Pro-Biden super PAC launches ad featuring Rep. Clyburn ahead of South Carolina’s lead-off primary

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A super political action committee supporting President Joe Biden’s reelection is aiming to boost the Democrat’s primary campaign in lead-off South Carolina with a television ad featuring Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state’s senior congressman whose endorsement boosted Biden’s 2020 run.

In an ad from Unite the Country, shared ahead of its release with The Associated Press, Clyburn ticks through what he says are major Biden accomplishments, saying the president “has eliminated $137 billion in student loan debt” and “capped insulin costs for seniors at $35 a month.”

As he often does, Clyburn also mentions his late wife, Emily, who he has said influenced his 2020 endorsement of Biden ahead of South Carolina’s presidential primary.

She said “that if we wanted to win the presidency, we better nominate Joe Biden,” Clyburn says, of Emily, who died in the fall of 2019. “She was right then, and she’s still right today.”

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Unite the Country said the ad is part of a 2024 strategy that mirrors some of