The day after wrapping up the Democratic National Convention, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee, Kamala Harris sat down for their first televised joint interview with ABC News. The conversation, hosted by the network’s David Muir and Robin Roberts covered a wide range of topics including healthcare, the duos infamous debate stage matchup, and what the two plan to do regarding the COVID-19 crisis if selected to take office next January. While Trump’s failures as a leader were highlighted throughout, Harris took particular issue with the impeached president’s inability to say “Black Lives Matter.”
“Listen, when Joe and I talk about … the state of America, he has a deep sense of awareness and knowledge about racial disparities, inequities and systematic racism,” Harris said in response to Roberts’s question about Biden’s ‘you ain’t Black’ comments that went viral earlier this summer. “Joe speaks the words and actually knows how to say the words ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Contrary to what … the current president of the United States does, which is to sow hate and division full-time and has never spoken those words and will never speak the words ‘Black Lives Matter.’”
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