Convention looks to keep energy high after yesterday’s VP announcement and surprise appearance by ex-president
Joe Biden was pressed, during his interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Monday, on whether he had done any “soul-searching” about whether his language could “incite people who are not balanced”. Biden said:
Look. How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when the president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because you might incite somebody?
Look. I have not engaged in that rhetoric. Now, my opponent has engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about there will be a bloodbath if he loses, talking about how he’s going to forgive all the … actually, I guess suspend the sentence of all that were arrested and sentenced to go jail because of what happened at the Capitol. I’m not out there making fun of … like, remember the picture of Donald Trump when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was hit with a hammer, talking about it? Joking about it?
When you say that there’s nothing wrong with going to the Capitol … putting up a noose for the former vice-president, and then you say you’re going to forgive people for that?
I didn’t say crosshairs. I was talking about ‘focus on’. The truth of the matter was, I guess what I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.
It was a mistake to use the word. I didn’t mean … I didn’t say crosshairs. I meant bullseye … I meant focus on it. Focus on what he’s doing. Focus on his policies. Focus on the number of lies he told in the debate.
Continue reading…Convention looks to keep energy high after yesterday’s VP announcement and surprise appearance by ex-presidentJoe Biden was pressed, during his interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Monday, on whether he had done any “soul-searching” about whether his language could “incite people who are not balanced”. Biden said:Look. How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when the president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because you might incite somebody?Look. I have not engaged in that rhetoric. Now, my opponent has engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about there will be a bloodbath if he loses, talking about how he’s going to forgive all the … actually, I guess suspend the sentence of all that were arrested and sentenced to go jail because of what happened at the Capitol. I’m not out there making fun of … like, remember the picture of Donald Trump when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was hit with a hammer, talking about it? Joking about it?When you say that there’s nothing wrong with going to the Capitol … putting up a noose for the former vice-president, and then you say you’re going to forgive people for that?I didn’t say crosshairs. I was talking about ‘focus on’. The truth of the matter was, I guess what I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.It was a mistake to use the word. I didn’t mean … I didn’t say crosshairs. I meant bullseye … I meant focus on it. Focus on what he’s doing. Focus on his policies. Focus on the number of lies he told in the debate. Continue reading…