Our @alanagoodman first reported earlier this year that Biden embraced segregation in 1975.
It was "a matter of black pride," he said that year.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-embraced-segregation-in-1975-claiming-it-was-a-matter-of-black-pride …
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"I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace," Biden said in 1975. Today, he tells voters "I came out of the civil rights movement."https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-once-said-democrats-needed-a-liberal-george-wallace …
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A month after the 1988 election, Biden joked about the "Willie Horton" ad — widely viewed as racist — to a predominantly white, conservative audience in South Carolina.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/video-biden-joked-in-1988-that-he-was-willie-hortons-attorney …
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In 1977, Biden had been among senators who voted to restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. He was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that approved that bill.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-voted-to-restore-citizenship-to-confederate-president-jefferson-davis …
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Biden's most recent comments on race relations in America have media members and some Democrats calling for him to apologize. "I’m going to call it insensitive. It’s much worse than that. I don’t know what to call it except stupid," CNN's John King said.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/insensitive-stupid-cnn-anchor-slams-biden-for-his-comments-on-segregationist-senators …
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He's done.
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Exactly, why I view
#JoeBiden as a muse! He'll say anything depending who he's aiming to please!
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I always knew.
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