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On the crime bill, Biden is groveling when he should be boasting

By Quin Hillyer
Published May 16, 2019 6:34pm ET
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On the crime bill, Biden is groveling when he should be boasting
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the Community Oven restaurant in Hampton, N.H., Monday, May 13, 2019. | (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Democrats have moved so far leftward that now Joe Biden is apologizing for a 1994 crime bill that, yes, actually cut crime.

Now the media is fact-checking Biden’s apology — a fate Biden could have avoided if he had done the right thing by bragging about the bill’s successes.

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