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The Florida Democrat also made clear that regardless if she is ultimately selected or not, she is committed to working along Biden to reform systemic racism in the country.

\"I don't know what Joe Biden is going to do whether I'm selected or not,\" she continued. \"I will continue to work with him once he's elected to make sure that we send a strong message that 'look, you can be a racist if you want to, you just shouldn't be in the police department, you shouldn't be an educator, you shouldn't decide who gets housing, you shouldn't decide who gets jobs and wages, and we have a lot of work to do in this country but I'm looking forward to being a part of that.\"

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But when asked why she would even want the job in the first place, particularly amid the two crises facing the nation, she joked, \"You know, that is an extremely good question. I ask myself that every day.\"

With one of the crises, the coronavirus, sidelining the presidential candidates to a virtual campaign trail for over three months, Demings signaled that she does not think Biden's campaign has been hampered in terms of getting his message out, even as he has mostly been confined to his house in Delaware.

Biden is \"playing it safe but still finding a way just as we are today to get his message out and rally,\" she said, adding, \"Everybody, I think people are excited.\"

\"You know, we were disappointed in 2016, but you know what we didn't have in 2016, we didn't have four years of the current occupant of the White House. I think people are excited and more motivated than others,\" she continued.

Demings also weighed into the debate over the president restarting his campaign rallies with a first event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, expected on Saturday.

The rally, which marks his official return to the campaign trail since the onset of the coronavirus in March, was initially scheduled for Friday, June 19, known as Juneteenth, the anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States, but in a rare reversal, Trump announced last week that he is rescheduling the rally for the next day.

The Tulsa rally is taking place as the state sees a rising number of cases of the coronavirus, which led to the Tulsa World, a newspaper in Tulsa, calling for the president to push back the rally due to the risk. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted out that some precautions will be in place, such as before entry, rallygoers will have their temperatures checked and be handed masks and hand sanitizer.

Demings praised Biden for being the \"adult in the room,\" and condemned Trump for moving forward with the event during the pandemic.

\"I commend Vice President Biden for being the adult in the room. We are in the middle of a public health crisis,\" she said. \"I am thankful that Vice President Biden is listening to the CDC, our medical experts and our scientists and continuing to practice social distancing. Look, he's getting his message out. He's held some very important virtual rallies and addressed the nation, about many things, including racism and social justice.\"

\"The president, on the other hand, obviously is desperate and worried about the upcoming election in November,\" she said. \"When you have to sign a medical waiver saying that you won't hold the president responsible if you contract COVID-19, is a pretty good clue that the president should not be holding a rally. This is yet another opportunity for the President of the United States to put people first. And yet again he just can't seem to find it within himself to do that.\"

She also slammed the decision by Republicans to move the president's acceptance speech for the nominating convention to Jacksonville, Florida, after a standoff with North Carolina's Democratic governor over restrictions to safely host a large-scale event in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Demings said that the president would not be welcomed in Jacksonville and suggested that he is irresponsible for putting American lives at risk.

\"I would say based on what medical experts and scientists say, no,\" Demings, a native of Jacksonville, said. \"It boils down to do you have the ability to put the people that you represent first, and as we continue to see numbers go up in Florida, why on earth would you push to have a convention here, and bring tens of thousands of people here and expose them risk their health.\"

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