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"Clearly, many Black voters understand in 2018 and 2020 they delivered Congress and the White House to Democrats," he added. "They're looking for a return on their investment, but they just don't see one."

Biden tried to convince some members of that community on Saturday that he has done things that benefit them and that he hears their concerns. Your generation will not be ignored, will not be shunned, will not be silenced, he said during a commencement address at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

The president used one phrase several times during one part of his remarks "because of you" to drive home to students at the historically Black research university that he again needs their support in 2024.

"With your voices and votes, I was able to fill my commitment to put the first Black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States of America," he said. "Because of you, more Black women have been appointed to the federal appellate courts than under every other president in American history combined.

And, by the way, I mean it. I mean it. Because of you. Because of you. You turned out. You spoke up. You knew. You showed up, and the votes counted," Biden added. "You feel the promise and the peril of climate change. Because of you, we're making the biggest investment ever in the history of the world in climate change. Don't ever think your voice doesn't matter."

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