Joe Biden: 'America was an idea' we have 'never lived up to'

Biden declared in a new interview that the United States of America “was an idea” that “we’ve never lived up to.”.

“I think it’s important we teach history, not in a prescriptive way, from my perspective, but what actually the facts were, without also acknowledging that there’s 400 years of racism in the United States of America.

“I don’t think he understands what happened in 1776,” Mr.

‘We hold these truths to be self evident.’ We’ve never lived up to it, but we’ve never walked away from it before.

Acknowledge our mistakes so we don’t repeat them.”

“Joe Biden’s closing argument is that America has always been a disappointment,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh tweeted

Our nation is filled with strong, innovative and hard-working individuals who love this nation & don’t want to fundamentally transform it,” Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp tweeted

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