What happened when Joe Biden called Mike Pence 'a decent guy'?
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Why is our political climate more divided than at any time since the Civil War? Today's podcast explores the issue behind our divisiveness and offers three steps forward for Christians.
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| 0:00.0 | What happened when Joe Biden called Mike Pence a decent guy? This is Jim Denison's The Daily |
| 0:07.7 | Article podcast for Wednesday, March 6th, 2019. Joe Biden recently called Mike Pence a decent guy. |
| 0:14.9 | The outcry was immediate. Cynthia Nixon, an actress and unsuccessful candidate for New York |
| 0:19.9 | Governor, tweeted this response. |
| 0:22.3 | You've just called America's most anti-LGB elected leader a decent guy. |
| 0:26.6 | Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community. |
| 0:30.3 | Biden quickly apologized. |
| 0:32.4 | You're right, Cynthia, he wrote. |
| 0:33.8 | I was making a point in a foreign policy context, he explained. |
| 0:37.1 | But there's nothing |
| 0:37.6 | decent about being anti-LGBQ rights, and that includes the vice president. CNN's Chris Saliza |
| 0:43.2 | explained that Biden is a creature of a totally different political time, his comment, a reflection |
| 0:47.9 | of the general collegiality that reigned in politics when Biden came up in the game. However, as |
| 0:52.7 | Saliza notes, things have changed drastically |
| 0:54.9 | since then. Saliza assumes that Biden will run for president in 2020 and calls him a benefit |
| 1:00.5 | of the doubt guy running to lead a party who views the other side as not just dumb and incompetent, |
| 1:05.3 | but evil. Saliza has the facts on his side. A recent survey found that 61% of Democrats view Republicans |
| 1:11.9 | as racist slash bigoted slash sexist. 31% of Republicans feel the same way about Democrats. |
| 1:19.1 | 54% of Democrats consider Republicans to be ignorant. 49% of Republicans feel the same way about |
| 1:25.1 | Democrats. And 44% of Democrats consider Republicans to be spiteful. Fifty four percent of Republicans feel the same way about Democrats, and 44% of Democrats consider Republicans |
| 1:28.4 | to be spiteful. |
| 1:29.8 | 54% of Republicans feel this way about Democrats. |
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