Biden says he ‘admires the hell out of’ Liz Cheney while tearing into ‘mega MAGA Republicans’

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Biden says he ‘admires the hell out of’ Liz Cheney while tearing into ‘mega MAGA Republicans’: President predicts record-breaking midterm election turnout but admits he’s ‘concerned’ about threats to democracy

  • President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart
  • Said threats to democracy would not come to fruition if they are taken seriously
  • He also suggested more moderate Republicans aren’t running for office because they’re afraid for their ‘physical wellbeing’ 
  • The president accused Donald Trump of ‘modern’ race-baiting tactics  

President Joe Biden praised outgoing GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in a new interview on Sunday while ripping ‘mega MAGA Republicans’ with the midterm elections just over two weeks away.

Speaking to MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart in a sit-down recorded on Friday, Biden also suggested that most moderate Republicans are too worried about ‘their physical wellbeing’ to run for office in such a divisive climate.

While admitting he did share concern about the growing number of threats forcing election workers off the job as well as 2020 election deniers running for office, the president still struck a hopeful note despite months of bleak election projections for his party.

‘I think we should be concerned. Look, there’s nothing automatic about democracy. Remember when you’re in undergraduate school, talking about every generation has to protect democracy? Well, it really does,’ Biden said.

‘[W]e’ve reached a point where there has been such a division, and you have what I call the mega MAGA Republicans who are- think that it’s alright to threaten violence.’

Biden’s return to the campaign trail has been marked by fiery rhetoric toward Republicans, in particular those who support Donald Trump.

He’s accused them of being fringe extremists amid GOP-led states’ crackdowns on election security and abortion rights.

President Joe Biden sat down with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart for an interview that aired Sunday

President Joe Biden sat down with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart for an interview that aired Sunday

He did share praise for one Republican, however – one who has been lobbing similar criticisms at her own party.

‘Look, I don’t agree with anything that Liz Cheney believes about the substantive issues,’ Biden said.

‘But I admire the hell out of her. She means what she says. She doesn’t support the notion of use of violence…She insists that there are basic, fundamental rules.’

Since losing her Wyoming Republican primary to a Trump-backed challenger in August, Cheney has ratcheted up the rhetoric that earned her scorn from the GOP in the first place.

During her own Sunday television interview, Cheney criticized Republican Leaders Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell for not holding Trump accountable for the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

‘My view from the beginning has been, you know, we have to, as a party, reject insurrection; we have to reject what he stands for,’ Cheney said.

Biden said he 'admired' outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney despite not agreeing with her ideologically

Biden said he ‘admired’ outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney despite not agreeing with her ideologically

‘I don’t think this is an issue about which you can make a political calculation. I think it matters too much.’

Biden suggested during his sit-down that more Republicans like Cheney aren’t running for office because they’re afraid of the heightened threat environment.

Asked if democracy could ‘survive’ a GOP governing majority, the president said: ‘I think that if we allow the Republican Party to continue to metastasize into what minority of what the party as a whole is.’

‘Look, I think one of the reasons there’s not more mainstream conservative Republicans running out there is because they are so concerned about- not only their physical wellbeing, but also the notion that how can they win when a minority of Republicans are showing up to vote and they’re really hard-edge?’ the president posed.

He also took a shot at Trump during the interview, calling him ‘a leader who concluded that the truth didn’t matter a whole lot’ and accused him of using ‘modern’ race-baiting tactics to further divide Americans. 

Biden added that Trump believes ‘whatever it takes to have power, it is appropriate.’ 





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