This was the most important (and powerful) moment in Joe Biden's CNN's town hall
Former Vice President Joe Biden took questions from a socially-distanced crowd -- assembled in cars at a drive-in movie theater! -- and CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday night for two hours. But it was a single moment that stood out to me, a moment where Biden made his strongest possible case for not only why he and President Donald Trump see the world so differently but also for why he, and not Trump, is the best leader in this critical moment in the country.
Cooper asked Biden whether he believed he had benefited from "White privilege." After acknowledging he had "benefited just because I don't have to go through what my Black brothers and sisters have had to go through," Biden turned his answer to his own working-class roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Here's the key bit:
"Like, guys like me, who were the first in my family to go to college -- up here, my dad busted his neck. My dad came up here, worked here, lost his job, like a lot of people did here. There used to be a bad joke in the '60s in Scranton, everybody's -- no one's in Scranton, everybody's from Scranton, because so many people lost their jobs.
"We are as good as anybody else.
And guys like Trump, who inherited everything, and squandered what they inherited, are the people that I have always had a problem with, not the people who are busting their neck."
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