• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And yet he was overwhelmingly the favorite pick for Black voters in the 2020 primary.

    People change. Context matters – some of those bills were even supported by black community leaders. It obviously didn’t turn out well.

    Plus, it matters to some people that he was happily VP under Obama. I personally don’t get it, but to some people being #2 to a black person at #1 meant something.