NEW w/ @asteadwesley: @LeahDaughtry, longtime Dem party leader, says Biden "needs to issue an apology immediately.”
Our story on backlash to segregationist remarks. Internally, Biden's allies and some advisers wish he would stick to talking about Bob Dolehttps://nyti.ms/2FlnATr
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“I just really don’t understand for the life of me what the VP could have been thinking, to bring the names of Talmadge&others who are well-known conservative segregationists into any conversation referencing civility,”
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Biden's team notes he's made these references for years in effort to make a point about finding common ground w/those with whom you disagree. But privately some of his allies and advisers wish he'd use different names--like McCain or Dole--to make that arghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/biden-eastland.html …
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meanwhile, Rev. Joseph Darby, an influential African-American pastor in SC who has long been close to Biden: Not "the examples I would use, but I don’t think that merits an apology.He was talking about the way the Senate used to work.That’s the way the Senate used to work”
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