Biden (Once Again) Predicts The GOP Will Eventually Have An ‘Epiphany’

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While campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke of an impending “epiphany” that the Republican Party will likely have once President Trump is out of office.

“I just think there is a way, and the thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke. You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends,” Biden said, according to several news outlets there. “It’s already beginning in the House now … If we can’t change, we’re in trouble. This nation cannot function without generating consensus. It can’t do it.”

Biden also reportedly harped that the Republican Party is not “your father’s Republican Party.” But the former vice president’s “epiphany” assessment of the party across the aisle isn’t new. As the Washington Post pointed out, Biden made similar comments about the GOP in 2008 and 2012, long before President Trump was even a figure on the political landscape, though in 2012 he was alluding to how far-right the Party had gone in recent years.

Biden has acknowledged in the past that many see his affection for Republicans to be a deterrent for his presidential ambitions, but the former vice president has shrugged off that criticism in the past.

“I read in the New York Times today that I — that one of my problems is if I ever run for president, I like Republicans,” Biden said in January. “Bless me father for I have sinned. But…from where I come from I don’t know how you get anything done.”

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  1. And it will be: “WTF was in that orange kool-aid?”

  2. This is one of the reasons I don’t think Joe is right this election. He really thinks Trump is the problem and not just a symptom. Trump, as bad as he is, simply reflects the modern GOP. He is just the front man.

  3. This after what they did to Obama?

    Battered wife syndrome.

    Idiot.

    At lest one person is out from my list of potential Dem Presidential candidates.

  4. Avatar for grack grack says:

    You can’t spell epiphany without pfffft… Well you can, but that’s still my reaction … pfffft.

  5. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Fuck his Republican friends. He is in the wrong century.

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