Yesterday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team
that the chants of “Send her back!” — aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar , one of four minority congresswomen whom Trump attacked on Twitter by tweet last weekend — was “despicable” and reminded him of the noxious rhetoric of George Wallace.
The resurfaced Biden quotes come from a pair of stories written by journalist Robert S. Boyd. In the first, which ran in theBiden touted the fact that Wallace had once “praised him as one of the outstanding young politicians of America.”story includes Biden’s quote about Delaware being on “the South’s side in the Civil War.”
The quotes go to the heart of his critics’ complaints about the former vice president, a septuagenarian whose nearly 40-year Senate career features many instances when his policies and rhetoric were out of step with today’s progressives.
In the most heated exchange of the first Democratic debates, Sen. Kamala Harris took Biden to task for his past opposition to busing as a way to desegregate public schools.
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers.
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