Former VP Biden: America in battle for "the soul" of nation

[Soph0571]

Former Vice President Joe Biden, still grieving the loss of his son to cancer and unsure whether he'll run for president in 2020, said Friday that America is in a battle for the nation's soul.

The Democrat spoke before more than 1,500 people at Southern Connecticut State University, hours after he was in Maryland to accept the Naval Academy Alumni Association's Distinguished Graduate Award on behalf of Republican Sen. John McCain. McCain is battling glioblastoma, the same aggressive brain cancer Biden's son, Beau, died from in 2015.

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But Biden — who has traded harsh fighting words with President Donald Trump over who would come out on top in a hypothetical fistfight — said the U.S. can't afford eight years of the current Republican administration.

"We're in a battle for the soul of this nation," he said.

[link:https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Former-VP-Biden-to-discuss-policy-issues-in-12775407.php|

[DFW]

1. I'm not sure we can afford even four years of this farce

Eight years would finish us as a world power--which is exactly what Russia and China want, so we need to keep a sharp eye out for who benefit, both strategically and economically, from the buffoonery of the Trump administration.

[oberliner]

2. What does that mean?

That sentence was posted with literally no elaboration on what he meant by it.