Vice President Joe Biden predicted on Monday that Republican lawmakers would turn on Donald Trump if the GOP nominee is elected president.
“I think you’ll have first and foremost, [the] Republican Party saying how do we stop Donald Trump’s policies,” Biden told NPR’s Robert Siegel about a potential Trump White House. The 36-year Senate veteran cited accusations that Trump groped women as one of the reasons Republicans would not support him in the Oval Office.
Biden said Trump’s dismissal his lewd hot mic comments as “locker room talk” was an inaccurate portrayal of what men discuss in private.
“What Donald Trump did, I hope, is not a reflection of American public opinion, and the conduct of the vast majority of men,” Biden said. “I was a pretty good athlete. I spent a lot of time in a lot of locker rooms in high school and college. I never heard talk like that.”
Biden almost ran as a Democratic presidential candidate this election, but chose not to after the death of his son Beau due to brain cancer. As a Clinton supporter, Biden said America would succeed following her strategy of inclusion, and warned voters who support Trump’s ideology.
“I think when we appeal to the better angels of Americans, we’ve always succeeded. [Donald] Trump is out there doing something very dangerous,” Biden said.
