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When thinking about who can defeat Trump, it would be complete malpractice to nominate someone seen as the ultimate political insider -- like Joe Biden.
Someone who conspired in backrooms for decades with credit card lobbyists and corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell. Someone who voted for every corporate bankruptcy bill, Wall Street deregulation, and trade deal that voters hate.
Biden would ironically cede the outsider mantle to a corrupt incumbent president. But that's not the only problem with Biden. See below.
Click here to pledge NOT to vote for Joe Biden in the primary -- and tell us why. (If you don't support Biden, but don't want to sign the pledge, can you say why here?)
Here's more of why Joe Biden is not Democrats best foot forward:
- Recently, Biden said Clinton should have taken the high road on the Access Hollywood tapes and called women candidates "angry."
- Biden voted for Wall Street deregulation, NAFTA, and the Iraq War.
- After immigrants confronted Biden at a recent campaign event about Obama's record of deportations, Biden told the speaker, "You should vote for Trump."
- Biden tried to cut Social Security benefits multiple times -- a position that alienates Republican, Democratic, and Independent voters.
- In response to a debate question about the legacy of slavery, Biden's rambling answer included an old racist idea about how parents of color don't know how to raise their kids: "It’s not that they don’t want to help -- They don’t know what quite what to do" he said. His answer? “Leave the record player on at night” to teach kids more words.
- When fondly recalling days of greater civility in the Senate, Biden invoked memories of working with two staunch segregationists to "get things done."
- Biden has been recorded making old fashioned, sexist jokes to young women, like saying "I'll bet you're as bright as you are good-looking" to a 10-year-old, and telling men they have "great taste" while looking their wives up and down.
- His attempt to seem in touch with racial strife recently was to talk about a "gang leader" he once knew named Corn Pop. Many Black leaders mocked him.
- Biden implied the solution to sexism was...nominating him. Emily's List's VP Christina Reynolds rebutted.
- Biden represented the credit card capital of Delaware -- and opposed Elizabeth Warren for years as she tried to get relief for victims of spiraling, predatory credit card debt.
Click here if you pledge not to vote for Joe Biden in the primary -- and tell us why.
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