This notion being aggressively promoted by ABC’s political team—that Biden is betraying campaign promises by not allowing Republicans in the minority to dictate what parts of his agenda he’s allowed to do—is more doctrinaire than what you get from hardline party operatives.
https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1381239364219498507
What Biden said about being ‘transitional’ during the campaign, which Karl’s reel truncates pretty hilariously, was that he would be “a bridge” to a younger generation of *Democratic* politicians.
https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/1237191781231493120?s=21
Biden’s platform was widely regarded as the most progressive of any Democratic nominee for president, thanks in large part to the committees he set up seeking unity with the supporters of the Sanders campaign.
These were called “unity task force committees,” but they weren’t promising unity with Mitch McConnell. politico.com/news/2020/07/0…
As Bryan suggests, there are other, more plausible routes to the kind of national consensus that passes for moderation than getting the congressional GOP—whose fortunes depend on Biden’s destruction—to bless his efforts. But you won’t hear that from ABC.
https://twitter.com/bricey16/status/1381275677987590148?s=21
https://twitter.com/bricey16/status/1381275677987590148
Meanwhile, across the aisle
https://twitter.com/jmartnyt/status/1381277091413565446?s=21
https://twitter.com/jmartnyt/status/1381277091413565446
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