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Biden Walks Back ‘Put Y’All Back In Chains’?

Robert Kraychik

Despite describing Republicans in 2012 as anti-black white racists, Vice-President Joe Biden appeared to rebuke Hillary Clinton’s description of wide swathes of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters – specifically white “working class” men without university degrees – as “deplorables.”

In an interview aired on Sunday’s State of the Union with left-wing CNN Democrat Jake Tapper, Biden reflected on what drove “working class” whites to support Trump. Democrats, he added, “don’t show enough respect” to “working class” whites while failing to appreciate how “globalization” led to “working class” whites being “left behind:”

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