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		</div><p>Joe Biden has acknowledged that questions raised about his support for 1994 crime legislation are “<i>legitimate</i>”.</p>
<p>But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee insisted that people should judge him based on his current actions, not his past.</p>
<p>Speaking during a virtual NAACP forum, Mr Biden responded to questions that the moderator said were from young voters concerned about his role in writing the Bill when he was a senator from Delaware.</p>
<p>Critics say the tough-on-crime Bill contributed to the mass incarceration of racial minorities in recent decades.</p>
<p>Mr Biden, growing testy, acknowledged that “<i>it’s a legitimate concern, they should be sceptical</i>”.</p>
<p>But he also said that while he has been “<i>told all along</i>” that young people oppose his past stances on criminal justice issues, “<i>there is no polling evidence to sustain that. Nor is there voting evidence thus far to sustain that</i>”.</p>
<p>“<i>Watch what I do. Judge me based on what I do, what I say and to whom I say it,</i>” he said.</p>
<p>Black voters remain key to Democrats’ chances for victory this autumn, and Mr Biden has engaged in a concerted outreach effort to the black community, releasing a plan focused on black economic mobility and racial disparities in healthcare and education systems earlier this year.</p>
<p>He has also issued a criminal justice plan that reverses a number of key provisions of the crime bill and has apologised for supporting some policies in the 1990s that he now says were harmful.</p>
<p>But some black voters are still angered by his previous positions and have questioned whether his proposed reforms go far enough.</p>
<p>While there is little chance black voters will support President Donald Trump in significant numbers — just 6% supported him in 2016, according to a Pew Research Centre analysis — there are concerns they may stay at home, which could make the difference in a number of states key to Democrats’ White House hopes.</p>
<p>Still, Mr Biden predicted on Wednesday night that Democrats may be poised to take back control of the Senate this autumn if the current political climate continues.</p>
<p>“<i>Based on the polling data now — it’s really early — there is a real prospect that we’ll pick up up to six seats in the United States to win back the Senate</i>,” he said.</p>
<p>As the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and a renewed push for criminal justice and policing reform, Mr Biden has spoken out more forcefully on the need to address systemic racism, and he reiterated his call for a number of police reforms first outlined in his criminal justice plan last summer.</p>
<p>But on Wednesday night, he still avoided a major flashpoint in the conversation around such reforms — whether he would support reparations for black Americans.</p>
<p>Pressed multiple times on his stance, Mr Biden said only that a study should be done and that his support for cash reparations “<i>would depend on what it was and if it will include Native Americans as well</i>”.</p>
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