Scott, who is the nation s lone Black Republican senator, touched on the national conversation around systemic racism while giving the GOP s rebuttal to Biden s speech before Congress on Wednesday night. America is not a racist country, the junior senator from South Carolina said, adding that he is an African American who has voted in the South his whole life. It’s wrong to try to use our painful past to try to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.
In an excerpt from an exclusive interview with TODAY s Craig Melvin that appeared on NBC Nightly News Thursday, Biden was asked if America is a racist country.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. File
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PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday offered his condolences to all those who have lost their dear ones due to lack of treatment and said prayers and sympathies from every state of the country are with them. India saw 3,86,452 new coronavirus infections in a span of 24 hours, the highest single-day rise so far, pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,87,62,976, while active cases crossed the 31 lakh-mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
The death toll increased to 2,08,330 with 3,498 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 a.m. showed.
Kerala Polls: Key Faces to Look Out for on Election Results Day
The state election results are scheduled to be declared on May 2.
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New Delhi: In the run-up to the single phase election for 140 assembly seats, Kerala witnessed a fierce campaign led by the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-led NDA, which hopes to fracture the decades-old bipolar polity led by UDF and LDF. The state election results are scheduled to be declared on May 2.
Here are some of the key candidates to keep an eye out for on May 2.
Scott, who is the nation s lone Black Republican senator, touched on the national conversation around systemic racism while giving the GOP s rebuttal to Biden s speech before Congress on Wednesday night. America is not a racist country, the junior senator from South Carolina said, adding that he is an African American who has voted in the South his whole life. It’s wrong to try to use our painful past to try to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.
In an excerpt from an exclusive interview with TODAY s Craig Melvin that appeared on NBC Nightly News Thursday, Biden was asked if America is a racist country.