In a wide-ranging interview released on Monday, Cardi B told Joe Biden that her priority for the November election is to “get Trump out.”
At the start of the video interview for Elle magazine, the Democratic nominee for president said his daughter Ashley, a fan of the rapper, called him “Joey B” when she was growing up, meaning “we may be related”.
Biden, 77, asked the rapper, 27, what her main interest was regarding the 2020 election. She said: ‘I have a whole list of things I want our next president to do for us. But first, I just want Trump out. ”
Cardi B also said she wanted more clarity from the country’s leader on how to stop the spread of coronavirus, and more accurate descriptions of the situation regarding the pandemic. Trump has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus’ response and its spread and has consistently downplayed the seriousness, even as the death toll in the US has been raised to 170,000.
“It’s so sad that a pandemic had to happen so people could open their eyes and see what type of person they were dealing with,” Cardi B. said.
Cardi B, whose single with Megan Thee Stallion, WAP, debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart last week, repeatedly mentioned her support for Medicare for All, a policy that would extend government-based health care to all Americans.
Biden did not respond to three references to the policy, which he has stopped short support, but which has gained prominence in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, in particular through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders for the nomination of the President.
Biden’s health care policy is to expand access to Medicare and auto-enroll millions in a government health insurance program at no cost to them.
Responding to several reports from Cardi B about people struggling to pay for health care, childcare and college, Biden said: “One of the things I admire about you is that you keep talking about what I call equity: decency, honesty and treating people with respect. “
Cardi B also asked Biden about racial domination, saying, “I feel like Black people, we do not ask for sympathy, we do not ask for charity – we just ask for equality.”
Biden responded by talking about how much has changed since he was young – he was elected in Delaware from 1972, just before he turned 30 – and said, “Look, I’m much older than you, to make the state clear.
‘The reason I’m so optimistic is because of your generation. You are the smartest, the best educated, the least prejudiced and the most involved generation in history. And you will change things. I really mean it! I’m not trying to be fun. ”
Trump promoted, he said, “hate, prejudice, racism” – which was not a winning strategy.
“This is all about the game of hating people,” Biden said. ‘Because that’s how he wins, by sharing us. Your generation is changing it. ”
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