Joe Biden’s Black Voter Support Challenged by Rivals at NAACP
- Democratic 2020 rivals seek to undercut Biden’s standing
- Cory Booker calls Biden the ‘architect of mass incarceration’
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Joe Biden sought to bolster his support in the crucial black community at the NAACP convention in Detroit. But his rivals had other plans, delivering a mix of veiled and explicit jabs aimed at undercutting one of his biggest strengths as a presidential candidate.
“I got engaged early on in the civil rights movement,” the 76-year-old former vice president and senator said Wednesday, repeatedly vowing to fight “systemic racism” in the U.S. if elected to the White House.