Joe Biden: R's will have an "epiphany" after DT leaves WH, and they'll work with D's.

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Does anyone really believe that the R's are going to reform themselves once DT leaves the WH? That they would be willing to cooperate and get things done with a President Biden? Even though they decided at the outset of Obama's Presidency that their only legislative goal was to obstruct everything, so he would be a 1 term President?

No matter who we elect, won't the R's still have the same goal -- to hold him or her to one term, no matter how much their obstruction hurts the country?

Don't all the candidates need to realistic about this in order to plan for it?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/14/biden-republicans-trump-1321377

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday he expects Republicans will have an "epiphany" when President Donald Trump leaves office, and will embrace working with Democratic colleagues.

"I just think there is a way, and the thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke. You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends," Biden said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. "It's already beginning in the House now ... If we can't change, we're in trouble. This nation cannot function without generating consensus. It can't do it."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/joe-biden-republican-epiphany-trump.html

For comparison, here is what Biden said in 2012 about the same subject to MSNBC:

Biden seemed optimistic that both parties would work together if Obama is re-elected, arguing the “fever will have broken” and lawmakers could focus more on passing legislation than politics.

“There are still some solid Republican conservatives who understand what principled compromise means and are not wrapped up in ideological purity,” said Biden, insisting he knew a dozen Republican senators and up to three dozen House members that want to work with the Democrats.

After the election is over, Biden said members will say “’Hey man I no longer have an obligation to stick with the right of the party’… I really believe you’ll see movement. Real movement.”