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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:11 AM Jun 2019

Does Biden Really Believe He Can Break the Fever?


June 12, 2019 at 7:24 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Kevin Drum: “I have no idea what Joe Biden ‘really’ believes about working with Republicans. But I will say this: he’s a politician. There’s zero reason to think he truly believes what he’s saying here. There’s also zero reason to think he doesn’t believe it. The fact that he said it is simply a null input.”

“At the same time, Biden isn’t an idiot. Of course he knows what the modern Republican Party is like. But like Obama before him, he also knows that lots of people really like to hear paeans to bipartisanship. We political junkies may hate it, but ordinary people who don’t inhale cable news are suckers for the idea that we can all get along if we just give it a try—and there are way more of them than there are of us. Biden knows this, so that’s what he tells people. Whether he really believes it or not matters not a whit.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/12/does-biden-really-believe-he-can-break-the-fever/
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Does Biden Really Believe He Can Break the Fever? (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
True, but it can be a turnoff to more and more voters who are getting tired of political doublespeak mtnsnake Jun 2019 #1
 

mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
1. True, but it can be a turnoff to more and more voters who are getting tired of political doublespeak
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:32 AM
Jun 2019

Smart voters will take offense at politicians who try to take advantage of their naivety.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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