Crowd at black church cheers when Biden calls Trump a 'loser' and chants 'four more years' in speech tearing into former president for claiming the Civil War could be 'negotiated' and Nikki Haley saying slavery wasn't a cause

The Daily Mail ^ | 01/08/2024 | Nikki Schwab

[thegagline]

*** Biden traveled to Charleston where he appeared at the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church, as he tries to shore up his 2024 support with black voters.

While at one point, he was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters shouting 'ceasefire now,' he was also awarded with cheers when he called Trump a 'loser' and chants of 'four more years.'

'So let me be clear for those who don't seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War,' Biden said, earning applause. 'There was no negotiation about that.'

Last month, Haley - the former governor of South Carolina - stepped in it when she didn't mention slavery when a New Hamsphire town hall attendee asked her what caused the Civil War. ***

Haley asked the man for his opinion on what started the Civil War and he then commented that he found it 'astonishing' in 2023 that she wouldn't mention the word 'slavery.'

'What do you want me to say about slavery?' Haley then said.

On Saturday, Trump waded in, telling supporters at a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa that he believed the Civil War was 'something that could've been negotiated.'

'The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,' Trump said. 'I'm so attracted to seeing it. So many mistakes were made. See there was something that could've been negotiated, to be honest with you, I think you could have negotiated that.'

He added that President Abraham Lincoln 'if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn't even know who Abraham Lincoln was.'

*** So far, of the three top Republican candidates, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has remained unscathed in the Civil War controversy.

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[hanamizu]

Slavery in the U.S. was going to have to end one way or the other. Lincoln realized this, but had no real Constitutional way to do it. Even after the Civil War had begun, there was no legal way for him to touch slavery in areas not actually in rebellion against the Federal government. Read the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.

How to end slavery peacefully and Constitutionally is hardly ever considered. Great Britain actually paid slave owners in their colonies to end slavery there. How long it would have taken for this to be politically feasible, no one knows. Taxpayers who don’t own slaves paying higher taxes to free the slaves...? Few opposed slavery that much.

Negotiation could well have prevented the war, but as for ending slavery, I don’t know. But it appears that many blacks believe the world and history revolves around them and them alone.

[coalminersson]

need to pull some tac exemptions

[albie]

Give these “people” $10 and they’ll say or do anything.

[mewzilla]

He was heckled according to ither reportage.

By Hamas supporters.

Interesting that the DM left that part out...