Former Vice President and current Democratic front-runner Joseph R. Biden said Saturday that President Trump’s election in 2016 “reawakened sensibilities” in the nation much like the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Mr. Biden spoke with MSNBC’s Al Sharpton after giving a speech at the South Carolina Democratic Convention, where he claimed that millennials have become more politically motivated since Mr. Trump’s election.
“There’s so much we can do, and it’s within our capacity to do it,” the presidential hopeful told Mr. Sharpton. “That’s the interesting thing.
“I think what’s happening now is, I think that Donald Trump may have reawakened sensibilities in this country to say, ‘Whoa, maybe we can do this now,’ just like our generation was awakened when Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated,” Mr. Biden said.
“Our whole generation said, ‘I’m back in, man,’” he added. “These millennials, they get it, Rev. And now they want to get engaged.”
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