Joe Biden tells donors that the UK election holds lessons for the 2020 White House race
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday sought to draw parallels between the results of the United Kingdom’s general election and the 2020 White House race — arguing that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resounding victory should warn Democrats against veering too far left in their fight to defeat President Donald Trump.
“Boris Johnson is winning in a walk,” Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, told attendees of a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco. The prime minister’s Conservative Party captured an overwhelming parliamentary majority in Thursday’s election, taking dozens of seats in Britain’s House of Commons from opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Biden has advanced a more moderate political ideology throughout the Democratic primary, criticizing sweeping policy proposals from the field’s leading progressive contenders, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Some of Biden’s rivals have slammed his appeals for bipartisanship as naive and outdated given the rancor of Washington and levels of animosity between Democratic and Republican lawmakers. But Biden pushed back against that critique Thursday, charging that “there’s not a single candidate running who has ever passed a major piece of legislation” in Congress.
Biden insisted that while his competitors employ a “completely different style,” he never questions others’ motives and always attempts to find common ground. “Presidents are supposed to be able to persuade and work something out,” he said, adding that he thinks he has “been relatively good at doing that.”
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