Biden’s Broken-Record Moment
Faced with a question on segregation, the vice president skipped a track.
Joe Biden had to know the question was coming.
In each Democratic debate so far, the former vice president has faced tough questions about his position on desegregating schools via busing, and tonight in Houston was no different. The moderator Linsey Davis noted that Biden had told a reporter in 1975 that he did not feel responsible for what people did 300 years ago. “As you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?” Davis asked.
That phrasing was actually a gift—a chance for Biden to pivot away from the sticky specifics of busing and make a lofty statement
