Posted on 10/26/2019 1:55:37 PM PDT by mdittmar
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden said Saturday he is undeterred by the ascendancy of Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren, noting that some of his supporters are already treating the primary campaign as a general election contest between him and President Donald Trump.
“She doesn’t affect my strategy, period,” the former vice president said in an interview with The Associated Press before a town hall meeting in South Carolina, home to the South’s first primary next year. “And I’m not being facetious. I think she’s a fine person, a good candidate, but I didn’t get involved in deciding to run because of polling or a particular strategy.”
He also acknowledged that outside groups are considering running ads to support him, a move that comes amid concerns within his campaign that his fundraising efforts have lagged.
“There’s two things we know for certain: one, (Russian President) Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be president, according to Facebook taking down the Russian ads going after me. And two, surely Trump doesn’t want to face me,” Biden said.
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In a debate Trump would have you for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
The support for Warren baffles me.
Who would want to back a person for the highest office in the land who blatantly claimed to be an American Indian for decades on job resumes, and from political platforms, for personal and political gain?
These are the same folks who say they can’t back Trump in part because he’s supposedly a big liar.
Trump will mop the floor with you if given half the chance!
The moderator will pull out every possible stop to protect Quid pro Joe from Trump who has no qualms about bringing up forbidden subjects
Weird. I called it for Warren a year ago because I want this idiot on the debates so Trump can annihilate her on TV..
Let’s all remember that even when Plugs was at his youthful, “smartest” best, he was a blustering colossal dumb@ss.
Now add to this his obvious dementia and related cognitive disabilities—that’s all you need to know to understand the STUPID things that he says and does.
LOL
Oh I agree on Biden. He’s been putting his foot in his mouth for decades.
I will would think they would avoid Warren like the plague, however these are the same people who voted for a man who was flagrantly unqualified for the position.
Thank heaven he wasn’t more qualified. With his beliefs, he could have done much more damage.
It’s not as if primaries mean anything to Democrats.
They are going to anoint whoever they are going to anoint.
I still don’t understand his comment about turning on the record player at night.
Trump Campaign Responds to Joe Biden’s Comments on Trump’s Children
The Epoch Times ^ | October 25, 2019 Updated: October 26, 2019 | MASOOMA HAQ
Posted on 10/26/2019, 11:13:05 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
Joe Biden has been inundated with questions about his youngest son’s business connections in Ukraine and China. He has retaliated by making comments against Trump’s family working in the White House during a recent interview. The former vice president believes that Trump’s children are not qualified to be in their current White House positions.
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell, Biden a leading 2020 presidential candidate said its “improper” to have the president’s children sitting in on cabinet meetings.
O’Donnell asked if Trump’s children have adequately acted to avoid a conflict of interest.
“Look, I wasn’t raised to go after the children. Their actions speak for themselves. I can just tell you this, that if I’m president, get elected president, my children are not gonna have offices in the White House. My children are not gonna sit in on cabinet meetings,” Biden said.
O’Donnell asked how it was improper.
“It’s just simply improper because you should make it clear to the American public that everything you’re doing is for them. For them! And the idea that you’re gonna have—go to the extent that he has gone to have our, you know—his—his children, his son-in-law, et cetera, engaged in the day-to-day operation of things they know nothing about,” Biden said.
“You don’t think that Jared Kushner should be negotiating a Middle East peace solution?” O’Donnell asked.
“No, I don’t,” Biden said. “What credentials does he bring to that?”
He continued by saying he learns as much as he can about the task assigned to him. He speaks with experts and stays focused on getting results, just as his business background has taught him.
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Biden’s such a damned frickin’ liar.....he “forgot” to mention this:
Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter’s lobbying
Joe Biden lobbied Department of Justice Congress and Homeland Security for Hunter’s lobbying clients
BY Alana Goodman, Washington Examiner| October 24, 2019 07:37 PM
Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.
On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based credit card industry while Hunter was working for MBNA, which is headquartered in the state.
Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son’s business activities, helped Hunter’s work with strategic and highly specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
On Feb. 28, 2007, Biden contacted DHS to express that he was “concerned about the Department’s proposed chemical security regulations authorized by Section 550 of DHS Appropriations Act of 2007,” according to the department’s log of its contacts with members of Congress.
Section 550, which was passed in 2006 as part of the DHS appropriations bill, requires high-risk chemical plants to submit site safety plans to DHS for approval, including security credentialing and training for employees.
