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 

[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.

[VTenigma]

Where are Chuck Barris and J.P.Morgan when we really need them. This moron needs the gong.

[Deplorable American1776]

I knew that there are brain dead people in the Senate, however, didn't think Strom Thurmond was dead in the Senate.

Joe Isuzu would be a better president than Biden.. 🤓

[SunkenCiv]

He voted against it, it passed, he switched parties, in that order. In the Senate, among others Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), voted against.

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In 1942, at 39, after the U.S. formally entered World War II, Judge Thurmond resigned from the bench to serve in the U.S. Army, rising to lieutenant colonel. In the Battle of Normandy (June 6 – August 25, 1944), he landed in a glider attached to the 82nd Airborne Division. [wikipedia]

[vetvetdoug]

Another blatant lie by Biden that the MSM, Democrats, and Blacks will defend.

[vetvetdoug]

plagiarism is a lie...

It must be a qualification for the National Holiday that we've set aside for MLK,Jr. We have ignored academic honesty to give blacks an affirmative action holiday.

[Eleutheria5]

Well, Al Gore invented the Internet.

[jpp113]

And I believe Biden voted against it too

[MrRelevant]

Nah just a scumbag then, now he is literally dementia riddled and has no control over his lying....because he believes them....still a scumbag but a feeble minded one.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

"Walter Mitty" Biden does it again!

[Toespi]

“In February of 1988, he suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms. Biden has said the experience shaped him into the “kind of man I want to be.”

Maybe not brain aneurysms at all, probably when he got his hair plugs.

[nopardons]

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