President Biden said Monday that the Republican Party is now “vastly diminished in numbers,” and that the wing led by former President Donald Trump represents “a significant minority of the American people”
President Biden said Monday that the Republican Party is now “vastly diminished in numbers,” and that the wing led by former President Donald Trump represents “a significant minority of the American people.”in Brussels, Biden was asked by Washington Post reporter Anne Gearan what assurances he could give to Western allies alarmed by the power Trump still wields among his supporters, even after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“What I’m saying to them is ‘Watch me,’” Biden responded. “They [the allies], like I do, believe that the American people are not going to sustain that kind of behavior.”“I think it’s appropriate to say that the Republican Party is vastly diminished in numbers,” he said. “The leadership of the Republican Party is fractured, and the Trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party, but it makes up a significant minority of the American people.”would appear to confirm Biden’s assessment.
On his first foreign trip as president, Biden also attributed the successful COVID-19 vaccination push to the character of the American people, praising them for “standing up and saying what we believe to be the case, not engaging in the overwhelming hyperbole that gets engaged in by so many today. ... When I said I was going to deal with beating the virus, I was going to focus on that, I was going to get millions of shots in people’s arms, it wasn’t me. I just knew the American people.
“What’s happened in terms of the consequence of President Trump’s phony populism has happened,” Biden said before turning his focus to Republican efforts to block the creation of a bipartisan congressional commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. “It is disappointing that so many of my Republican colleagues in the Senate who I know better have been reluctant to take on, for example, an investigation, because they are worried about being primaried.
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