Al Sharpton: A Lot of African-Americans Don’t Want to Allow Trump to Undo Obama/Biden

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SHARPTON: "No doubt about it. And if you’re discounted in South Carolina, do very poorly, you will not probably survive to see the rest because you won’t have the money and you really won’t have the kind of momentum. I think what’s interesting about this is again, many people that talk about the progressive wing of the party do not understand they’re not talking about the most of the African-American community who have different views that could be conservative — small 'C' — like you say, in real-life things, and who relate to people. The other thing that I think that people forget when they talk about Joe Biden, I agree with Donny that Donald Trump played the race card, but he also played that he was going to undo everything that President Obama did. 'We must undo what Obama did.' Well, undoing Obama is undoing Obama/Biden. So a lot of African-Americans are saying, 'This is my vote to say I am with Obama/Biden and the things that Donald Trump is trying to undo.' And Biden gets a lot of support because of that. He was the co-pilot of the years that Mr. Trump is now trying to displace. So it’s going to take more than one or two bad nights at a debate for people to look at Joe Biden as separate from the last ten years. They weren’t around 50 years ago with busing. It’s a big issue and an important issue, but they remember in real life their own experiences over the last ten years that is trying to be displaced by this president, and Joe Biden was part of that and really fought hard in that. I was in the rooms. I disagreed with Joe Biden in the ‘90s, but Joe Biden was an ardent fighter in the rooms for what Barack Obama did with the Affordable Care Act and criminal justice reform. There’s no question about it."