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There isn’t a single Black woman on House Dems leadership team. It’s not new.
Kamala Harris made history last week, but Black women in the House haven t held elected positions in leadership in more than four decades.
“When the vote is taken by our body, Black women don’t win,” Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan said. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo
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When Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence lost her leadership race by a single vote, she looked up the last time a Black woman was elected to sit at her party’s leadership table in the House.
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The House majority whip says the former Republican president told him that Biden was the only Democratic candidate he felt could have defeated President Trump.
George W. Bush said Biden was the only one who could defeat Trump, says SC s Clyburn Maayan Schechter, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Jan. 20 COLUMBIA, S.C. Watching President Joe Biden take the oath of office Wednesday, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said one person was on his mind.
His late wife, Ms. Emily England Clyburn, whose words after the Columbia Democrat s 2019 fish fry when thousands and about 20 presidential candidates flocked to the state s capital stuck with him as he sat outside the U.S. Capitol with one of his three daughters, Jennifer Clyburn Reed.
Emily could not attend the dubbed world famous fish fry that year, as she was beginning to lose her battle with diabetes, he said.