Racism in America is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” Vice President Joe Biden said on August 27, arguing that way to attack issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening nation’s racial divide.

White folks responsible for institutional racism: Biden

Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by Trump, Biden said in an interview with a small group of reporters that a president’s words can “appeal to worst damn instincts of human nature,” just as y can move markets or take a nation into war.
Biden is leing his Democratic challengers for presidential mination in almost all polls, largely because of support of black voters. He has me appealing to m central to his candidacy and vowed to make maximizing black and Lati turut an “overwhelming focus” of his effort. interview, more than an hour-long, focused largely on racial issues. “White folks are reason we have institutional racism,” Biden said. “re has always been racism in America. White supremacists have always existed, y still exist.” He ded later that in his ministration, it would “t be tolerated.”

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Biden's appeal to black voters

By highlighting nation’s racial tensions and placing blame on Trump, Biden is showing that he, too, is willing to make race a core campaign issue, but from opposite perspective of president. Turut and enthusiasm among black voters will be critical for Democratic minee, tably to try to reclaim states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. He also emphasized a crossover appeal to both black voters and n-college-educated white voters.

To accentuate his appeal to black voters, Biden said that he will vertise in black publications and eng with cultural institutions like black church, black fraternities, and sororities, and historically black colleges. “ b news is I have a long record. good news is I have a long record,” Biden said when asked about his enduring support among black voters. “People kw me — at least y think y kw me. I think after all this time, I think y have a sense of what my character is, who I am.”I’ve never, ever, ever in my entire life been in a circumstance where I’ve ever felt uncomfortable being in black community,” he ded, suggesting that his familiarity was t matched by many of his competitors.

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Biden on his running mate  

While he did t specify to whom he was referring, Biden said he believes re are “assertions and assumptions” me about black voters that he believes are inaccurate, and he said that “a lot of people haven’t spent much time in community.” Without mentioning her by name, Biden also referenced California Sen. Kamala Harris’ attack on him during first presidential debate on issue of busing as a solution to school desegregation.

“All I kw is I don’t think anybody in community thinks I am — what’s phrase?” Biden asked, paraphrasing Harris’ comment that “I kw you’re t a racist, Joe. I don’t think anyone thinks that about me,” Biden said. Biden was also asked wher he would select a woman or person of color as his running mate should he become minee. He said that while he would “preferably” do so, he is ultimately seeking a partner on ticket who is “simpatico with what I stand for and what I want to get done. Whomever I pick would be preferably someone who was of color and who was of a different , but I’m t making that commitment until I kw that person I’m dealing with I can completely, thoroughly trust, is auntic, and is on same p.”

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Biden's Next Move

Looking ahe to next Democratic debate in Houston in September, he said that he understands why he has a target on his back but cautioned that Democrats “shouldn’t be forming a circular firing squ and shooting” because it only helps Trump. Trump’s reelection campaign dismissed Biden’s accusation that Trump h inflamed racial tensions in country. “Having moved on from Russia Hoax, Democrats are w employing oldest play in Democrat playbook: falsely accusing ir opponent of racism, extending it even to President’s supporters. Calling half country racist is t a winning strategy,” said Tim Murtaugh, Trump campaign’s communications director.

Biden also said that Democratic field would narrow and allow for more meaningful exchanges. In current crowded field, he said it’s difficult to have any meaningful debate at all, calling it a “n-debate debate.”Biden, who has been attacked most forcefully by Harris, said that he believed “those who me most direct attacks on one ar haven’t really benefited much by it at end of day.”

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