Pollak: Jill Biden Claims Husband Is a ‘Moderate’; Joe Biden Disagrees
Jill Biden, the wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, told
The View this week that her husband is a “moderate.” Oddly, that is a label that the former Vice President has rejected in the past. And today, Joe Biden is a “revolutionary.”
Last April, shortly before he entered the race, reporters suggested that Biden was a “moderate” and not a “progressive.” He
fired back: “For my whole career, I wish had been labeled in Delaware for the seven times I ran as a moderate. I was never labeled as a moderate.”
Moreover, Biden is not moving back to the center, as candidates typically do after securing their party’s nomination. Instead, he is moving left.
The
New York Times noted recently: “Mr. Biden is striking fewer of the moderate notes that won him the nomination, instead courting progressives with a new openness to systemic disruption.” The
Washington Post noted the same, quoting Biden: “We need some revolutionary institutional changes.”
Biden has started talking like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who promised a “political revolution” and
told supporters on the campaign trail last summer: “We need to transform the economics of this country and the politics of the country.”
Similarly, in May, Biden
said that the coronavirus pandemic presented “an incredible opportunity … to fundamentally transform the country.”
That echoed Sanders — and Barack Obama, who
told voters in October 2008 that his goal was “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Pollak: Jill Biden Claims Husband Is a 'Moderate'; Joe Biden Disagrees
