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On the recordJuly 4, 2019
I was -- I was in favor of busing that was de jure busing. That is, if a court ruled that there was a law passed or circumstance that a county, a city, a state did that prevented black folks from being somewhere, then that's wrong. You should bus.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden discusses his past position on busing and clarifies that he supported busing mandated by court rulings.

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