Staffers for former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE (D) and Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE’s (D-Calif.) campaigns got in a Twitter feud Wednesday over the 2020 hopefuls’ comments regarding school busing.
Kate Bedingfield, deputy campaign manager and communications director for Biden, shared an article from The Associated Press characterizing Harris’s position on school busing as a method of integrating American schools that should be an option, not a mandate from the federal government.
“It’s disappointing that Senator Harris chose to distort Vice President Biden’s position on busing — particularly now that she is tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she posed to him!” Bedingfield said.
It’s disappointing that Senator Harris chose to distort Vice President Biden’s position on busing — particularly now that she is tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she posed to him! https://t.co/kiYYk5kg3m
— Kate Bedingfield (@KBeds) July 3, 2019
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Harris strongly supported federal mandates for school busing during the first 2020 Democratic debate last month in a fiery exchange with Biden, during which she slammed the former vice president for not supporting busing programs like the ones she benefited from as a student.
Ian Sams, Harris’s national press secretary, retweeted Bedingfield’s comment, firing back, “VP Biden said: ‘Who the hell do we think we are that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?’ He called busing an ‘asinine concept.’ C’mon. Y’all are better than this.”
VP Biden said: “Who the hell do we think we are that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?” He called busing an “asinine concept.”
C’mon. Y’all are better than this. https://t.co/usDNsgxOYu
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) July 3, 2019
Bedingfield responded, “Hi Ian! If we’re cherry-picking quotes on Twitter, what about this one from this January? Sen. Harris: ‘I think there are many people who would make a good president… I’m very fond of Joe Biden, so you’re not gonna hear me criticize Joe Biden. I think he’s a great guy.’ ”
Hi Ian! If we’re cherry-picking quotes on Twitter, what about this one from this January? Sen. Harris: “I think there are many people who would make a good president… I’m very fond of Joe Biden, so you’re not gonna hear me criticize Joe Biden. I think he’s a great guy.”
— Kate Bedingfield (@KBeds) July 3, 2019
Harris’s standout performance in the first debate has tightened up the race with Biden. In two polls released Wednesday, Biden saw his support slip while Harris has overtaken Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.) to rise to third place among the slate of Democratic candidates in the 2020 primary field.
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