Joe Biden: "People say he lacks the temperament to be president – I'd feel better if that's all he lacked." | POLITICO

Joe Biden, who's weighing a 2020 run, responded to backlash from some Democrats over him praising a Republican as "one of the finest guys I’ve ever worked with” https://politi.co/2B1ZLxM | POLITICO

Joe Biden on Tuesday asked Americans to appeal to their “better angels” in a speech he framed as a direct continuation of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The Democratic presidential nominee invoked Lincoln multiple times on the same ground where the 16th president stood more than 150 years ago during the Civil War. He also drew on former President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Black civil rights icons Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in his remarks. “Today, once again, we ar