Joe Biden in 2019 FactCheck


On Civil Rights: FactCheck: Claims he supported busing; record says otherwise

On a Pod Save America podcast, Biden claimed, "In the middle of the single most extensive busing order in all the United States history, in my state, I voted against an amendment, cast the deciding vote, to allow courts to keep busing as a remedy."

Narrowly speaking, Biden may have voted against an amendment here or there. Biden's record of voting and pushing for anti-busing measures goes back to when he first took office as a Senator in 1973. As historian Jason Sokol noted in a 2015 article for Politico, Biden told the Senate in 1975 that he was "convinced that busing is a bankrupt concept." Busing, according to Biden, "implied that blacks have no reason to be proud of their inheritance and their own culture."

Source: FactCheck on 2019 candidates, in Current Affairs magazine Apr 11, 2018

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