“I’m really worried that no party should have too much power,' Biden said
Photo: SEAN RAYFORD/Getty Images Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden surely has an abundant list of concerns as he chases down the nomination: An ascendant small-town mayor at the top of the polls in Iowa, an underrated Sanders campaign, and the GOP plan to stymie the impeachment process with allegations of Biden family corruption could be chief among them. But on Friday, as part of his eight-day No Malarkey tour of Iowa, the former vice-president expressed an unexpected 2020 anxiety.
“I’m really worried that no party should have too much power,” he told a crowd in Decorah, according to BuzzFeed News. “You need a countervailing force.” That idea is a hallmark of independent voters splitting their ticket in pursuit of so-called checks and balances on the party in power. But as New York’s Ed Kilgore notes, that impulse can “produce the very abuses of power they claim to fear.”
Biden also said that he anticipated “serious consequences” for the GOP once Trump is out of office, as Americans come to terms with the damages that he done to the GOP. This assessment suggests that Biden may not have been closely observing the impeachment hearings, where prominent Republicans doubled down on the conspiratorial rhetoric forwarded by the president and his favorite television station.
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