President Joe Biden has claimed he managed to convince the late Democratic Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, to vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act after he left the Senate in 2009. The only problem is: Thurmond died in 2003. Actually, there’s another problem. The Act passed in 1965. Okay, there’s a third problem. That was eight years before Biden even became a Delaware Senator. Oh, and Thurmond didn’t vote for it. So, four problems.
Biden — who made the claim in a recent interview with ProPublica — was perhaps talking about the Voting Rights Act reauthorization in 1982. But that still doesn’t explain his comment, which he begins with: “When I left the Senate,” before going on to explain how he was “able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act.”
Biden has long been a fantasist and plagiarist, mixing up old stories and straight up inventing others. He recently claimed to have been at Ground Zero the day after 9/11, which even CNN called “another false claim about his own past.”
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BIDEN: "When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act."
Thurmond died in 2003, while Biden didn't leave the Senate until 2009. The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, before Biden was in office. pic.twitter.com/0Xg95MWyVN
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