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Potential Biden running mate Susan Rice showed how she would rebut Republican criticism of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, if shes picked. In an appearance on The View on Wednesday, the former national security adviser outlined a four-part defense of her statements in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, which she mistakenly initially described as a spontaneous protest over an internet video.
She did nothing wrong: Eight congressional committees over the next four years investigated every aspect of Benghazi and not one of them found that I had done anything wrong.
The GOP will attack other veep picks: I dont doubt that Republicans will use this and theyll attack whoever is Joe Bidens choice to be his vice president.
Republicans havent investigated similar attacks: Three American servicemembers were killed in a terrorist attack within the last year on American soil on a military base in Pensacola. ... This happened on Donald Trumps watch. Not one investigation.
Its a distraction. The main thing that theyre trying to distract from -- whether theyre attacking me or somebody else -- is the horrific reality that under Donald Trumps watch, 150,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, 30 million almost are out of work and our kids cant safely go back to school.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/postal-service-says-don-t-delay-ballot-request-campaign-update?srnd=politics-vp
LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)Although, Harris has a bit more animation and smiling going on. I just hope it is Rice.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I like the way that she tied up WHY we should be taking a global response approach to the virus instead of what a Trump is doing. If we dont kill the virus globally, we have no assurance that it wont mutate into something that our vaccine cant protect against.
LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)At this point, Biden can't go wrong with any of the rumored names.
RelativelyJones
(898 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Especially with having to clean up the total destruction Traitor tRUMP did to relationships around the world, while kissing ass with Putin's dictator club. Not to mention someone who can step in and start mitigating damage from Putin, and knows where and how to immediately castrate Putin. If Republicans and Right Wing groups need to have their links to Putin and the Russians put in full view, then show the country what they really are all about and why.
Now supposing the Democratic Party is put back in charge, I hope that they do not allow Republicans to keep sucking all the oxygen up with their fake scandals to whine and screech about... Hit them back where it hurts the most until they scatter back under their rocks and disappear from any relevancy.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)that wont help when the GOP runs ads of her on the Sunday shows saying the attack was caused by a video. The facts wont matter. They never did regarding Benghazi. They just have to run those clips of Rice saying something that later turned out to be untrue to question her credibility and trustworthiness. This election is too important to take the chance.