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Jim Clyburn Says He Urged Biden To Choose A Black Woman As Running Mate

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United States Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn has said he’s “pleased” and “ecstatic” that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

“My investment in Joe Biden had everything to do with the restoration of our pursuit towards a more perfect union. I know this is not a perfect country. My God, I’m here. I’m living testimony that the country is not perfect. But we cannot give up on the country. I could not sit idly by and watch this country take backward steps in that pursuit of perfection. And so I am pleased that we can now get back on course,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash during Special election report monitored by worldtopnewsng.com

Clyburn also revealed that he privately urged Biden to pick to a Black woman as his running mate and discussed the historic nature of Kamala Harris ascending to the second highest office in the country.

“I’m the father of three daughters. And I have two granddaughters … So I was very, very moved by this. Now, Joe and I talked about it several times when he was trying to make his decision. He said it would be a woman. And I don’t mind saying now, I said to him in private that I thought that a lot of the results would turn on whether that woman be a Black woman. I never said that publicly because I thought, I don’t think you ought to diminish your candidate. When you ever tell a candidate what he must do publicly, that diminishes his standing with the public. So I gave him all my advice to him in private. But I’m very pleased that a Black woman was selected,” Clyburn said.
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