Former Vice President Joe Biden's vote in favor of the Iraq War could hurt him with a key demographic in 2020.
Overall, nearly three-in-ten Democrats said they were less likely to vote for Biden because of his vote on Iraq, according to the new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.and passed the Senate with 77 votes in favor, was even more unpopular with Democratic voters than other aspects of his record such as his role in drafting the 1994 crime bill.Biden said
on NBC's Meet the Press at the time."It was a mistake to assume the president would use the authority we gave him properly...We gave the president the authority to unite the world to isolate Saddam. And the fact of the matter is, we went too soon. We went without sufficient force, and we went without a plan."supported the Iraq War at its onset. But the war was sold to the public under the false pretense Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
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