat contended. 'Even if you're saying that there was a mentally deficient Joe Biden, I know that he absolutely had a mental acuity that is supreme when it comes to comparing him to Donald Trump, because at least he kept good people around him.' Advertisement The outspoken Texas congresswoman also recalled her personal interactions with Biden to argue that he was not in significant decline during his time running the country. 'The average person has not been given the level of access that the average member of Congress has to the president,' she explained. 'I never saw anything in Joe Biden that made me wonder whatsoever, and it's not that I was with Joe Biden every single day, that's for sure. But as I talked about my grandparents — the way that I would describe Joe is like, I mean, he's a granddaddy, right?'
3 days ago
- Politics
Joe Biden to attend Juneteenth celebration at historic AME church in Texas
WASHINGTON -- Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The former Democratic president's plans were confirmed by a person with knowledge of them but not authorized to discuss logistics publicly. In 2021, Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The day marks the end of slavery by commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston. The event Thursday will be held at the Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston. That church, the first and oldest operating AME church in the state, is one of the locations where an order announcing the end of slavery in Texas was announced on that day in 1865, according to the Galveston County Daily News.
Toronto Star
3 days ago
- Politics
- Toronto Star
Joe Biden to attend Juneteenth celebration at historic AME church in Texas
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The former Democratic president's plans were confirmed by a person with knowledge of them but not authorized to discuss logistics publicly. In 2021, Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The day marks the end of slavery by commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The event Thursday will be held at the Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston. That church, the first and oldest operating AME church in the state, is one of the locations where an order announcing the end of slavery in Texas was announced on that day in 1865, according to the Galveston County Daily News.
3 days ago
- Politics
Former president Joe Biden to attend Juneteenth celebration at historic AME church in Galveston
WASHINGTON -- Former president Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas. The ex-president's plans were confirmed by a person with knowledge of them but not authorized to discuss logistics publicly. In 2021, Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The day marks the end of slavery by commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston. The event Thursday will be held at the Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston. That church, the first and oldest operating AME church in the state, is one of the locations where an order announcing the end of slavery in Texas was announced on that day in 1865, according to the Galveston County Daily News.
