“What made me pleased…is because we didn't wait a week, two weeks, three weeks for us to land on the position that will affect most Americans in the best way,” says RepLBR, a supporter of Joe Biden, after Biden’s reversal on the Hyde Amendment.
As Joe Biden prepared to tell a crowd that he'd changed his mind and now supported allowing federal funds to pay for abortions, he offered a disclaimer: He still didn't think he'd been wrong before.
"I make no apologies for my last position and I make no apologies for what I'm about to say," the former vice president told those gathered for a Democratic National Committee gala in Atlanta on Thursday night. Biden's remarks sought to avoid the appearance of flip-flopping on a key issue out of political expediency.
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