Biden: Republicans to have ‘epiphany’ if he is elected

Bloomberg

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden predicted that big wins for his party in November could lead to an “epiphany” that convinces Republicans to join Democrats in pulling the country out of crisis.
“If we win as big as we possibly can, there’s going to be a great, great epiphany that’s going to take place, as we Catholics say,” Biden told donors at a high-dollar virtual fundraiser.
With Donald Trump out of office, congressional Republicans will lose their “fear of retribution” and “they’re going to begin to wonder about whether or not if they take me on and lose by just being obstructionist, whether they’re going to lose the rest of that blue-collar vote out there in the nation,” Biden said. “It’s going to be a different time,” he added. “Doesn’t mean it’s going to be, as they used to say when I was a kid, ‘kumbaya’ and everybody’s happy but it will — they know things have to be done and I think we can get a lot done.”
Biden has gained a strong lead over Trump in many polls, with surveys also showing a majority disapproving of what they view as a divisive tone from the president amid demands for racial justice and as the nation reels from the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
During the Democratic primaries, the former vice president and six-term senator from Delaware often spoke of the
potential for an “epiphany” by Republicans and a productive presidency if he were to win, drawing skepticism from people in both parties.
He’d backed away from the language in recent months. But he returned to the message in response to a question about how he’d govern, citing a New York Times column by David Brooks, who wrote that Biden is proposing “an agenda that could reshape the American economy and the landscape of American politics in fundamental ways.”
Biden also said that he hoped his greatest legacy as president would be “making sure that we took advantage like Roosevelt did of a crisis and turned the nation in a better place than we found it.”

Biden’s plan puts jobs, inequality on par with CO2
Bloomberg

When Joe Biden released his climate plan last week, the Democratic candidate for president emphasized one overarching goal—and it wasn’t the reduction of greenhouse gases. Instead, he unequivocally linked broad climate action to employment. “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is ‘hoax,’” Biden said in a speech unveiling the plan. “When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs.’” His proposal aims to create 1 million openings in the auto sector,
in part by investing in electric vehicle charging, plus another 1 million positions retrofitting homes for
energy efficiency and weather resilience. The word “union” appears 32 times in the plan’s 15-page outline.
A campaign promise is not policy, but the rhetoric and substance of Biden’s proposal represented two noteworthy developments.