Has the Biden campaign disclosed any statistics about the diversity of its staff?
Saturday, June 27, 2020
By Jiyul Kim
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The Biden campaign told news media that 35% of its full-time staff are people of color and 53% are female. Fifty-eight percent of senior staff are female.
In a 2019 interview with NPR, Joe Biden claimed that he had "the most diverse staff of anybody running.” In response then, several rival Democratic campaigns disclosed statistics about their own teams, but the Biden campaign did not release figures until asked at a campaign event on June 27.
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