Former Attorney General Eric Holder is endorsing Joe Biden for president, saying that the former vice president would work in the White House to reduce mass incarcerations and heal a divided nation. Joe Biden is the person to lead America to that place," Holder tweeted on Wednesday. Holder – who worked with Biden for eight years under former President Barack Obama – emphasized that, if elected, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would prioritize criminal justice reform. As he jumped into the White House race a year ago, Biden was slammed by many of his nomination rivals for his role leading efforts to write and pass the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Holder, who was the nation’s first black U.S. attorney general, flirted with his own White House run in 2018 and early 2019.

Source: Fox News May 06, 2020 14:03 UTC