The debate over desegregation busing continues to reverberate in the 2020 Democratic presidential race one week after the first debate
The issue was first thrust to the forefront of the Democratic contest last week, when Sen. Kamala Harris invoked her own experience with busing to attack former Vice President Joe Biden's opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools decades ago. "That little girl was me," Harris said in a debate defining moment.
Ian Sams, a national spokesman for Harris, maintained in a subsequent statement that Harris' answer on Wednesday did not conflict with her comments on the debate stage, arguing that the fight over busing to desegregate schools in the '60s and '70s and the conversation about busing in the modern era cannot be compared. Harris, Sams said, supports a bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Marcia Fudge that devotes federal resources to desegregate schools.
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