Presumptive Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden
Joe BidenBiden to pay tribute to Lewis on Capitol Hill on Monday Trump lashes out at the Reagan Foundation after fundraising request Trump’s approval of coronavirus management reaches a new low level MORE will honor the former representative. John Lewis
John Lewis Biden to pay tribute to Lewis on Capitol Hill Monday John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the last time John Lewis’s 7-year-old nephew-grandson calls civil rights icon ‘my hero’ MORE (D-Ga.) Since her body lies in a state on the United States Capitol on Monday.
Biden’s campaign announced that the former vice president will travel to Washington in a press release on Sunday night.
Lewis died in mid-July after battling pancreatic cancer. The lawmaker and civil rights legend were also honored with a final horse-drawn carriage ride over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Saturday, in remembrance of the former activist’s march in 1965 on the bridge that ended with Lewis and others being savagely beaten by police.
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Members of both parties have honored the former congressman since his death, and many lawmakers called the venerable Georgian Democrat “conscience of Congress.”
President Trump
Donald John Trump Biden to pay tribute to Lewis on Capitol Hill Monday. Cotton asked for comments on slavery in criticism of the 1619 Draft Congress slated for disorderly COVID-19 talks on a tight deadline. He previously acknowledged Lewis’s legacy in a tweet, but has not yet announced plans to honor him on Capitol Hill.
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