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Joe Biden told CNN he was caught off guard and "wasn't prepared" for Sen. Kamala Harris' attack on his record on racial issues and busing. "I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me." In the first Democratic debates, Harris took a targeted shot at Biden touting his work with pro-segregation senators in the 1970s. She also went after his previous opposition to federally-mandated busing as a tool to integrate schools. Biden was a vocal advocate against most forms of federally mandated busing. He introduced legislation and amendments to limit the practice and calling it "an asinine concept" at the time. Harris eventually backtracked on the position she took during the debate that the federal government "must step in" to enforce busing.

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