Posted on 11/13/2017 11:42:08 AM PST by drewh
NBC News got Biden all morning long Monday as he officially launched his so-called American Promise Tour promoting his new memoir Promise Me, Dad, about the last year of his son Beau’s life. But across most of the morning franchise’s four hours, he took questions about 2020, President Trump, and Hillary Clinton.
“I understand the Rust Belt,” Biden told Kelly. “Donald Trump has no notion what those people are going through…It’s not a criticism; it’s an observation. They call me Middle Class Joe – it’s not meant as a compliment in Washington, it means I’m not sophisticated. But I understand what built this country. The only thing I know I know is the middle class, their hopes and aspirations, because it’s where I come from. It’s what I am.”
A poll out hours earlier showed 82% of Trump voters would vote for Trump again. Kelly wondered why the Obama administration left middle-class Rust Belters so unhappy as to open the door for Trump.
“I tell you what happened. We had to deal with six years dragging this economy out of a ditch,” Biden responded.
Meanwhile, get used to hearing the following about his thoughts on running in 2020 – Biden gave different versions of it across the Today landscape, and also is scheduled to appear on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight, with loads more appearances after that.
“I give you my word as a Biden, if the lord came down and said, ‘The nomination is yours if you accept it now,’ I would say no, not now…because I am not ready.”
Biden also promised he never would have agreed to replace Clinton as the Democratic nominee in 2016 when she got pneumonia. He was shooting down a notion DNC chief Donna Brazile claimed to have mulled when she was plugging her new book on tour, right before Biden launched his. Biden did, however, admit that he thought Clinton ran a crummy campaign, telling Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, “It hit me like a ton of bricks – there was no discussion of issues.”
In other Today headlines, Biden boasted he made clear to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin that he thinks Putin’s claim of U.S. election non-interference is pure horseradish.
“I’m reluctant to criticize the President when he’s abroad, but I don’t believe Putin,” Biden said.
“There is no good reason to believe Putin… I don’t believe any objective person should believe Putin on that score,” Biden scoffed Monday, after Trump told reporters over the weekend he did believe Putin on that score, then tried to walk that back.
“I wanted to make clear to [Putin] I understood where he was coming from, as long as he understood I knew where he was coming from,” Biden said of an encounter. “I don’t believe Putin at all. They did meddle; he was responsible for it.”
Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden should all run in 2020.
Said the guy from DuPont-Aware..........
the look on her face tells it all...
THAT is creepy!
joe does love the ladies...
I love Joe Biden. Middle Class Joe and all his other crony capitalist fake the Lord loves a working man elitist globalist democrats are the reason Donald Trump won the rust belt and the election. Run Joe Run.
Yeah..Ol’ Joe the pervert, child molester, been wrong on everything for 40 years while in office and even lied about his dead kids last wish. Yep, I shore do love him.
Joe Biden surely still reeks of Obama’s digestive gas
President Trump is actually doing things for the Rust Belt, while senile Joe can only talk about them. Biden was the one promising shovel-ready jobs, being the cheerleader for Obama's anemic, anti-jobs' recovery. I like Trump's chances.
“They call me Middle Class Joe”
Biden says that people call him “middle class Joe”.
I have never heard of anyone ever calling him that.
I have heard him called the “Creepy Veep”
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/creepy-veep-joe-biden
they should call him ‘Crazy Uncle Joe who lives in the basement’
What a creep.
He’s following Hillary’s fine example?
agree!
Let crazy Uncle Joe boast and brag like the fool he is. I like the fact that he is full-blown delusional.
those two bikers look like they are about to open a can of whup ass on Crazy Joe
Megyn probably believed him.
Wait until the gals start coming out of the woodwork saying that Joe touched them in a way that made them uncomfortable.
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