Jim Clyburn: Joe Biden Has a Quiet Constituency that Nobody Is Looking At

Clyburn: “You know, I don’t understand why these platitudes they get thrown out there by Trump and others, especially some of the sycophants, these people who really carry a message that we all know where it emanates from, why they seem to think that that’s Bible, that that is what is going to happen. The fact of the matter is, people know what their conditions are. They watch these candidates. They listen to their rhetoric. And when you say, I’ve done more for African-Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln, then you have one of your supporters out there saying that all of a sudden things are going good doing Jim Crow and come — and LBJ comes along, Lyndon Johnson. And because of his programs, things got bad for the black family. What were his programs? Number one, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1968 Fair Housing law, getting rid of redlining, keeping the black families in slum conditions. That is a problem. And you’re telling me that your guy proposing that we get rid of these kinds of programs. And now, health care. Remember, President Trump’s big problem with John McCain was that he cast the deciding vote that made the Affordable Care Act continue to exist. Now, you telling me that black families are going to reward him for that? I just saw, Mr. Tomasky’s peace. And let me tell you something, I have been saying for weeks, even months now to my friends, that Joe Biden has a quiet constituency that nobody is looking at, nobody is listening to, but it’s showing up in this poll. So I don’t know what the people are saying to the pollsters but I know what they said to me when I walked through airports. I just came in from San Diego. And I spent a lot of time in a Charlotte airport, the Charlotte airport in the last several days, and people are coming up to me very quietly saying, ‘Keep doing what you’re doing. Things are going to be fine come November.’ I tell you, there is a quiet constituency that Joe Biden has, and it will show up big time come November.”