Former President Trump courted Black voters at a Detroit church this weekend, bringing up President Biden's controversial 1994 crime bill.
Former President Trump courted Black voters in Detroit Saturday, when he raised President Biden's authorship of the 1994 crime bill, which remains a sore point after three decades. Headlining a roundtable discussion at the predominantly Black 180 Church as his campaign was announcing the launch of a Black voter coalition, Trump noted that rising crime rates hurt his audience's community the most.
Biden had a long history of authoring legislation viewed at the time as tough on crime but now seen as controversial and contributing to the spike in America's incarceration rates. As the consumption of crack cocaine spiraled in the 1980s, for example, Biden co-sponsored another bill that soon became controversial, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
Following the roundtable discussion, the Biden-Harris campaign hit back that the 45th president's audience at the church was 'noticeably empty and white' and that his 'eleventh hour' outreach to Black voters 'isn't fooling anyone.
Sometimes we forget about the Black vote. Sometimes we forget about the power of what it means to vote for those who are in office and, in urban America, our voice matters. That's why it means so much to us that the former president will come and value our voice,' Sewell said.
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