Eight weeks earlier, the Industrial Safety Training Council had hired Hunter Biden’s firm to lobby DHS on the issue. The trade group, which represents companies that provide safety training for chemical facility employees, was mounting a heavy lobbying campaign over section 550, submitting congressional testimony about the need to expand background checks for chemical plant employees.
The Industrial Safety Training Council was seeking to expand the “language in DHS legislation regarding security clearance and credentialing for chemical facility employees and employers” in January 2007, according to lobbying disclosure records.
While Hunter Biden did not register as an individual lobbyist for the trade association, he was one of three senior partners in his firm at the time. The Industrial Safety Training Council paid Oldaker, Biden & Belair a total of $200,000 between early 2007 and the end of 2008.
The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said Biden should have avoided involvement with issues that his son’s firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.
“It’s implausible Sen. Biden did not know his son’s firm was lobbying on this arcane issue,” said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project.
“Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are,” he said. “This is a recurring problem we’ve seen on the Hill, where family members are enriched because of their relationship with a member.”
Biden also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Jan. 31, 2007 requesting a meeting with the Department of Justice to discuss expanding the federal fingerprint background check system.
“I write to request your assistance in implementing an expanded background check system for our nation’s volunteer organizations,” wrote Biden. “If we can work together to expand the number of volunteer organizations that have access to fast, accurate, and inexpensive fingerprint background checks, we will make significant and important strides in our ongoing effort to protect kids across our country.”
Biden added, “I would like to convene a small meeting with key representatives” from DOJ, the FBI, members of Congress and volunteer groups.
One of Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients at the time, a coalition of state-level criminal justice advocates called SEARCH, was also lobbying the federal government for a broader fingerprint screening system at the time.
The same day as Biden’s letter, SEARCH adopted a resolution calling on Congress to consider “any effort to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of criminal history records” and expand the current system to “allow the return of all criminal history record information maintained by the States on the search subject through a single fingerprint check.”
The group initially hired Oldaker, Biden & Belair in 2006 to lobby for federal funding for state-level criminal justice programs, paying the firm $114,000 over the next year. In early 2008, SEARCH was seeking funding “to assist states in development and use of information to accelerate automation of fingerprint authentication processes and criminal justice data which are compatible with the FBI’s” system, according to lobbying records.
Biden introduced a bill called the “Child Protection Improvements Act” on March 13, 2008, which created a national fingerprint background check system for volunteer groups that worked with children. Oldaker, Biden & Belair promptly began lobbying for the bill on behalf of their client, SEARCH, according to lobbying records. SEARCH paid the firm $93,000 in 2008, records show.
Hunter Biden founded Oldaker, Biden & Belair with William Oldaker, a former adviser to his father. During his time at the firm, he was registered to lobby for clients on issues ranging from online gambling to higher education. After Biden became a vice presidential candidate in 2008, Hunter stepped away from lobbying, and the firm was renamed Oldaker, Belair & Wittie.
ABC News reported last week that Biden was concerned conflicts with his son’s lobbying work could negatively affect his presidential run in 2008.
Biden was “concerned with the impact that Hunter’s lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination,” according to court documents filed by a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s in 2007, ABC News reported.
“Because my dad was vice president of the United States, there’s literally nothing, as a young man or as a full-grown adult, that my father in some way hasn’t had influence over,” Hunter told the outlet in an interview.
I wonder who the chosen #3 is, if Biden and Warren fall apart at the seams. Cory Booker? The powers that be have been trying for a long time now to make him seem significant.
Biden, Bernie, Warren, maybe Hillary ... all honkies
In other words, minorities aren’t welcome at the top of the Democrat Party
typical Dem back-room-deal corruption
Must be something in the RAT water considering that 65 million people in 2016 voted for a person who claims to have been named for a famous explorer who wasn't yet famous when she born, turned $1,000 into $100,000 as a neophyte cattles futures trader, and flew into Bosnia on a plane that had to corkscrew into its landing due to non-existent sniper fire.
Oh I agree on Biden. He’s been putting his foot in his mouth for decades.
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And as SloJo said recently....He is getting expidenturally worse.
That’s because the DNC will select him just as they selected Hillary, and he knows it.
That’s because the DNC will select him just as they selected Hillary, and he knows it.
I hear ya...
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