“I can’t imagine being President... and having all of one party plus someone from your own party vote to say you should be thrown out of office and view that as a victory,” says presidential candidate Joe Biden on President Trump’s acquittal. CNNTownhall
Faced with Sen. Bernie Sanders' criticism of his record on Social Security, former Vice President Joe Biden promised to protect and expand the program, then called out Sanders' supporters for distorting his position in a misleadingly edited video.
Biden touted his own campaign's plan before responding to a single clip in which he appears to be agreeing with former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan. "Well I just have look at the facts," Biden said. He then cited Politifact, which wrote that the video in question"misrepresented my position on Social Security.""Whether he did it or not, his supporters put out a clip that took out of context what I said," Biden said. The Sanders campaign played up the video, but did not cut or create it.
"Folks, I’ve been a strong supporter of Social Security my whole career," Biden added,"and the fact of the matter is I’m the one that has a concrete as to how to make it work and I think I can get it done."Many high-ranking Democrats in the 1980s and 1990s ---- sought to signal their seriousness about the deficit by expressing a willingness to negotiate with the GOP over plans to slow its growth or raise the retirement age.
Despite having gone on the record in the past decades saying he would be willing to buck his party to strike a bipartisan deal on Social Security, Biden drew a clear line on one of the most aggressive GOP proposals: The George W. Bush administration quickly abandoned a 2005 move to privatize it.
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