Joe Biden Used a Teenage Bernie-Supporting Climate Activist’s Photo for “Hijabi Clout” in an Ad. We Talked to Her About It.
High schooler and climate activist Sabirah Mahmud confronted Joe Biden about climate change at a rally. He wouldn’t fully answer her question — but his campaign used her in an ad as if she were a supporter. She wasn’t happy about it.
Sabirah Mahmud (left), the national logistics director for the US Youth Climate Strike, at a rally. (Jay Cohen Nasser)
On Sunday, a seventeen-year-old high school student in Philadelphia found herself featured in a Joe Biden campaign ad. Which she thought was weird, because she is an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter.
Sabirah Mahmud, the national logistics director for the US Youth Climate Strike, was at Joe Biden’s presidential campaign kick-off rally in May 2019 to ask him to commit to a forum on climate change. Biden failed to give her a proper answer, but his campaign had no problem using a shot of Mahmud from the event, in her hijab, in a new campaign ad, as Buzzfeed reported earlier this week.
https://twitter.com/sabirahmahmud/status/1224167467666280448
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