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On the recordJune 30, 2022
I have three daughters, as you know, and one of those daughters was at that debate with me. I am telling you, I see it, with Joe Biden, would I had been hearing from them and their friends. I talk with them a lot. They are telling me, that there was a (INAUDIBLE) out there, and it had to do with the feeling that African-American women were not given there just do from the Democratic Party. And one of the things they brought up to me was the Supreme Court.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina
Source
msnbc.com

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Jim Clyburn discusses the influence of his daughters on his urging Joe Biden to commit to nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court.

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