Leigh Vogel/GettyJoe Biden insists that congressional Republicans will work with him once he’s elected president but no one, let alone those who worked with Biden in the last administration, actually believes him. The former vice president’s latest promise of a forthcoming wave of bipartisan cooperation
Joe Biden insists that congressional Republicans will work with him once he’s elected president but no one, let alone those who worked with Biden in the last administration, actually believes him.
But veterans of the Obama administration say that Biden is either being naive or is willfully selling voters on a political fairytale. But for many Obama veterans, the idea that such an approach is still possible, let alone worth replicating, is beyond comprehension. After all, they spent years in the administration insisting that the GOP’s “fever” would eventually break—only to discover they were wrong.
Biden’s campaign declined to comment, but pointed to a recent Quinnipiac Poll that asked respondents if “all other things are equal, would you prefer a candidate that will mostly work with Republicans or will mostly stand up to Republicans?” According to the survey, 52 percent of Democrats said they’d prefer a candidate who works with Republicans, while 39 percent who said they’d rather have a candidate who stands up to the GOP.
“If Biden were prepared to negotiate like he did during the fiscal cliff and the Bush tax cut extensions, where Republicans basically got everything we wanted and he got a tiny bit, I’m sure there would be deals to get done,” said a senior Senate leadership aide. On Capitol Hill Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers largely ducked Biden’s remarks, or treated them with a level of sarcasm that made it difficult to interpret how they truly felt.
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