Americans have an “obligation” to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance to show what he can do, Vice-President Joe Biden said Wednesday during an impromptu stop at a Delaware state celebration on the U.S. Capitol grounds.
The former Democratic senator also spoke hopefully about the future after presiding over a successful vote on the 21st Century Cures Act, a medical funding bill worth more than $6 billion that provides money for multiple administration priorities, including the VP’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative. Roll Call has the story:
Biden, who also tamped down speculation about a presidential run in 2020, was ahead of many Democrats in warning of the electoral peril of drifting from middle-American voters. In late August, several weeks before the election, he said his party hadn’t been “showing enough respect” to such people.
“There is a new breed of Democrat that is represented by our administration, in my view, and the smart guys, the guys and gals who are Harvard, Yale, Penn graduates; the very, very well-informed, well-educated, elites of the party. They are the new version, if they don’t watch it, of the limousine liberals when I was coming up in the 60s,” he told the Atlantic.
