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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigned on Wednesday in West Des Moines, Iowa. She criticized the celebrations planned by President Donald Trump on the occasion of July 4th and touched on topics such as health care and buses. (4th July)
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Senator Kamala Harris made a double-face-to-face confrontation with former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday during the first Democratic primary debate last month, saying that if a candidate is not prepared for debate, he is "probably not ready".

At an appearance on the show "The View," Meghan McCain confronted Harris about the Californian senator's attack on Biden. McCain described the moment of Harris' escape in last month's debate as a "political ploy," citing an expression used by the representative Tulsi Gabbard, another Democrat candidate for the presidency.

"Listen, this is a race for the presidency … we are in debate and if you are unprepared and you are not ready for someone to point out a difference of opinion. .. then you're probably not ready, "she says.

In the first Democratic primary debate at the end of June, Harris convened Biden to share his comments about working with segregationist Democrats during his term in Congress and his position on the automation of schools imposed by the federal government several decades ago.

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Nearly a week ago, during an appearance in South Carolina, where a majority of the Democratic primary electorate is expected to be African American, Biden apologized for his earlier comments on the fact that he had worked with segregated senators at the beginning of his term in the Senate.

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Biden repeatedly led the Democratic presidential field, even among black voters. In a poll released Wednesday by Fox News in South Carolina, 41 percent of black men and 41 percent of black women said Biden would be their favorite Democratic candidate. In comparison, only 17% of black men and 9% of black women said that Harris would be their choice to lead the Democrat 2020 ticket.

Of all the Democratic voters polled, Biden was in the lead with 35% in South Carolina. Senator Bernie Sanders found himself behind the former vice president with 14%, followed by Harris with 12%.

With 701 South Carolina Democratic primary voters polled between July 7 and July 10, there is a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The margin of error among black men surveyed is plus or minus 7.5 percentage points and the margin of error among black women surveyed by plus or minus 6 percentage points.

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Black voters are a key electorate for Democrats. According to many political observers and an analysis of the NAACP, many of the Democrats' mid-term victories in 2018 were motivated by black voters, especially black women.

Harris, who is one of two black candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, said Friday that she had "no plans to attack Joe Biden" during the debate.

"But I will highlight our differences of opinion on a very critical moment in the history of the United States," Harris said in "The View." "[In] 1954, the United States Supreme Court decided unanimously Brown v Board of Educationbecause there were segregationists in the history of our country, including members of the US Senate, who have lived their careers and their reputations by ensuring that the races are not educated together … And. .. they worked on an issue that directly affected me, which is this bus issue. "

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