如果总统选举归结于唐纳德·特朗普或乔·拜登总统，这位前副总统说，对于黑人来说，这是一个不用动脑筋的选择。
拜登告诉我早餐俱乐部主持人查理曼·塔·上帝在周五早上说，“如果你不知道你是支持我还是特朗普，那你就不是黑人。”当电台节目的主持人回应说，这不是关于他或特朗普，而是关于“想要为我的社区做点什么”，副总统鼓励他“看看我的记录”
根据拜登的说法，这一记录是“首屈一指的”，包括全国有色人种协进会的支持，在他担任巴拉克·奥巴马副总统时减少了监狱人口，并创造了一个对有色人种更公平的判刑制度。
乔·拜登在3月15日的第11次民主党总统辩论中提出了一个观点。在5月22日的一次电台采访中，拜登为自己在影响有色人种的问题上的记录进行了辩护，他说，“如果你不知道自己是支持我还是支持特朗普，那你就不是黑人。”
查理曼反驳了拜登对黑人社区刑事司法记录的看法，指出他支持的1994年犯罪法案增加了大规模监禁。专家表示，该法律加剧了已经存在的监禁问题，但拜登声称毒品立法是罪魁祸首，犯罪法案措施的目标是防止检察官要求对少数民族罪犯延长刑期。
其“意想不到的后果”是法官不能将刑期降低到罪犯和犯罪的平均刑期以下。
拜登说，作为总统，他会坚持要求公设辩护律师与联邦检察官获得同等的报酬，这样依赖政府提供的律师的被告有更好的代理。他补充说，任何人都不应该因为毒品犯罪而入狱，尤其是与大麻相关的犯罪，而应该被送到强制康复机构。“我们必须给人们一个机会，”他说。
新闻周刊联系了前副总统乔·拜登，但是没有得到及时的回应。
昆尼皮亚克大学和福克斯新闻本周公布的民调显示，拜登在2020年大选中领先特朗普。昆尼皮亚克民调显示拜登上升了11个百分点，福克斯新闻民调显示他上升了8个百分点。
拜登在他的演讲中指出早餐俱乐部接受采访时，他说自己在民调中击败了特朗普，并补充道，“他说得越多，我就越富裕。”查理曼指出，民调可能是“幻觉”，并指向2016年的选举，当时民主党提名人希拉里·克林顿(Hillary Clinton)在民调中也领先于特朗普，最终以失败告终。
拜登称2016年“非常不同”，因为人们“只想改变体制”，而特朗普是最大的改变。他补充说，“没有真正的对手”出现，“所以这是完全不同的。”
在与黑人商业领袖的电话交谈中，拜登说他不应该如此傲慢，根据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部政治记者埃德·奥基夫。
据报道，拜登说:“我从来没有、从来没有、从来没有把非裔美国人视为理所当然。”。“我不应该是一个如此聪明的人。”
这篇文章已经被更新，包括前副总统乔·拜登在与黑人商业领袖通话时的评论。
Biden Says if You Can't Figure Out if You Support Him or Trump, 'Then You Ain't Black'
If the presidential election comes down to President Donald Trump or Joe Biden, the former vice president said the choice is a no-brainer for black people.
Biden told The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God on Friday morning, "If you have a problem figuring out if you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." When the radio show's host responded it wasn't about him or Trump, it was about "wanting something for my community," the vice president encouraged him to "take a look at my record."
That record is "second to none," according to Biden, and includes endorsements from the NAACP, reducing prison populations when he was Barack Obama's vice president and creating a sentencing system that's fairer to people of color.
Joe Biden makes a point during the 11th Democratic presidential debate on March 15. In a radio interview May 22, Biden defended his record on issues affecting people of color, saying, "If you have a problem figuring out if you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
Charlamagne pushed back against Biden's view of his record on criminal justice for the black community, noting that the 1994 crime bill he championed increased mass incarceration. Experts have said the law exacerbated an incarceration problem that already existed, but Biden claimed that drug legislation was to blame and that the goal of measures in the crime bill was to prevent prosecutors from requesting longer sentences for minority offenders.
The "unintended consequences" of that was that a judge couldn't lower sentences below what was the average sentence for the offender and the crime.
As president, Biden said, he would insist that public defenders are paid the same amount of money as federal prosecutors so defendants relying on government-provided lawyers have better representation. He added that no one should go to jail for a drug crime, particularly a marijuana-related one, and instead should be sent to a mandatory rehabilitation facility. "We gotta give people a chance," he said.
Newsweek reached out to former Vice President Joe Biden but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Quinnipiac University and Fox News polls released this week have Biden leading Trump in the 2020 election. The Quinnipiac poll put Biden up by 11 points, and the Fox News poll had him up 8 points.
Biden noted during his Breakfast Club interview that he was beating Trump in polls, adding, "The more he talks the better off I am." Charlamagne noted that polls can be "illusion" and pointed to the 2016 election, when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was also leading Trump in polls and ended up losing.
Biden called 2016 "very different" because people "just wanted to change the system" and Trump was the biggest change. He added that "no serious opponent" materialized, "so it's totally different."
During a call with black business leaders, Biden said he shouldn't have been so cavalier, according to Ed O'Keefe, CBS News' political correspondent.
"I've never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted," Biden reportedly said. "I shouldn't have been such a wise guy."
This article has been updated to include former Vice President Joe Biden's comments during a call with black business leaders.
