CNN’s John King fact-checked 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden over comments he made about the Iraq War during a segment on his show Tuesday afternoon.
The panel, which featured Phil Mattingly, Julie Pace, Arlette Saenz, and Vivian Salama, discussed recent blunders from the former vice president. He also claimed in an interview with NPR earlier on Tuesday that he voted in favor of authorizing the use of military force in Iraq in 2002 after meeting with President George W. Bush, and said that he “came out against the war at that moment.”
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King played a snippet from the Biden-NPR interview and then added, “‘Immediately at the moment that it started, I came out against the war.’ No, he did not. No, he did not, and not for some time. In 2005, he acknowledged his vote was a mistake, so a lot quicker than a lot of other Democrats, but not immediately, not even close.”
“It’s some revisionist history for sure there. The question about Joe Biden is what do voters decide is most important to them in this election. Joe Biden has a deep reservoir of good will in the Democratic Party that’s mostly built up during the eight years that he was vice president, that really did change the public’s perception of Joe Biden,” Pace chimed in.
The panel also hit Biden for telling a false war story and then standing by it when he was confronted.
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