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This interview!
Apparently there's no one under 65 on Biden's team with any influence to tell him that 71% of Americans support #M4A among other things.
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Exclusive: Biden expresses skepticism of Democrats' leftward tilt and AOC's mass appeal

cnn.com/2019/07/05/pol…

#Biden seems not to have even read the demographics from 2016 or the issues voters prioritized in 2018 (climate, healthcare, immigration, guns). He resorts to referring to AOC as "bright" but "not representative," which is how he famously referred to Obama in 2007.
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#Biden also says he wasn't prepared for #KamalaHarris to come after him because she knows him & knew his late son, Beau. (He needs to stop using Beau for sympathy points. He should reference his living son, Hunter, who gave a heart-wrenching interview about his addiction.)
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#Biden doubles down on #busing and says it "didn't work," when in reality, busing integrated schools throughout the country. Biden claims he didn't take on #KamalaHarris in the debate because of the American public not wanting to see that.
America DID want to see it.
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#Biden claims his and Harris's positions "aren't any different, as we are finding out."
That is not correct. And @ChrisCuomo should have pushed back with CNN's own interview on that with Harris.
Here's the transcript.
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Since @ChrisCuomo didn't challenge #Biden and @DanMerica doesn't either, just presents Biden's words with no comment, it's important to note that Biden in fact pushed for a constitutional amendment to stop busing. (See transcript) Which is certainly not #KamalaHarris's POV.
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#Biden says he doesn't know why the debate was about the past, but it wasn't. Every issue-- #M4A #GND/#ClimateCrisis #immigration #guns-- was about now & America's future. Except for the exchange about what Biden himself raised a few weeks ago when he invoked segregationists.
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#Biden says he is not opposed to having a woman on the ticket with him as vice president.

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