After going out to personally meet with demonstrators in Delaware, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has taken a firm stand against the police killing of George Floyd and the overall plight of African Americans who’ve been targeted, brutalized and killed by law enforcement officers.
Biden’s address comes as uprisings continue throughout the country and as viral video and news reports show police using tear gas to disperse peaceful demonstrators gathered near a church where President Donald Trump visited.
CNN reported that the context of individual polls continues to show Biden is in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began in the 1930s.
"Biden’s the only challenger to have the advantage in every May poll over an elected incumbent in the polling era,” CNN reported.
“And they speak to a nation where every day millions of people – not at the moment of losing their life – but in the course of living their life – are saying to themselves, ‘I can’t breathe,'" Biden said, “It’s a wake-up call for our nation.