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April 29, 2021 5:48 p.m.

The former vice president is giving his first speech post-White House Thursday evening. And while there is plenty of 2024 speculation about the location — the early primary state of South Carolina — the audience he’s chosen stirs up memories of the darkest days of Trump’s presidency.

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