GOP/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I got elected as a 29-year-old kid the same year that Richard Nixon got elected in 1972. And politics today has gotten so mean and ugly and dirty, and everybody questioning motive and not focusing at all on trying to put things together, instead of disagreeing on substance, that you go to motive.
It has become so, so difficult for Republicans to be able to, unless they have real courage, to stand up and take on the president even if they think he should be taken on, because he is so — he has such vitriol. He has no empathy. And what happens is that he controls now somewhere between 30 percent and 35 percent of the electorate, which is the bulk of the — of the Republican Party.”
-Joe Biden, “Former VP and Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Speaks at a Town Hall,” cnn.com, Nov. 11, 2019