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Presumptive 2020 Democratic<\/a> presidential nominee Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0is facing even more pressure to pick a woman of color as his running mate after his\u00a0gaffe about black Trump supporters,\u00a0Washington Examiner chief political correspondent\u00a0Byron York said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has already said that he\u2019s guaranteed to choose a woman,\u201d the Fox News contributor\u00a0told \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom<\/a>.\u201d \u201cAnd he\u2019s under increasing pressure now for it to be a woman of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

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York said Biden was \u201calready under pressure\u201d before making the gaffe last week in an interview with Charlamagne tha God.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard about Kamala Harris, we\u2019ve heard about Stacey Abrams, we\u2019ve heard about Val Demings and he said they are all on his list right now,\u201d York said.<\/p>\n

Biden made controversial comments in an\u00a0interview Friday morning with \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 After host Charlamagne tha God said he had “more questions” for him before November, Biden defended his record with issues affecting black Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you\u2019re for me or Trump, then you ain\u2019t black,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Biden walked back the remarks later the same day, saying: \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have been so cavalier.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy … No one should have to vote for any party, based on their race or religion or background,” he said.<\/p>\n

But the remarks drew swift criticism from across the political spectrum, in particular from the Trump campaign, which sought to highlight the remarks.<\/p>\n

York said that \u201cit is not good\u201d for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.,\u00a0that a Politico report<\/a> revealed that “black activists” warned Biden about her record with African-Americans. The report noted that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., – another on Biden’s shortlist – does not face such concerns.<\/p>\n

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York said the issues\u00a0stem from Klobuchar’s handling of police shootings from her time as a prosecutor. Overall, York said Biden cannot afford to “alienate” any portion of the minority community if he hopes to win in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden\u00a0is facing even more pressure to pick a woman of color as his running mate after his\u00a0gaffe about black Trump supporters,\u00a0Washington Examiner chief political correspondent\u00a0Byron York said Monday.\u201cHe has already said that he\u2019s guaranteed to choose a woman,\u201d the Fox News contributor\u00a0told \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom.\u201d \u201cAnd he\u2019s under increasing pressure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[154,2005],"class_list":{"0":"post-35995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-biden","9":"tag-byron"},"yoast_head":"\n