Vice President Joe Biden believes Hillary Clinton will most likely face public sexism if she becomes the first female president, claiming on Sunday that she has already been “battered and beaten” by members of the press.
“She has been so battered and beaten,” Biden, who endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee months after deciding not to launch his own White House bid, told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in a new interview. “We all make mistakes. She’s made mistakes, too.”
Clinton and her allies have spent the last several days defending a myriad of damaging revelations found in thousands of leaked emails from the archive of her campaign chairman, John Podesta.
Among other things, the emails revealed that Clinton championed open borders during a speech to executives at a Brazilian bank and admitted to having a “public and private position” on various issues. Her daughter, Chelsea, raised “serious concerns” in one email chain about overlap between the Clinton Foundation, foreign governments and a consulting firm with ties to Bill Clinton. And in another email, Clinton aides disparaged Catholics and Catholicism itself as “severely backwards.”
Biden said the former secretary of state can overcome the fallout from both the leaked emails and her labeling of Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorables” by “demonstrating where her heart is [and] what she cares about” between now and Election Day.
“What she cares about are all those people who are struggling,” he said. “That’s been who she is.”
