FiveThirtyEight
Clare Malone

Biden’s explicitly thanking the Black community seems pretty significant to me. Obama was always caught in a bind when it came to talking about the Black community’s support — it was almost that he didn’t want to remind people too much of the historic nature of his presidency. He wanted to be president to all people. Biden, as an older white man, is perversely, given more latitude to talk about race.


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