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https://www.yahoo.com/news/2020-vision-monday-how-biden-could-lose-the-black-vote-and-the-democratic-nomination-152556239.html
2020 Vision Monday: How Biden could lose the black vote — and the Democratic nomination
After Harris caught Biden flat-footed on live TV, a Quinnipiac poll showed her surging into a virtual tie with the former vice president for first place overall.
Why? Because Biden’s support among black voters shrank to 31 percent (from 48 percent in the previous Quinnipiac poll), while Harris’s black support nearly tripled to 27 percent (from 11 percent previously).
Harris has since failed to consolidate that support, and she’s slipped back down to 6 percent nationally as a result.
But the fact that it happened once suggests it could happen again — and in last Thursday’s Democratic debate, Biden demonstrated how. Asked “What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?,” Biden, without the benefit of the prepared text he brought the following Sunday in Birmingham, gave a rambling, nonsensical answer that referred to record players. Biden “seemed to suggest,” as columnist Charles Blow later put it, that “black people lack the natural capacity to be good parents” and must depend, as analyst Jeff Greenfield added, “on an army of white people with degrees to help them raise their kids.”
“We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children,” Biden said. “It’s not that they don’t want to help. They don’t — they don’t know quite what to do.”
Unsurprisingly, Twitter had a field day with Biden’s remark. “A textbook example of the racism that is still respectable,” wrote Anand Giridharadas, an editor at large at Time magazine.
Meanwhile, in the real America
This is going to be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun to watch.
2020 Vision Monday: How Biden could lose the black vote — and the Democratic nomination
After Harris caught Biden flat-footed on live TV, a Quinnipiac poll showed her surging into a virtual tie with the former vice president for first place overall.
Why? Because Biden’s support among black voters shrank to 31 percent (from 48 percent in the previous Quinnipiac poll), while Harris’s black support nearly tripled to 27 percent (from 11 percent previously).
Harris has since failed to consolidate that support, and she’s slipped back down to 6 percent nationally as a result.
But the fact that it happened once suggests it could happen again — and in last Thursday’s Democratic debate, Biden demonstrated how. Asked “What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?,” Biden, without the benefit of the prepared text he brought the following Sunday in Birmingham, gave a rambling, nonsensical answer that referred to record players. Biden “seemed to suggest,” as columnist Charles Blow later put it, that “black people lack the natural capacity to be good parents” and must depend, as analyst Jeff Greenfield added, “on an army of white people with degrees to help them raise their kids.”
“We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children,” Biden said. “It’s not that they don’t want to help. They don’t — they don’t know quite what to do.”
Unsurprisingly, Twitter had a field day with Biden’s remark. “A textbook example of the racism that is still respectable,” wrote Anand Giridharadas, an editor at large at Time magazine.
Meanwhile, in the real America
This is going to be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun to watch.
