Will ‘Cease-Fire Now’ Drown Out ‘Biden 2024’?

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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President Biden has started to switch gears into campaign mode. On the trail, he’s particularly focused on South Carolina, which holds the first official Democratic primary contest on Saturday. And one of his first campaign events of the year took him to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, for a speech that addressed the dangers of white supremacy. But a few minutes into the speech, he was interrupted by protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Since that day in early January, it seems as if wherever Biden goes, protesters are ready to voice their dissatisfaction with the way the administration is handling the war between Israel and Hamas. Today: The activists drowning out the president at campaign events. And the Arab American swing state mayor, Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn, Mich., on why he declined a recent invitation from Biden’s team.

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0:00.0	So in the last month, just as former President Trump has been racking up primary wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.
0:10.0	Something else has been happening on the Democratic side.
0:13.0	Thank you.
0:17.0	President Biden has slowly but surely
0:19.0	started to activate campaign low.
0:22.0	Thank you.
0:24.0	It's going to go to my head.
0:27.0	On the trail right now, he's particularly focused on shoring up his standing with black voters, and on South Carolina, which holds the first official
0:36.3	Democratic primary contest this weekend.
0:39.9	One of his first campaign events of 2012. blessed to worship here before as well.
0:43.0	One of his first campaign events of 2024
0:46.0	was at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston.
0:48.9	The word of God was pierced by bullets and hate rage. In his speech that day, Biden spoke about the dangers of white supremacy.
0:57.0	Not just gunpowder, but by a poison.
1:00.0	Poison that's for too long haunted this nation.
1:04.0	And the setting was no accident.
1:07.0	Considering Mother Emanuel is the place where nine churchgoers, all black, were murdered by a white supremacist in 2015.
1:15.0	From that day this nation saw, this congregation, this community, demonstrate one of the greatest acts of strength I have ever seen.
1:26.1	But a few minutes into his speech.
1:27.4	The truth is under assault in America.
1:30.9	As a consequence, so as our freedom, our democracy, our very country, because without the truth,
1:38.1	there's no light. Without light, there's no path from this darkness.
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