Since entering the presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden has faced repeated questions about past statements he’s made criticizing school busing, fondly remembering racist white senators, and helping pass draconian laws in the ill-conceived drug war.
On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team. A September 20, 1987, story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Biden had bragged about receiving an award from George Wallace, the former Alabama governor and one of America’s most notorious segregationists.
The same story went...
On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team. A September 20, 1987, story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Biden had bragged about receiving an award from George Wallace, the former Alabama governor and one of America’s most notorious segregationists.
The same story went...
- 7/19/2019
- by Andy Kroll and Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Twenty Democratic candidates for president have now had a chance to say their piece on a debate stage. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro turned in impressive performances from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, while Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, and John Delaney didn’t seem to resonate the way they may have hoped. The second half of the field of qualifiers — headlined by frontrunner Joe Biden and the progressive Bernie Sanders — had their chance on Thursday. Here’s who our take on who...
- 6/28/2019
- by Ryan Bort, Tessa Stuart and Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Biden has refused to apologize for remarks in which he praised the “civility” of an arch-segregationist Mississippi senator he used to collaborate with. He has called on the critics of his remarks, in particular 2020 rival Cory Booker, to make amends, instead. “Cory should apologize. He knows better,” Biden said. “I’ve not a racist bone in my body.”
The controversy began at a fundraiser on Tuesday night. Biden was lamenting the decline of comity in America’s political culture when his remarks took a dark detour. The former vice...
The controversy began at a fundraiser on Tuesday night. Biden was lamenting the decline of comity in America’s political culture when his remarks took a dark detour. The former vice...
- 6/20/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
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