The Biden-McConnell Relationship
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🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:34.6 | There's this question I keep asking myself. As I try to game out with the next few weeks |
| 0:39.2 | are going to look like in Washington. Is Joe Biden's version of Unity going to be a |
| 0:44.5 | rallying cry or a punchline? You can already see some Republicans starting to sneer at |
| 0:52.3 | this word, implying that rolling back a ban on transgender service members or pushing |
| 0:58.1 | for a stimulus plan are somehow antithetical to Unity. And then you hear some Biden allies |
| 1:05.4 | calmly staying the course, implying we got this. |
| 1:14.6 | This is Senator Chris Coons, the day the president was sworn in. He replaced Biden in the |
| 1:19.7 | Senate. They're close. And you can tell, he's really embracing the whole Unity idea. |
| 1:25.9 | A president Biden gave a great address that called on us to look at the moments in our |
| 1:32.0 | history when we've overcome division, when we've tackled great challenges, and when we've |
| 1:37.5 | made progress together. |
| 1:39.4 | But when Senator Coons is pressed about whether Biden can really do the kind of unifying |
| 1:44.9 | he wants, he has this revealing exchange. He says the way we think about Unity, it's |
| 1:51.2 | going to hinge on one person. |
| 1:53.5 | And the fact that majority leader, outgoing majority leader Mitch McConnell joined Joe |
| 1:59.1 | Biden for worship this morning and skipped Donald Trump's departure ceremony from Andrews |
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