On 1/15/2023, Joe Biden visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia to deliver remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Joe Biden claimed he attended a black church as a teenager. “I used to go to 7:30 mass every morning in high school and then in college, before I went to the Black church. Not a joke,” Biden said.

He couldn’t even pronounce the name of the black US Supreme Court Justice he appointed. “Those are the words of Kejan— Kejan— Ketanji Drown Jackson, our Supreme Court justice,” Biden said. People clapped anyway.

To prepare the speech, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms said, we’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks as a team” during the press briefing with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. A reporter asked Bottoms, “Thinking back to the 2020 campaign, part of the President’s strategy at the time was going to visit these churches to engage some of the voters that he needed to turn out for him — in South Carolina … Is this speech at Ebenezer the start of a similar outreach campaign heading into 2024?

MS. BOTTOMS: I don’t know that it’s the start of it, but it could be a great start of it …

Reporter: Can you provide any insight into the writing process for the speech? I know that oftentimes there’s a lot of time paid attention to speeches like this — how long the President has been working on it for.

MS. BOTTOMS: We’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks as a team and, of course, with the President’s input. And as with any major speech that the President is giving, you — he gives his input and — and the team takes it from there. And then he takes his pen and he says what he wants to say, and you’ll hear that on Sunday.

Reporter: Is it finished?
MS. Jean-Pierre: Okay. The last —
Reporter: Is it finished?
MS. BOTTOMS: No. (Laughter.)
MS. Jean-Pierre: It’s never finished.

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