The marchers soon arrived at the Statehouse, where a Confederate flag once flew over the dome. As a recording of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was broadcast over a loudspeaker, a crowd of several thousand people converged on the capitol grounds. “You’re going to freeze,” Mr. Biden said to a woman seated near a sidewalk as he passed by. (It was a chilly day by South Carolina standards — 37 degrees.) Tom Steyer, the billionaire businessman who polled at 15 percent in South Carolina in a recent Fox News survey, tying him with Mr. Sanders for second place, called on Americans to “channel Dr. King” and take action against a government that he described as hostile to the hungry and others in need.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2020 15:43 UTC