Black members of Congress with whom President Joe Biden has worked hard to forge a relationship say there will be trouble if either Biden or Kamala Harris don’t stay on the Democratic presidential ticket, with one warning of a “Blacklash.”
They will no longer sit idly by on the sidelines of an historic election they fear could have disastrous consequences for the people of their community, one veteran member of the Congressional Black Caucus told the Daily Beast Thursday.
“Before, people were just kind of, ‘Ok, there’s an election, I’m going to vote.’ But now, people are more mindful of what’s happening and there is a backlash developing because of the possibility that there may be a ticket that won’t consist of Harris or Biden, either one,” Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said in an interview in the Capitol. “There’s a desire to keep that ticket together.”
