Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday said former Vice President Joe Biden’s apology for calling him a “decent guy” during a recent speech shows the depravity of ideas and lack of values by those on the Left.
“The way Joe Biden caved in to liberal activists after making a kind comment toward me is evidence of the pressure that all of their candidates are going to face,” Pence said on “Fox & Friends” about Biden’s late February speech in Omaha, in which he offered guarded praise of his successor. Democrats, Pence said, are “largely being driven by the most extreme elements in their party.”
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.@JoeBiden recently took heat for calling @VP a decent guy.
That didn’t sit well with some on the left.
Pence: “The way Joe Biden caved in to liberal activists after making a kind comment toward me is evidence of the pressure that all of their candidates are going to face.” pic.twitter.com/yQiwFv2T52
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 14, 2019
“The fact of the matter is it was followed on by a guy who’s a decent guy, our vice president, who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said, ‘I’m here on behalf of President Trump,’ and there was dead silence. Dead silence,” Biden said about Pence, in reference to the international community’s reaction to Pence’s speech at the Munich Conference in early February.
After taking considerable heat for his comments about his successor, most notably liberal activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, Biden backtracked.
“You’ve just called America’s most anti-LGBT elected leader “a decent guy,” Nixon tweeted. “Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community.” Biden responded, saying Nixon was right.
“I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a vice president wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage,” he said. “But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the vice president.”
You’re right, Cynthia. I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage.
But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 28, 2019
“Sometimes it seems like we can’t govern ourselves, even talk to one another. If you notice, I get criticized for saying anything nice about a Republican. Folks, that’s not who we are,” Biden said just a few weeks later, lamenting the “mean pettiness that has taken over public discourse.”
Biden continues to mull over a presidential run in 2020, with many expecting him to throw his hat in the ring
