Posted on 03/25/2020 11:24:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Weeks before Joe Biden launched his 2020 presidential campaign, he released a social media video to address allegations from women who said his uninvited displays of affection had made them uncomfortable.
“Social norms have begun to change. They’ve shifted,” said the former vice president, then 76. Looking straight into a cellphone camera, he added: “I hear what they are saying. I understand.”
Kate Bedingfield, an adviser the same age as Biden’s youngest daughter, was first to propose a direct-to-lens declaration. She joined forces with Anita Dunn, an alumna of President Barack Obama’s West Wing and relative newbie to Biden’s orbit. Together with two of Biden’s longest-serving confidants – Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon – they convinced the almost-candidate it was the right course.
When the boss was ready, Bedingfield held up her phone to record.
Those early days of spring 2019 portended a defining new reality for Biden: His innermost circle for decades was dominated by men, with the crucial exceptions of his wife, Jill, and sister, Valerie. But the 50-year political veteran has expanded his brain trust, and the cadre of women now included have helped shape - and even rescue - a campaign that has whipsawed Biden from early favorite to disappointing afterthought and finally to prospective Democratic nominee.
“We don’t have a senior meeting on the campaign where women are not at least half the meeting,” said Bedingfield, the deputy campaign manager, who had joined Biden during his final years as Obama’s vice president. Biden, she said, is “cognizant of the fact that we bring different life experiences to the table, and that that is valuable,” while also seeing women and men as equals in presidential politics.
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It doesn’t change the fact that Biden is corrupt, senile, and has never been on the right side of an issue. Plus, he lives killing babies. He’s F’n evil. Let him eat Schiff and die.
Joe Biden is a frail old man that should not be running...
As bad as AP was they seemed to have really sailed over the edge, Propping up a guy who has clearly diminishing mental acuity to be be President is at best irresponsible.
““We don’t have a senior meeting on the campaign where women are not at least half the meeting””
hmmmm. that might explain why their recent technology efforts have been embarrassingly abysmal: too many SENIOR women involved ...
(just joking folks, just joking)
“Joe Biden is a frail old man that should not be running”
pathetic, sad even ...
Oh GOODY! Goody, goody, goody! YAY!
The AP says everything is okay now.
Do I really need the /s?
They are now changing his diapers, wiping his drool and leading him around
Goebbels doesn’t look well...
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