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A delegate for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign says Black women will “walk away” from the Democratic party if the presumptive nominee were to be replaced by another white man over Vice President Kamala Harris.
During a recent appearance on “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” Areva Martin, a California delegate for Biden for President, issued the warning amid calls for Biden to be replaced as the Democratic nominee for president following his debate performance last week.
Martin said Democrats should “stay the course” by supporting Biden or replace him with Harris instead of another white man.
“First of all, Stephen, who are we agreeing? There is a long list of Democrats: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer,” Martin told host Stephen A. Smith. “The list goes on and on and on … Where is there a consensus? You’ve got to build consensus and there is not consensus right now.”
“If you pick a white man over Kamala Harris, black women, I can tell you this, we gon’ walk away, we gon’ blow the party up.” she added.
Smith then asked Martin who Black women would put their support behind if the Democratic party chose to pursue another...
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