Historian Ted Widmer Likens Biden to Lincoln: ‘In Some Ways He Is Acting in the Way Lincoln Did’

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WIDMER: "In some ways he is acting in the way Lincoln did. Lincoln was fairly quiet. He always tried to speak in a unifying way about all Americans. He told southerners and he told friends who were communicated publicly saying he would not interfere with that domestic institutions which was a way of referring to slavery. The south was so angry they had lost. They had been used to controlling Washington for almost the entire history of the country. They liked power. They didn’t want to surrender it. Lincoln couldn’t win even being as calm as he was and as unifying as he tried to be. The southern states all began to succeed."