President Biden joked at a Pittsburgh rally on Monday that his family was disappointed to learn his great-grandfather was not in a violent Catholic group.
President Biden joked he was once « disappointed » to find out his great-grandfather was not part of a violent group that killed bigoted mine foremen.
The president spoke about his ancestor, Edward Francis Blewitt, during a rally in support of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Monday.
« I remember when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania », Biden told the audience. « And I remember they talked about – when they’d run against him in 1906 – they said, ‘Guess what? He’s a Molly Maguire.’ »
« A lot of the English owned the coal mines and what they did was they really beat the hell out of the mostly Catholic population in the mines. Not a joke », Biden continued.
