Jill Biden had harsh words for then Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris after Harris intimated on the June 2019 debate stage that Joe Biden was racist. Harris intimated this by saying:
"I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground," Harris said to Biden on the debate stage in June 2020.
"I was actually very — it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing — that is, federal efforts to integrate schools by busing Black students into largely White districts. You know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me."
Many outlets ran stories saying that Harris suggested that Biden was racist, and just as many fact-checking sites issued their verdict that she did not.
But it turns out that First Lady Jill Biden heard Harris' words to be a condemnation of her husband as racist, as well.
Politico reports that "Jill was and is the guardian of the Biden honor, the Biden id. She couldn't bear to watch a woman who called herself a friend of her son's—although Beau was not her biological child, she'd raised him his entire life as if he were—try to tear her husband down, to score a point at a debate.
"'With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he's committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?' she said on a phone call with close supporters a week later, according to multiple people on the call. 'Go f*-ck yourself.'"
When outlets ran stories that Harris called Biden racist, which is clearly what Jill Biden heard as well, leftist fact-checkers had a field day condemning that reporting.
When the Trump campaign said that "Not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never received," the Washington Post declared:
"None of that is true, and given the alacrity with which similar claims spread following the Harris announcement... The claim apparently stems from a moment in the first Democratic primary debate in late June 2019, when Harris and the former vice president were both contending for the party's nomination."
"These claims are false. During the debate, Harris condemned Biden for working with segregationists in the Senate and for opposing aspects of mandatory busing for school desegregation. However, she began her critique by telling Biden 'I do not believe you are a racist,'" the AP wrote in a similar vein.
Factcheck.org also said Harris' didn't say what Jill Biden and the nation heard her say. As did Politifact. No word yet on if they're planning to factcheck the First Lady or Politico.
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