Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.

The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”

There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “You should vote your emotions” is the absolute dumbest possible take.

    People will do so anyway. Pro-genocide centrists would rather lose than take that into account.

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      6 months ago

      Lose to who?

      The guy that already banned Muslims from entering the country once & has plans to strip birthright citizenship & exile brown folk?

      Sounds like you want the Palestinians in the USA to get to enjoy the conditions that their relatives are living in first hand.

      I’m trying to talk them out of making a stupid emotional mistake that will quite literally end their everything.

      And somehow, you still think you care more. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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        6 months ago

        Why don’t you people understand that you calling them dumb isn’t going to override the sitting President sending bombs to kill their family? Do you actually want Biden to win or do you just want to be able to gloat if he loses?