Headline Roundup • June 28th, 2020
Biden, Trump Release Staff Diversity Data
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Washington Post
Thirty-five percent of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign operation are people of color and just over half are women, according to figures released Saturday under public prodding, after months in which his campaign declined to make that information public.
At least 60 percent of the staff is white, a number in line with the percentage of the United States population identifying as such, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Five percent of the staff opted not to specify a race.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign has more people of color among its senior staff than President Trump's reelection effort, according to data regarding the diversity of their staffs.
Thirty-five percent of Biden’s full-time staff are people of color, the campaign told The Hill Sunday. Among senior staff, 36 percent are people of color, according to the campaign.
Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has released his staff’s diversity statistics, revealing his team is not as diverse as he has claimed. The candidate released these numbers Saturday immediately after a town hall, during which officials called for him to back his diversity claims within his staff.
The former vice president has received mounting pressure to release these figures, but has refused to make this information public for months.
However, he has long boasted his team’s representation.
