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Biden: Democrats need better outreach to frightened voters
Associated Press ^ | Jun 17, 2017 10:45 PM EDT | Terry Spencer

Posted on 06/17/2017 9:21:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump without saying his name Saturday, telling a crowd of Florida Democrats last year’s election unleashed a coarseness that hadn’t been seen in decades but he said the party’s candidates can overcome that by showing disgruntled voters that they have solutions. […]

“This past election cycle churned up some of the ugliest, ugliest realities that persist in our country. Civilized discourse and real debate gave way to the coarsest rhetoric, stoking some of the darkest emotions in this nation,” said Biden, 74. “I thought that after all these years we had passed the days when it was acceptable for politicians to bestow legitimacy on hate speech and fringe ideologies.”

Biden said Democrats could overcome that by showing everyone from working-class white men to women to minorities that they are the party of ideas and solutions. He called investing in schools, community colleges and infrastructure and providing health care, saying that’s how to improve the economy, not by building walls and excluding Muslim immigrants. …

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To: Olog-hai

Notice he didn’t talk about creating good jobs for the American people. Just shoving them on welfare and job training. (but there won’t be any jobs)...

They still don’t know why they lost in 2016.


41 posted on 06/18/2017 7:37:43 AM PDT by crusher2013
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