![]() And then he turned around and walked away.ĬHANG: All right. And as the exchange went on, Biden seemed to get frustrated, and he cut it off by saying, well, you should vote for Trump then. And much more recently, a few weeks ago in South Carolina, I was actually there when an immigration activist challenged Biden on the Obama administration's record on deportation. And this was back when cameras were not recording every single utterance on the campaign trail, so it was notable when a upstart network called C-SPAN got that footage. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship.ĭETROW: Then he goes on to, like, list his transcript, in a way. And a voter asked about that, and here's what Biden said.īIDEN: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. And early on, Biden said that one of the main things that he weighed when deciding to run was the fact that his family would be attacked.ĬHANG: That said, this isn't the first time Joe Biden has confronted a voter, right? I mean, he does have some history.ĭETROW: A pretty long history - in fact, as soon as I saw this, one of the things I was reminded of was a moment during Biden's first run for president way back in 1987.ĭETROW: At the time, there were some questions that Biden had maybe inflated his resume - his academic resume. Biden's other son Beau died recently of brain cancer.ĭETROW. ![]() Hunter Biden has struggled with drug addiction. But then when reporters have asked about Hunter Biden's job on the natural gas company and here with this voter, Biden seems to take it very personally, and that kind of makes sense. When it comes to the broader Trump attack about Biden's official actions, Biden says that every report on this has found that it isn't true, and that's accurate. You know, there's no other way to put it. Is that how he's been responding to this issue all along?ĭETROW: He's often been bristly about it. Then seizing on another comment the voter made about Biden being too old, Biden challenged the man to a push-up contest.ĭETROW: And he made a comment about the man's physical appearance.ĬHANG: OK, so it seems like Biden is not at all eager to deal with Ukraine or even questions about the impeachment process. So the key line from this voter to Biden was that - you were selling access just like he is. This voter said something a lot of Republicans have and will continue to say, and that is if you set aside the debunked Trump attack that Biden was protecting his son Hunter when he pushed for an ouster of a corrupt prosecutor - that's the charge at the center of this whole impeachment inquiry - that it was improper for Hunter Biden to take a job on the board of a big company to begin with in a country where his father was heading U.S. What exactly happened here?ĭETROW: Yeah, so this was a confrontational question at a town hall. ![]() Hey, Scott.ĬHANG: So it's kind of hard to accuse Joe Biden of being too scripted on the campaign trail. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: That's all I got to do - is watch TV.ĬHANG: Sounds like a moment that we will now talk about with NPR's Scott Detrow. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Yeah, (unintelligible). That's not true, and no one has ever said that. Listen to his forceful response when a voter accused Biden of corruption over his son Hunter's work in Ukraine. ![]() Former Vice President Joe Biden did none of those things today at a campaign stop in Iowa. Others will try to win over a detractor or gently correct them. Some will ignore an uncomfortable question. Political candidates have different ways of dealing with people who confront them at campaign events. ![]()
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