Joe Biden supports ban on federal funds for abortion except for rape/incest - Polidicks

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-reaffirms-support-for-hyde-amendment-which-bans-federal-funds-for-abortion?source=twitter&via=desktop?ref=home Joe Biden set himself apart from his Democratic competitors Tuesday by affirming his support for the Hyde Amendment, a law barring federal funds for abortion services, except in the cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is in danger. The former vice president’s campaign team told NBC News that Biden does not support repealing the 1976 law, which has become unpopular with Democratic candidates this election cycle. The statement differentiated him from 2020 frontrunners like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg—all of whom have pledged to repeal the amendment. It also set him at odds with the 2016 Democratic platform, which specifically called for a repeal of the Hyde Amendment, putting him in a potentially awkward position should he become the 2020 nominee. The comment also elicited confusion, as Biden told an ACLU volunteer just last month that he would commit to abolishing the law. “It can’t stay,” he said at the time. But Biden’s campaign said Tuesday, according to CNN, that the former vice president misheard that volunteer and thought she was referring to the Mexico City Rule, which requires foreign non-governmental organizations certify they do not support or provide abortion services before receiving U.S. funding. As such, the campaign said, Biden has not changed his opinion on Hyde.

I give him 3 months before he switches to the GOP ticket

Hillary 2.0 just ran him through despite constantly proving how fucking disgusting and unlikeable he is. Trump 2020 here we go, choo choo!

Sounds like Biden can't remember the party lines correctly anymore.

Just another notch on the tally of "things Joe Biden does/says/thinks that I dont like". It's a pretty long tally at this point.

Dear God, how are the Democrats pushing out Hillary 2.0 at a time like this?

we're going to have another 4 years of trump because of this fucking idiot aren't we

He just lost the election.

Biden is worse than Hillary 2.0, the most conservative thing Hillary did during her campaign was say that her favorite book was the Bible. She wouldn't be caught dead supporting a ban on federal funds for abortion.

I sure am glad the DNC took the right lessons and priorities away from 2016, and that they were properly humbled by the Trump victory.

Yeah, there's no question he's worse. Also, at least the Bible thing doesn't have real world consequences like the abortion thing.

I wish folks would realize that they don't care. If their groomed pooch can't win then they'll gladly take the L.

Christ, Biden's edging ever so close to being a democrat in name only. Many of his bullshit views already are there (hello bootstraps!) but something like this is still vile coming from the (unfortunately) likely democrat nominee.

So.... We now have what could be the Democratic candidate for the 2020 Election now accepting anti-abortion views as a Norm. Fuck Everything

Everyone fucking vote in the dem primary, its just as or more important than the 2020 election.

He has to be brought off. Nobody can fuck up this badly and throw an election away.

Personally, I'm just hoping that this will lead people to stop supporting him as they realize that he has absolutely no electable qualities other than "was obama's buddy"

I am open to being corrected, but to me this sounds much more conservative than Hillary ever was during 2016

But look, he's going to make an exception for rape and incest! So he's not a Republican! Being a reasonable centrist is all about making middle ground compromise between two definitely equally valid standpoints. What wouldn't we do without such enlightened centrists?

Can't wait until the Overton window shifts and this somehow becomes the moderate position on abortion.

And that's his Dem POTUS ticket invalidated. One of the big items on that platform is easier access to services like abortion, not harder.

Honestly. Most of the voter base probably don't even know very much about him besides the fact that he was a funny meme guy and probably would vote for him simply because he was Obama's VP. We can only hope this backwards ass view of his gets blown up all over the news

Getting sick of Zirconium Joe.

I hope, but MSNBC and CNN shown this poll that didn't sample 18 to 49 year olds as proof that Biden was in the lead

run as a republican and primary against trump, maybe you'll make yourself useful for once

I genuinely don't understand. Joe Biden isn't principled. He doesn't seem to have a strong ideology. He probably doesn't really give a shit about abortion one way or the other, deep down. Joe Biden is only going to say what he thinks will help him win. So how the fuck could he possibly come to the conclusion that this is a winning strategy in the fucking Democratic primary?!

this probably damages his nomination chances more than people give it credit for tbqh, abortion is naturally a huge issue for women voters and this just isn't the ticket Hillary (or any other dem candidate i can think of???) won the primary on

We're all doomed. BTW f*** off Joe go back to the retirement center you crawled out of!

Because joe biden fucking sucks

I mean, on the bright side doesn't this mean the Dem Party can't support him anymore since this pretty much goes against their platform? It means they'll have to pick someone else to support in the primaries.