ATLANTA — Joe Biden, in a Sunday sermon at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, used the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic pulpit to build bridges with Black voters as he gears up for a reelection bid.
Alluding to his failure to deliver on a key campaign promise — to restore voting rights protections erased by the Supreme Court in 2013 — he recalled King’s “epic struggle for civil rights and voting rights.”
“I have two heroes: Bobby Kennedy. ... And no malarkey, Dr. King,” Biden told the congregation. “Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a nonviolent warrior for justice. ... We come to contemplate his moral vision and commit ourselves to his path.”
