“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”- Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020
“We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”- Barack Obama, last week
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