Biden invoking Obama's picking to defend record

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Biden invoking Obama's picking him for vice president to defend record

Joe Biden on Saturday will offer his most direct response yet to questions about his record in the Senate especially on issues of race, arguing that Barack Obama’s selection of him as his vice president is the ultimate validation of that record.

“I was vetted by him and selected by him. I will take his judgment of my record, my character, and my ability to handle the job over anyone else’s,” Biden will say at an afternoon event in Sumter, South Carolina, according to advance remarks provided by his campaign.

The campaign says Biden’s remarks will center on why he entered public service in the first place and that fighting for civil rights “galvanized him” first to become a public defender and to run for the county council in Delaware.
He will also push back on rivals who want to “weaponize” his decades-long service in the Senate and, in his view, distort the record — arguing that he long fought for change within the Senate.

“America in 2019 is a very different place than the America of the 1970s. And that’s a good thing,” Biden will say. “I’ve witnessed an incredible amount of change in this nation and I’ve worked to make that change happen. And yes — I’ve changed also.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-invoking-obama-s-picking-him-vice-president-defend-record-n1027096

So... it all comes down to the Obama Halo effect?

[Hortensis]

1. Of course. It's extremely meaningful.