You can count House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy among those saying they have doubts about Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden’s prospects.
The California Republican offered the following take on Thursday in a Wall Street Journal interview:
‘This party is angry, the Democratic Party, they’re emotional in the process. I don’t think Joe Biden is going to be the nominee.’
McCarthy said the former vice president is “going to collapse in the process,” adding that “time has passed him by.”
“When I look at the Democratic Party today and the movement of where they’re going, I think there’s really a chance that it’ll be Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren,” the top lawmaker also said. He added that having Sanders or Warren as the Democratic nominee could help the GOP take back control of the House in 2020, as Republicans could paint the other side as extreme.
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Biden has a big lead over his rivals in a RealClearPolitics average of polls, drawing 32% support vs. 15% for Sanders and 12% for Warren. But his campaign has hit some turbulence this week, as Biden has refused to apologize for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists.
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