CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota defended presidential candidate Joe Biden after it was discovered portions of his campaign proposals were plagiarized. Biden’s 1987 presidential campaign was derailed after he plagiarized a speech from a British politician.
Biden’s campaign said several of the citations were “inadvertently” left out and had since been added.
“I will say [Sen.] Chris Coons, who we had on in the first hour had a really interesting defense to this though, which is, ‘Come on, guys, this compared to the things that Democrats say the president is getting away with,’ that might be something the Democrats use to offset any potential gaffs or problems that arise during the campaign,” anchor John Berman said.
“I mean not only that, don’t you go to the experts, to the experts’ website and lift some of their terminology and put it into your platform,” Camerota asked.
“No, no, you cite where you get your information from otherwise it’s plagiarism. That’s what got him into trouble in the first place,” CNN political analyst Joshua Green said.
“I hear you,” Camerota said.
