Posted on 06/19/2019 12:17:43 PM PDT by conservative98
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday bashed Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden for citing a notoriously racist Southern senator while touting his ability to work with lawmakers he disagrees with.
“It’s 2019 & @JoeBiden is longing for the good old days of ‘civility’ typified by James Eastland. Eastland thought my multiracial family should be illegal & that whites were entitled to ‘the pursuit of dead n—-rs,’” de Blasio wrote on Twitter, along with a photo of his African-American wife and their mixed-race son and daughter.
“It’s past time for apologies or evolution from @JoeBiden. He repeatedly demonstrates that he is out of step with the values of the modern Democratic Party,” Hizzoner added in a second tweet.
Biden, 76, was defending himself Tuesday against the charge that he is too “old-fashioned” for today’s Democratic Party and its ascendant progressive wing.
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DeBlasio is special
Smart move. You moved to America
UCK. I just ate.
Biden said he “reached across the aisle” to work with some racist segregationists. How was he reaching across the aisle when these racists he mentions were loyal Democrats?
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