Posted on 05/14/2019 6:15:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Vice President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that Republicans will have an "epiphany" and start working with Democrats once President Donald Trump is out of office.
"The thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke," Biden told reporters at a diner in Concord, New Hampshire. "You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends."
The comment is the latest demonstration of Biden's effort to clash with Trump directly while also appealing to moderate Republicans, showcasing a broad appeal that could help him win a Democratic nominating contest in which voters are more concerned than usual with candidates' perceived electability. But it also highlights a major rift within a 2020 Democratic primary field in which other candidates -- particularly Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- are casting Trump as just a symptom of a GOP and a government now controlled by special interests.
Warren, in her campaign kickoff speech in February, said Trump is "just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America." Sanders said at an Iowa rally earlier this year that the stakes of the campaign are "not just about defeating Donald Trump."
The reaction to Biden's comments from the more liberal quarters of the party also illustrated the skepticism to his candidacy from progressive activists and voters.
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Just had my epiphany! Biden is still an idiot!
Keep talkin’, Joe.
LOL
From the man who’s been wrong on every single issue he’s ever taken up, for about 45 years.
Biden is pretty much senile. Do they have a candidate who wouldn’t be a disaster?
Biden will have an epidural after he loses to Trump.
Stacy Abrahams will then rant for eternity that she should be the VP.
Better to concern yourself with the post-Obama epiphany, Joe.
Will gropin’ Joe be around until 2024.
He can dream.
It is comforting to know that he is never right about anything.
Go, Trump, MAGA!
Seriously, Biden’s IQ has got to be on the low end of the scale.
Alzheimer’s.
The funny thing is, its us who are woke.
The funny thing is, its us who are woke.
Eight ball says- Don’t count on it.
gropin' joe is behind times. Silent, non-supportive of President Trump conservatives, are a dime per dozen in dc.
I predict the dums will have a 40 year wilderness experience before AND after President Trump leaves office
The Trump ideology will be discredited and no impudent upstart will dare be as bold as Trump in trying to right the ship of state.
Trump has to win or we all lose.
Don't count the Democrats and Never-Trumpers out. They're cornered rabid animals and they're going to lash-out with their claws and teeth to try to tear Trump to shreds.
Actually, Biden’s right. A lot of RINO’s are frozen right now, afraid to antagonize Trump supporters but in their hearts, supportive of much of the progressive agenda, especially open borders.
Post-Trump, they will revert to type if they can manage it politically.
I don’t know if I need to get out more, but I don’t have any Democrat friends.
Isn’t he due for another session to staple his ass-hairs to his scalp ?
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