Is Joe Biden trying to lose?
It’s hard to come to any other conclusion.
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire this weekend, he suggested that coal miners should learn to become computer programmers. This sort of talk does not sit well with working people.
The Daily Caller reports:
Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code
Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Biden’s adversarial posture toward the coal industry bears similarities to that of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who said her administration would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Dave Weigel of the Washington Post broke the story on Twitter:
Back on trail w this Biden event in Derry, NH. Opens by talking about losing Beau, finishes by saying "if anyone" should be angry at Republicans, it should be him, but it's a POTUS's job to heal.
"I refuse to accept the notion that we'll be in perpetual war with Republicans."
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2019
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Biden riffing on how Obama put him in charge of judging the "jobs of the future" suggests re-training miners as coders.
"Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well."
This sort of "just transition" stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016…
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2019
But Biden returns to the same point: "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake!"
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2019
He is such a terrible campaigner.
LOL Biden literally just told coal miners to "learn to code." https://t.co/owCZFNQVim
— Christmasoteric (@EsotericCD) December 30, 2019
Omg hahahah “No Malarky, Learn To Code” is his campaign slogan
— Koondey (@Koondey1) December 30, 2019
Can you even imagine how this would go over in Pennsylvania?
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