'And why should we be surprised? He couldn't stand up to the Taliban:' Chris Christie mocks Biden for folding to the progressive wing of his party
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mocked President Joe Biden for folding to the progressive wing of his party during a panel discussion Sunday on ABC's This Week.
'And why should we be surprised? He couldn't stand up to the Taliban,' Christie charged, getting a stern reaction from Democrat Donna Brazile, who was also seated at the table.
Christie, a Republican who could mount another presidential bid in 2024, proclaimed that the Biden of 2020 - who ran as the moderate answer to progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders - was 'dead and buried.'
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mocked President Joe Biden for folding to the progressive wing of his party during a panel discussion Sunday on ABC's This Week
'And why should we be surprised? He couldn't stand up to the Taliban,' Christie (right) charged, getting a stern reaction from Democrat Donna Brazile (left), who was also seated at the table
'It's the death of 2020 Joe Biden,' Christie said. 'When he went to the Hill, 2020 Joe Biden is now officially dead and buried.'
'The guy who ran against the progressives, ran against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, ran to be a uniter in this country, ran saying he was going to force compromise,' Christie said. 'And he went up to Capitol Hill, and he capitulated to the progressives, the liberals in his party.'
Christie then made his Taliban dig.
'How could we expect him to stand up to AOC?' the New Jersey Republican mused.
He was referencing progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
On Friday, Biden went to Capitol Hill to try to pull together dueling factions of his party.
Moderates were maddened because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi canned a planned Thursday vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package.
Progressives threatened to vote no on the bill - saying they would get to yes once moderates supported a planned $3.5 trillion budget bill as well.
Biden is photographed Sunday leaving a coffee shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden is trying to thread the needle between the moderate and progressives of his party
That bill contains a number of liberal goodies including climate change provisions, universal pre-K, child care assistance, tuition-free community college, paid medical and family leave, the extension of the child tax credit and enhanced Medicare coverage.
Biden reportedly told Democratic lawmakers that the pricetag of that bill may have to come down to closer to $2 trillion.
Moderate Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's slammed the delayed infrastructure vote, calling it 'inexcusable' in a statement Saturday.
Ocasio-Cortez, on the other hand, applauded Biden for being a fair dealer with both sides of the Democratic Party.
'I think that President Biden has been a good faith partner to the entire Democratic Party,' she said on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. 'He is in fact a moderate and we disagree on certain issues. But he reaches out and he actually tries to understand our perspective, and that is why I am fighting for his agenda with the Build Back Better Act.'
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