Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I think the anger over the Harris- Biden exchange is not because she asked the question [View all]Celerity
(53,543 posts)Immediately after the Helms amendment was tabled, Biden proposed his own amendment to the $36 billion education bill, stipulating that none of those federal funds could be used by school systems
Bottom line, Biden was dead wrong, the fact-checks lit his claims up, and he then unbelievably offered up a goddamn state's rights defence to Senator Harris.
It was all round fail. It was a bad look, and shows potential (emphasis on potential to be far and give a large benefit of the doubt to him) systemic weaknesses once again starting to crop up with far too often regularity. He was also very shaky at the Poor Peoples' Campaign event.
I wont even get into his bizarre 'The NRA is not an enemy' bollocks, as that is outside the scope of this narrow discussion.
He really needs to up his game soon, or he will start to crater out.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden