John Lewis, once Trump target, backs Joe Biden for president

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Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis is endorsing Joe Biden for president.

over Bernie Sanders before the COVID-19 virus prompted more than a dozen states, including Lewis’ Georgia, to delay their primaries.

Perhaps the most visible living representatives of black Americans’ civil rights struggle, Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders. The group rode buses through the segregated South in the early 1960s to challenge Jim Crow laws. They were beaten at multiple bus stations along the way. In March 1965, Lewis was among those battered and gassed by authorities on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, as they tried to march to the Capitol in Montgomery.

As a first-term U.S. senator from Delaware, Biden pushed for the extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had been adopted after Lewis’ marches. Biden fought against redlining — banking standards that made it difficult, if not impossible, for black families to secure mortgages in white neighborhoods. But Biden also was a leading critic of court-ordered busing to force integration of public schools.

Nodding to the party’s diversity, Biden has promised his administration would “look like the country.” He’s committed to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court upon his first vacancy. He’s pledged to“It would be good to have a woman of color” as vice president, Lewis said, stopping short of saying he expects such a move.

 

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Well that’s disappointing.

we knew that was coming. dementia

Who cares?

costasteve7256 Is biden the one that does that weird hair smelling thing with children?

Joe Biden touched me inappropriately.

_Politics Let’s just forget about the unbelievably bigoted things Biden has said over the years, eh?

_Politics Can I wait to laugh or can I just go ahead now?

Party guy endorses party guy. Not news but the day after his associate , Atlanta Mayor, got an endorsement for VP. Just party deals and nothing new

No one saw that coming.

_Politics Why not? They are both older than dirt and are both out of touch with reality.

Biden can go straight to Hell

I just lost a measure of respect for John Lewis.

I am not endorsing Biden.

Well if Lewis endorsed DementiaJoe we know Joe is corrupt! DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica

Wow, that’s disappointing.

Jill to Joe, “John Lewis just endorsed you!”. Joe to Jill “That’s nice, can I have more pudding”, not realizing he already has pudding on his plate. “I can’t wait to be a senator”......END SCENE

Joe Biden was literally a segregationist

Bernie Bros will call him an Uncle Tom and then wonder why they're getting destroyed with black voters again

Who is going to remind Biden who John Lewis is?

No one is surprise here

What a shocker. An establishment Democrat endorsing an establishment democrat 😂😂😂

No shit?

Literally no one cares. Biden is slipping into dementia. Sad to see, but still a fact.

I stand with JoeBiden

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