Biden: Trump ‘Has More in Common with George Wallace than He Does with George Washington’

‘We’re living through a rare moment in this nation’s history where our president isn’t up to the moment’

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BIDEN: “Our President has aligned himself with the darkest forces in this nation. And it makes winning this battle for the soul of our nation that much tougher, harder. Trump doesn’t understand what Franklin D. Roosevelt did. Roosevelt  said the presidency is 'preeminently a place of moral leadership.' He doesn’t see what JFK did when he said only the president represents the national interest. He’s blind to what Lyndon Baines Johnson said of the office when he said 'nothing makes a man come to grips more directly with his conscious than the presidency.' Trump offers no moral leadership. Seems to have no interest in unifying this nation. No evidence that the presidency has awakened his conscience in the least. Indeed, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced the political strategy of hate, racism and division. So it’s up to us as it was in the ‘20s. It’s up to us. We’re living through a rare moment in this nation’s history where our president isn’t up to the moment, where our president lacks the moral authority to lead, where our president has more in common with George Wallace than he does with George Washington.”

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