{"id":1217131,"date":"2022-01-14T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217131"},"modified":"2022-01-14T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:34:53","slug":"joe-biden-claims-he-ran-to-unite-the-country-after-comparing-republicans-to-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-claims-he-ran-to-unite-the-country-after-comparing-republicans-to-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Claims He Ran to &#039;Unite the Country&#039; After Comparing Republicans to Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-claims-he-ran-to-unite-the-country-after-comparing-republicans-to-racists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden claimed he ran for office to \u201cunite the country\u201d just days after he compared Republicans and even some Democrat senators to racists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran for president to unite the country,\u201d Biden said during a speech on his video set across the street from the White House on the importance of infrastructure spending.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, Biden angrily denounced the Senate, calling it a \u201cshell of its former self\u201d for blocking legislation that would federalize state and local elections and open up elections to potential fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said senators who opposed the federal law were choosing the side of historical racists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden berated the Senate for refusing to eliminate the Senate filibuster rules to pass the legislation, a step that even some moderate Democrats do not oppose.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Republicans reacted to the speech with anger, calling out Biden for his divisive rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/romney-rips-bidens-speech-defends-filibuster\/\">criticized<\/a> Biden, noting he \u201caccused a number of my good and principled colleagues in the Senate of having sinister, even racist inclinations\u201d and said the president indicated he was not interested in \u201cunifying the country\u201d with his rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mcconnell-biden-voting-rights-filibuster-07015c5f-e66f-4ec6-a400-8e8d5f90a886.html\">ripped<\/a> Biden\u2019s speech as a \u201crant\u201d that was \u201cincorrect, incoherent, and beneath his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) upstaged Biden by taking the floor of the Senate to denounce his plan to eliminate the filibuster, just minutes before he arrived on Capitol Hill to make his case to Democrats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19478282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19478282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KS.jpg\" alt=\"In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden is set to meet privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party\u2019s long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Before he arrived Sinema blunted the bill\u2019s chances further, declaring she could not support a \u201cshort sighted\u201d rules change to get past a Republican blockade.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyrsten Sinema declared she could not support a \u201cshort-sighted\u201d rules change to get past a Republican blockade. (Senate Television via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even Sen. Dick Durbin <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/589499-durbin-perhaps-the-president-went-a-little-too-far-in-his-rhetoric-in-georgia\">admitted<\/a> that \u201cperhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric\u201d in an interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested critics of Biden\u2019s speech were not acting \u201con the level\u201d by saying the president was calling his political opponents racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was not comparing them as humans, he was comparing the choice to those figures in history,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed he ran for office to \u201cunite the country\u201d just days after he compared Republicans and even some Democrat senators to racists. \u201cI ran for president to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}