‘One of America’s greatest patriots’: US political leaders pay tribute to Jesse Jackson

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to death of the civil rights leader at the age of 84

Political leaders have celebrated Jesse Jackson as a “titan” of the civil rights movement and “one of America’s greatest patriots” after the announcement on Tuesday of his death at the age of 84.

The former US president Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as “a man of God and of the people”, calling him in a post on X: “Determined and tenacious. Unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our Nation.”

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