While some of Biden's vulnerabilities have been exposed, it is clear that most of his rivals are reluctant to exploit them directly — at least for now.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The campaign schedule threatened to conspire against Joe Biden this weekend amid simmering controversy over, as the former vice president was suddenly just one of a crowded crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls here.
"To the extent that — that anybody thought that I meant something different, that is not what I intended," he told Al Sharpton in an MSNBC interview on Saturday night. Cory Booker's address Saturday night, just before Biden's, was one of the few to silence the crowd who listened in rapt attention as he challenged Democrats to look beyond simply the need to defeat Trump.Booker had been one of the Democrats who had seized most strongly on Biden's comments at a New York fundraiser on Tuesday at which he recalled the"civil" atmosphere in the Senate decades ago and his work with the segregationist Sens. James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.
Voters and prominent Democrats here were more likely to give Biden the benefit of the doubt than raise the issue as a real liability for him. Biden has been visiting the state since he was elected to the Senate in 1972, and has maintained close connections with prominent Democrats here over the years.
"The fact that he can't come out and apologize for the way he says things and, you know, when he knows that he's kind of ticked a lot of people off," she said."Don't be Trump."
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