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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Loathsome
“Post-Trump, they will revert to type. . .”
It happened after Reagan. George HW Bush purged the conservative and filled his administration with moderates, ending the Reagan revolution. His son, called himself a “compassionate conservative, but in office behaved as an establishment moderate.
The grassroots Tea Party movement gave the GOP controller of the House in 2010. Instead of embracing it, GOP Speaker Boehner despised it and suppressed its agenda. In 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney refused the help of the Tea Party and ran away from it.
If Trump doesn’t build an organization to control the party when he leaves office, the GOP will immediately revert to form. Now whose relative is head of the RNC? Kevin McCarthy from California, isn’t he in line to be Speaker if the GOP regains the House? Isn’t the wife of Mitch McConnell in Trump’s cabinet? How’s that Senator Burr from Jessie Helm’s state doing these days? What’s Mitt Romney up to these days? Hmmm.
The fraud ridden Dem states refused to cooperate, so the whole thing got turned over to DHS.
My phone certainly did.
It won’t be an epiphany for “his Republican friends” after this ‘people’s President’ is gone. It’ll be a huge sigh of relief and back to business as usual for those Deep State RINOs. So Joe is, basically, correct.
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