'I don't have to atone,' Biden told NBCNews. 'My record stands for itself. I've always supported voluntary busing, which she was part of' 'He has yet to agree that the position he took then was wrong, and he and I just disagree on that,' Sen. Harris said
busing is an"asinine concept" and he argued for different means to address inequalities in the school systems.
And on Thursday, at a Fourth of July campaign stop, she challenged Biden on his past opposition to busing, noting that she was a student who benefited from a busing program in her Berkeley school district as a young girl. Biden's 2007 autobiography includes his first direct accounting of an openness to busing. He wrote about a tense discussion of busing with constituents in the 1970s.
Biden and his team have been quick to suggest that Harris now holds a position on busing that largely mirrors how he views the issue. "I support busing," Harris told reporters in San Francisco on Sunday."Listen, the schools of America are as segregated — if not more segregated — today than when I was in elementary school. And we need to put every effort, including busing, into play to desegregate the schools."
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