South Carolina GOP chairman suggests Biden used Charleston church to boost faltering black support

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South Carolina’s Republican chairman suggested on Monday that President Joe Biden’s visit to Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was motivated by his faltering support among a core Democratic constituency: black Americans.

“The fact that he’s spending time in South Carolina, and particularly the venue there today, speaks to the fact that I think they’re worried about the continued erosion that we’ve seen among African Americans for Democrats, and particularly Joe Biden,” Drew McKissick told the Washington Examiner in an interview.

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