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Biden claims to have 'literally' convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for Civil Rights Act — at 21 years old
Fox News ^ | August 28, 2023 | Houston Keene 

Posted on 08/29/2023 6:49:33 AM PDT by lowbridge

President Biden on Monday claimed to have "literally" convinced South Carolina Democrat-turned-Republican Senator Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act — when he was just 21 years old.

Biden made the claim while speaking on the 60th anniversary on the founding of the civil rights legal group, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

"Pause for just a moment," Biden said at the White House. "I thought things had changed." 

"I was able to — literally, not figuratively — talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died," the president continued.

"And I thought, ‘well, maybe there’s real progress,'" he added. "But hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the rocks."

While Thurmond and Biden were contemporaries in the Senate, the president would have been 21 at the time of the landmark legislation's passing — and nowhere near the Senate seat he won at 29 years old.

Additionally, Thurmond died in June 2003 — nearly four decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Biden was instrumental in getting Thurmond's vote for the Voting Rights Act, in 1980.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; dementiajoe; literallylied; lyinbiden; pathologicalliar; thurmond
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Thurmond voted against the Civil rights act in 1964.
1 posted on 08/29/2023 6:49:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Biden is so corrupt he can’t even lie properly..................


2 posted on 08/29/2023 6:53:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: lowbridge

Biden just “says stuff”.

If it sounds kind of good, then the mission is accomplished. None of it has to be true.


3 posted on 08/29/2023 6:54:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: lowbridge
Biden just makes sh*t up off the top of his head without even considering plausibility.
And it's not because he's senile. He has always done this.
4 posted on 08/29/2023 6:54:51 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: lowbridge

Briben is such a lying liar that lying is his natural state, and he doesn’t even know he’s lying because he believes his own lies.


5 posted on 08/29/2023 6:55:02 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: lowbridge

Boy Howdy, Joe’s silver (forked) tongue was as persuasive in 1963 as it is today.


6 posted on 08/29/2023 6:55:10 AM PDT by Tupelo (ex uno multis)
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To: lowbridge

Pedo Joe’s mentor and close friend was Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd (RAT-WV), a high ranking member of the KKK.


7 posted on 08/29/2023 6:55:23 AM PDT by twister881
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To: lowbridge

Joe can’t remember what he had for breakfast let alone something from 60 years ago. Biden’s a world joke of the sad state of affairs in this Republic. Worse yet, the world thinks the people of the United States voted this clown into office.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 6:56:09 AM PDT by econjack
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To: lowbridge
Bidet is sounding more and more like Brian Williams.


9 posted on 08/29/2023 6:56:47 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: lowbridge

Biden may have confused the Civil Rights Act with an extension of the Voting Rights Act. Did Biden “literally, and not figuratively” convince Thurmond to vote for that? Most likely it was the changes in Strom’s state and in the country.


10 posted on 08/29/2023 6:59:57 AM PDT by x
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before he died ???

Strom was alive and kicking and dancing 20 years later...

I know I danced with him at a GOP Christmas party on James Island ...

He liked to dance with the young women

:)


11 posted on 08/29/2023 7:00:50 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: lowbridge

He might be claiming he got Thurmond to say he’d have changed his vote some years later.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 7:00:59 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: ClearCase_guy

He is senile - part of his condition is a symptom called confabulation.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 7:01:34 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: lowbridge

The same Biden who bragged about working and getting things done in the senate with segregationists like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.


14 posted on 08/29/2023 7:02:20 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: x

“Biden may have confused the Civil Rights Act with an extension of the Voting Rights Act.“

Yeah that’s it /s


15 posted on 08/29/2023 7:02:54 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: econjack

“Biden’s a world joke of the sad state of affairs in this Republic. Worse yet, the world thinks the people of the United States voted this clown into office.”

***********

There was a time when this country would not have tolerated this kind of national embarrassment, and it wasn’t all that long ago. It shows how fast our decline has been.


16 posted on 08/29/2023 7:04:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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Biden is a lying sack of …

I don’t know if anybody has noticed or not, but there were a bunch of blacks protesting FOR Trump down in Atlanta. There was a poll the other day that indicated that blacks are shifting away from Democrats and away from Biden. It’s certainly not a majority of blacks, but there’s a shift anyways. There’s an opportunity here and I don’t see Ronna over at the RNC doing anything about it. Biden just gave a perfect setup for a political ad. More than that, Biden just gave the perfect setup for unified Republican talking points for the next three days: Democrats have only made things worse for blacks and they constantly lie to blacks. Republicans make life better for blacks, just look at what Trump did for black unemployment and wealth. Trump didn’t do it just for blacks, he did it for all Americans.

17 posted on 08/29/2023 7:04:24 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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Biden is a lying sack of …

Shaving Cream
Be nice and clean
Shave every day
And you'll always look keen

18 posted on 08/29/2023 7:06:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MrRelevant

He is senile - part of his condition is a symptom called confabulation.

**************

Or just simply dishonesty. 10% for the Big Guy don’t forget.


19 posted on 08/29/2023 7:06:09 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: lowbridge

Biden makes a lot of “claims” that are complete and utter bullshit.


20 posted on 08/29/2023 7:06:10 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Biden-Fetterman 2024. It's A No Brainer")
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