Biden Says “Six to Eight Months” Before the GOP Turnaround.

Republicans and the Biden administration are already prepared to fail.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readDec 15, 2020

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After infamously telling a room full of his high dollar Wall Street donors that nothing would fundamentally change under his leadership, the Republican party unsurprisingly is more than willing to help President-Elect Joe Biden fulfill his promise. As the Electoral college prepared to solidify Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Epstein wrote in a thread on Twitter:

“Biden says that 7 Senate Republicans, “mostly senior,” have called him tonight. He spoke to “one of the most senior members” who expressed a willingness to work on China and infrastructure. It’s going to take 6–8 months but GOP will work w him, “you’re going to be surprised.” Biden recounted a call he had tonight w “one of the most senior members” of Senate GOP. “Joe, we’ve always been able to work together and there’s a lot we can work on” was the msg from this lawmaker, who said he’s willing to work w Biden on China, covid, health & infrastructure. “I predict to you, and I may eat these words, I predict you as Donald Trump’s shadow fades away, you’re going to see an awful lot of change,” Biden said as he reflected tonight on outreach from Senate Republicans. “I know I’ve been criticized heavily for saying from…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Dialogue & Discourse

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