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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino in Washington DC

Al Sharpton on Joe Biden’s re-election bid: ‘Let him make up his mind’

A crowd of mostly Black people in suits and dresses, with the sunlight hitting just the tops of their heads, cross a rusty white-painted bridge painted with the words Edmund Pettus Bridge.
From center, Joe Biden, US Representative Terri Sewell, Al Sharpton and fellow activists cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on 5 March 2023, to mark the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

When Al Sharpton recently hung up the phone with Joe Biden, a man he has known for more than 30 years, first as a senator, then as vice-president and now as president, the message was clear: “He assured me he wasn’t going anywhere.”

In their conversation, Sharpton said he never asked Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race.

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