Biden fondly remembers lunches with ‘real segregationists’

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President Joe Biden fondly recalled eating lunch with segregationist members of the Senate while delivering remarks in Ohio on Friday.

The memory of his shared experiences with late Sens. Strom Thurmond and James Eatland came up as Biden harkened back to signing the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law last year and acknowledged the roles of Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), both of whom were in attendance at United Performance Metals in Hamilton.

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