Former Vice President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that Republicans will have an
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.
«Real change isn’t coming from epiphanies by Mitch McConnell and other corrupt Republican politicians, but from all of us organizing for change together,» the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said in a statement Tuesday. «Just like his support of NAFTA and a middle ground on the existential climate crisis, this epiphany comment is the latest example of Biden operating in an insider world of yesteryear and shows that he is our worst foot forward in the general election.»
Biden acknowledged the tension with other Democrats later Tuesday at a house party in Nashua, New Hampshire.
«We’re in a situation now, folks, where I don’t agree with my friends and we’ve got a lot of good people running who say, ‘No, no. That’s old-time politics,'» he said.
Still, Biden — who was known during his tenure as vice president for striking deals with recalcitrant Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — insisted that Democrats need to seek consensus.
