This year’s crop of Republican candidates love to align themselves with Ronald Reagan, but Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to think that’s a good thing.
“If Ronald Reagan were alive today seeking nomination, he could no more get the nomination of the Republican Party than I could get the nomination,” Biden said during an hourlong talk in Dubai, according to a pool report.
“I’m not joking,” he added. “So what you see is this movement to the extreme in the Republican Party.”
Biden, who also called American politics “petty and venal,” said the country is “reaping the downside of what has become a nasty political environment.”
