Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBiden to make 1st appearance since complaints about behavior
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459550-1/vice-president-biden-addresses-labor-group-considers-white-house-bidWASHINGTON (AP) In countless conversations over the past year, former Vice President Joe Biden, his advisers and his broad network of friends and family have openly discussed the vulnerabilities he would face if he ran for president. A voting record that is sometimes at odds with the Democratic Partys leftward shift. His age. And the affectionate brand of politics that has made him beloved by many Democrats and a target of Republicans for years.
What Biden likely didnt expect was to be confronting those issues so fully before even launching a campaign.
On Friday, Biden will make his first public appearance since several women began recounting encounters with him that left them uneasy. The first was Nevada politician Lucy Flores , who said she was uncomfortable when Biden kissed her on the back of the head backstage at a 2014 campaign event. Her account was countered by scores of women from prominent lawmakers to former Biden staffers who praised him as a warm, affectionate person and a supportive boss.
Its unclear whether Biden will address the situation in his remarks to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The 76-year-old said in a cellphone video released Wednesday that he understood social norms have begun to change and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/f9bb1b8c385044ffb74b2c725c3dd83b
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)Looks like the Ukrainian AG is about to unload some unpleasantness to US AG Barr. Maybe this is why Biden is holding out on announcing? Waiting to see how the election in Ukraine pans out?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
But then, as Bidens 2020 campaign ramped up over the past year, Lutsenko the Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden once hailed as a solid replacement for Shokin began looking into what happened with the Burisma case that had been shut down.
Lutsenko told me that, while reviewing the Burisma investigative files, he discovered members of the Board obtained funds as well as another U.S.-based legal entity, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, for consulting services.
Lutsenko said some of the evidence he knows about in the Burisma case may interest U.S. authorities and hed like to present that information to new U.S. Attorney General William Barr, particularly the vice presidents intervention.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided