Biden rallies for LGBTQ+ rights as he looks to shake off an uneven debate performance Boston 25 News [Video]

NEW YORK — (AP) — President Joe Biden courted LGBTQ+ voters with two New York events on Friday, inaugurating a visitor center at the Stonewall National Monument with pop legend Elton John before headlining a Pride Month fundraiser, as he looked to shake off a widely panned debate performance.

“You marked a turning point in civil rights in America,” Biden told the crowd at the Stonewall monument, a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride for decades. He added, that “we remain in a battle for the soul of America” but “I look around at the pride, hope and life that all of you, all of you, bring, and I know it’s a battle that we’re going to win.”

The president then introduced singer Elton John who said it was “one of the biggest honors of my life to be here today” and offered an expletive against suggestions that activists would be wiling to cede ground in the fight for gay rights.

Biden’s often halting first debate against …