[See NewsBusters for more.] In an attempt to help himself get elected, President Biden engaged in identity politics by promising to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. For CNN senior political correspondent Abby Phillip and New Day host Brianna Keilar, it is actually Republicans who are engaging in identity politics for pointing it out.
Keilar portrayed Biden’s pledge as a matter of historic justice, “for so much time African-American women have been discounted simply because they are black women. And yet I think righting that wrong, look, whether or not these senators agree with her on—on-- her merits or where she is in her judicial views, it just seems like a weird, kind of, hill to stake a claim on.”