Trump campaign preempts Biden speech, attacking former VP’s ‘racial history’

Published July 28, 2020 7:42pm ET



As Joe Biden was set to announce his new plan for racial equity and justice, the Trump campaign released a statement arguing the former vice president is the one with a troubling past on race.

“Joe Biden’s record and proposals prove that he indiscriminately spreads economic misery for all Americans, so he has addressed inequality that way. And the basic fact remains that no one should listen to a lecture on racial justice from Joe Biden,” the statement from Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson reads. “He palled around with notorious, racist, segregationist senators, bragged about receiving an award from George Wallace, eulogized the exalted cyclops of the KKK, opposed the desegregation of schools through busing, and said he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a ‘racial jungle.’”

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