Racism, protests and the challenge for Joe Biden

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How Joe Biden is responding to protests across the United States, from political reporter Cleve R. Wootson Jr. How President Trump uses religion as a political tool, from White House reporter Toluse Olorunnipa. And we hear from the protesters in their own words.

Protests pose a challenge for Biden: Appealing to older and younger black voters.

Trump’s naked use of religion as a political tool draws rebukes from some faith leaders.

We’ve been hearing a lot about the protests in cities across the country after the death of George Floyd — now we hear from the protestors themselves.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hello, how are you?
0:07.0	I'm here to visit back from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan,
0:10.0	heard of the Washington Post.
0:11.0	Glory are Tony over at the post.
0:13.0	I'm good.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, June 3rd.
0:23.0	Today, Joe Biden tries to meet the moment.
0:27.0	How Trump uses religion and voices from the protests.
0:36.0	So, as we've seen these protests across the country,
0:39.0	what have we seen from Joe Biden?
0:42.0	In the beginning,
0:45.0	Biden was mostly in his basement.
0:48.0	I mean, he's sheltering in place like most of us are.
0:50.0	Gleeve Woodson is a national political reporter for the post.
0:54.0	Earlier this week, he sort of emerged and went to the side of a protest in Wilmington,
0:59.0	even taking selfies with some of the protesters.
1:02.0	I can't breathe.
1:05.0	I can't breathe.
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