Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is trying to drive home the message that he is a “good man” at this week’s Democratic National Convention, party presidential candidate Joe Lieberman told the party Thursday in “Bill Hemmer Reports”.
In response to the host’s claim that much of the convention had presented a “grim” image of America under President Trump, Lieberman acknowledged that “grimly does not win.”
“The other vision for the last few nights … is Joe Biden a good man,” Lieberman added. “He’s an ordinary boy, he’s a family member, and that he has a big tent he’s pitched that includes a lot of Democrats as well as Republicans.”
As evidence, the former Connecticut senator pointed to several former Republican officials who fired Trump to distinguish Biden, former Gov. of Ohio, John Kasich and former chairman of the House Ethics Committee Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania.
If Biden formally accepts his party’s nomination later Thursday, Lieberman said, he should build on those endorsements and explain that the “broad group around him” is a testament to his own personal independence.
“[Biden] is not the prisoner of one element in the party, which I am sure the Trump people will try to say he is, “Lieberman added.
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Earlier Thursday, Trump visited Pennsylvania’s birth state Biden and claimed that the former vice president’s roots in Keystone State were too much.
Trump also warned that Democrats’ big write-offs are abusing their power over their constituencies, noting that he believes the Pennsylvania Democratic government will not trust Thomas Wolf on its coronavirus-based statewide social and business restrictions “until Nov. 4.”
