On Wednesday, for the first time ever, I looked forward to hearing Kamala Harris speak — and it's not a coincidence that the reason was that it was her concession speech. On Thursday, I also got to look forward to Joe Biden's remarks reacting to Trump's victory. It was not lost on me how happy he looked. And apparently, lots of people noticed as well.
Trust me, he's happy. I've never believed he wanted Kamala to win, and you could see it in his face.
"Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I assured him that I directed my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition," Biden said, echoing what Harris said a day earlier.
He tried a little comedy as well, complimenting Kamala on her campaign. "Yesterday, I also spoke with Vice President Harris. She's been a partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring campaign, and everyone got to see something that I learned early on to respect so much: her character. She has a backbone like a ramrod."
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I feel like he could have used a different word. And guess what? And by the way, the fact of the matter is of all the things he said, one thing really stuck out to me.
"Much of the work we've done is already being felt by the American people," he claimed. "But the vast majority of it will ... be felt over the next 10 years. We have a... we-we have legislation we passed, it's just only now just really kicking in."
Biden: If the economy recovers over the next few years, it's my policies working: pic.twitter.com/OzkxQDQNDS
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This is hardly the first time someone has tried to take credit for a Trump recovery. Barack Obama spent weeks on the campaign trail for Harris telling people that Trump didn't create a great economy and that Trump inherited a great economy from him.
"The reason that some people think ... 'I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good,'" Obama claimed at a rally a few weeks ago. "Yeah, it was pretty good, because it was my economy. We had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him."
If that were true, Hillary Clinton would have won. We all remember the Obama years, and they were not great. It was the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
"It wasn't something he did," he continued. "I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time," he claimed, forgetting the fact that the economy he inherited was the result of a global recession that was not caused by domestic U.S. policy. "He didn't do nothing," Obama said so eloquently, "except those big tax cuts."
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So remember this moment, because Trump has been elected to clean up the mess that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made, and when he does, Biden is going to claim that the recovery is thanks to him and his policies. And you can bet that's what Democrats and the media will say as well.
