Published 16:22 IST, January 20th 2020

Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of heightening racial divisions

Joe Biden while addressing the Sunday services at Bethlehem Baptist Church reportedly condemned Donal Trump for heightening racial divisions in the country.

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Former United States Vice President Joe Biden while addressing Sunday services at Bethlehem Baptist Church reportedly condemned US President Donald Trump for heightening racial divisions in country. He furr even urged crowd to fight back against hatred. Biden also reportedly called out Trump and his 'Klu Klux Klans' while pointing out to outbreak of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville back in 2017. 

Biden's recent remarks on Trump were believed to be among strongest condemnations of president to date in a campaign season in which a number of leading candidates have harshly criticised president's posture on race and immigration. According to international media reports, he also made comments as he seeks to position himself as inevitable Democratic challenger to Trump. group of Biden's surrogates included Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Sean Patrick Thomas, an actor who grew up in Biden's home state and Symone Sanders, a former spokeswoman of Bernie Sander, but w a top adviser to Biden. 

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AAPI anunces endorsement of Biden

While Biden aimed to cement his support in South Carolina, American Association of Physicians of India Origin officially anunces its endorsement of Joe Biden. co-founder of AAPI Victory Fund, Indian-American Shekar Narasimhan has told a newspaper that organisation had met several party candidates to decide ir support in crowded race and community decided that ir 'top priority' was to support someone who could beat current US President Donald Trump and who would listen to Indian community in America. 

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Furrmore, he added that Biden is popular among Indian-Americans and gave Biden a huge part of ir donations in third quarter of 2019, which was nearly $246,000. AAPI co-founder also elaborated that community also preferred Andrew Yang, an Asian American. However, with escalating tensions between US and Iran after Trump-directed airstrike killed Iran's top commander Wassem Soleimani along with or military personnel, Indian-American community wanted to choose a candidate 'who has best interest of country'. According to international media reports, AAPI will w organise on--ground rallies along with digital events 'to get Biden to finish line'.

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16:22 IST, January 20th 2020