Live: Joe Biden appeals to South Carolina voters in effort to recharge election bid

Watch live as Joe Biden speaks at the historic Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, 8 January, as part of his efforts to recharge his 2024 campaign for re-election. The US president is making a speech at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the site of a federal hate crime in 2015 in which nine Black church members were killed by a white supremacist. Mr Biden is expected to highlight the importance of preserving democratic institutions to combat hate and extremism during his visit. It comes after a Democratic lawmaker, who was credited with saving Mr Biden’s 2020 campaign, expressed the worry that the president is not breaking through the “MAGA wall” ahead of the likely 2024 rematch with Donald Trump. Jim Clyburn revived Mr Biden’s 2020 campaign after poor results in the initial contests of Iowa, where he placed fourth, and New Hampshire, where he came in fifth place. After Mr Clyburn’s powerful endorsement in his home state, Mr Biden wo
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