Charleston, SC: First Lady Jill Biden visited a cancer center in the state on Monday, which played a key role in her husband’s victory in the 2020 Democratic nomination process, telling South Carolinians that cancer touches every American family.
In the last days of October, a month dedicated to breast cancer awareness, the first lady said she was traveling as part of a continuing commitment to advance research efforts toward a cure.
One of the women Biden spoke to was LaToya Wilson, a mother of two children and a stage 4 breast cancer patient who said she was 37 when she was first diagnosed.
We need more minorities as part of these trials, Wilson, who is Black, told Biden, crediting her survival to participating in the clinical trials.
Many women, especially black women, are living with breast cancer, Biden replied.
Biden, 70, has been vocal about the role cancer has played in her life, most directly after her son Beau died of brain cancer at age 46. That loss also occurred a week earlier in her visit to South Carolina, when she attended events at Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, where she said the affair with the priest’s wife helped her regain her faith after Beauce’s death. helped to do.
The first lady met breast cancer survivors, researchers and mammography specialists at Hollings Cancer Center, named after the late US Sen. Fritz Hollings. The longtime South Carolina Democrat was President Joe Biden’s Capitol Hill deskmate during his decades in the Senate, and Jill Biden said both the senator and his late wife, Ptsy, were very special to us.
Afterwards, Jill Biden stops at Joint Base Charleston, a facility that houses the pilots and crew who evacuated more than 120,000 Americans, Afghans and other allies from Kabul at the end of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan last summer. Participated in the airlift. During the brief remarks, Biden said the base’s crew “distinguished themselves in the execution of one of the largest humanitarian airlifts ever.”
President Biden has defended America’s decision to end the longest war and withdraw all troops before the August 31 deadline, despite a spate of violence, including a suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and 169 Afghans. were killed.
Several recent visits by the first lady to South Carolina have demonstrated the administration’s appreciation for the state. South Carolina, South Carolina, was the scene of Joe Biden’s political resurgence after a weak showing in earlier contests in 2020.
Days before the primaries, Biden garnered the support of longtime ally US House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of Congress and the dean of the South Carolinas Democrats.
By winning South Carolina by nearly 30 percentage points, Biden’s victory was enough to pounce on a handful of contestants who backed him in rapid succession. The victory also helped propel him to victory in the Super Tuesday states, the momentum that propelled Biden to the party’s nomination.
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Meg Kinnard can be contacted at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP.
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