Biden’s trip is his latest event aimed at underscoring his commitment to Black voters, who helped propel him to the White House and remain a key constituency going into his expected 2024 re-election bid.
It also came as his efforts to pass voting rights legislation have stalled in Congress.
“Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty,” Biden said in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where state troopers clubbed and used tear gas against the 1965 voting-rights marchers.
“With it, anything’s possible. Without it, without that right, nothing is possible. And this fundamental right remains under assault.”
After his remarks, Biden marched across the bridge accompanied by civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and members of his administration.
Coverage of the brutality of that day against the marchers, including John Lewis, a Black civil rights activist who…
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