Dick Durbin: Hillary is "flat out wrong" about Biden not conceding

[New Breed Leader]

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[beachbumbob]

1. it was a setup question that Durbin got trap into an answer, had the hillary quote been in its

entirety, the answer would have been in full support of not conceding UNTIL EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED

[SharonClark]

3. Good to know the context.

Do Dems, and especially Durbin, need to automatically state "I need to see the quote in context before I reply"?

Rethugs always claim to not having seen or heard Trump's latest outrage.

[beachbumbob]

10. yep, you gotta look at any media interveiw as gotch moments for sure

as this is their SOLE purpose going forward is to diminish Biden and democrats

[former9thward]

12. "Every vote" takes weeks and weeks to count.

As we see in the case of CA every election. That does not mean we do not know the results of most of the elections in CA before "every vote" is counted. This election we may have dozens of states who don't have "every vote" counted for many weeks. So her quote was wrong even with all the context. Durbin knew her full quote. He was right and Clinton was wrong.

[beachbumbob]

13. yep. No court can do anything for a month or 2 after the election to interfere with process

of vote counting and certifying the results even in 2000, wasn;t until end of December. By then, the overwhelming popular vote margin will be hard to ignore


even a 6-3 conservative court has to allow the state election's people to do their job and no injunctive relief can be expected to happen any time too soon immediately after Nov 3rd. But ignorant people are easily scared and fooled

[CrispyQ]

2. A little more insight into what Stephanopoulos did.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214142294

I'm so sick of dirty tactics like this.

[Boogiemack]

5. Democrats need to be smarter and not allow themselves to get trapped like this.

Ask for the full context to questions that don't even seem right.

[CrispyQ]

7. Totally agree!

We know the media favors the repubs, we know they do crap like this. We need to be better prepared.

[beachbumbob]

14. 100% expcted, I am surprise Durbin was caught off guard like that

[brush]

4. Durbin was set up by Stephanopolis. I would think he'd be more knowledgeable...

about these tactics. It should be obvious to him that Hillary is advocating that Biden not concede until all ballot controversies are satisfied and all votes counted—including mail-in ballots that the trump campaign are most likely going to contest.

We don't want a repeat of the Gore concession in 2000 when he actually won and should've stuck it out until the ballot controversies were settled.

I'm disappointed and surprised at Durbin. He should know better.

[agingdem]

6. This concede thing is bogus..

Stephanopoulos "trimming" Hillary's statement to fit his narrative is a non-issue and Durbin's response to the "gotcha" question means nothing ...

[triron]

8. Fuck Stephanopoulis. Media pig.