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Chris Cuomo says some have said Biden is out of step with the current Democratic lingo and is the wrong candidate for the time. Biden responds: “I think I’m more in step with the lingo than any of them,” noting he was asked to campaign extensively for Dems in the midterms. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says he meant it when he said he’d work to cure cancer. “We are devoted to that notion,” he tells CNN, bringing up his idea for a big medical research initiative. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Biden, by the way, says he’s been most surprised by the “intensity” of the attacks in the Dem primary so far. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jill Biden in CNN interview with her husband conducted on July 4: “The biggest surprise I think was the debate. I think, you know, probably Kamala was a little bit of a surprise. I think that was the biggest surprise so far.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@momofink I don’t know the name of the player with the Prada shopping bag but that’s me — PolitiTweet.org

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In his response, Biden says mental health is "the single most consequential thing." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says people are surprised to see him run (maybe a reference to his July 4 parade jog) and invokes a saying he attributes to Satchel Paige, “how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” His answer: “I’m 50.” (He’s 76.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Felicia Sanders, a survivor of the Mother Emanuel shooting, asks Biden about getting help with mental health issues including PTSD. "I lived with it, my granddaughter lived with it. I'm trying to find help, it's very hard," she says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden reveals that he still has his staff do something they did for them as VP: put an updated total of deaths and injuries in the war on terror on his daily schedule. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Doctors let you live, nurses make you want to live," Biden says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden takes the stage in Charleston https://t.co/L830sl6fov — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden town hall drew 450 in the main room and 320 in overflow, per @KimpsonForSC's chief of staff. One of the biggest crowds Biden's had in an early primary state. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kimpson, who has not endorsed and plans to hold more town halls with candidates, also says: "Do not fall prey to anyone's attempt to manufacture a fight to drive media attention or to save a failing campaign." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden compares Trump getting elected to someone playing a shell game and knowing they've "been had." After one term of Trump, "the American public has been had, they've been had" and Dems have to make that case in D-to-R states Trump won. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KimpsonForSC Kimpson also said "we cannot fall prey to anyone's attempt to manufacture a fight" within the Democratic party. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Fritz used to always kid me about" being the poorest member of the Senate, Biden says in his first mention of the day of the late South Carolina Senator Hollings — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden: "I find it really refreshing to talk about the future." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I do not find it useful to relitigate issues from 1950 or 50 years ago or 25 years ago. I have very little particular use for that kind of analysis," @kimpsonforsc says in Biden intro. "We've spent far too much time talking about the past" and it's time to talk about the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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Moderator @justmarge at Biden town hall in Charleston says it should be a “party” and a “great conversation not about the past but about the future of our country.” — PolitiTweet.org

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.@joncoopertweets told me for a story that ran on Monday that Biden should do a big speech addressing controversies around his civil rights record. On Saturday, Biden did just that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden was asked by @katieglueck about voters who after the first debate might be worried about his ability to beat Trump. HIs response: "Not the polls I've seen today." (He's presumably referring to the ABC/Post poll with matchups versus Trump https://t.co/8aFDgW6Men) — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden was asked for his message to black women after skipping Essence Fest: "Everything I've said all along. Take a look, see what I stand for and what I stand for is everything about promoting women generally and black women in particular. And it's everything about my career." — PolitiTweet.org

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And/but Biden was in SC two weekends ago, a couple days after his comments on the segregationist senators, and explicitly did not apologize then & leaned on black leaders who said he did not need to apologize. https://t.co/QkS2EyHixA — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says he apologized for his segregationist comments yesterday because it was “the first opportunity I had to do it in a fulsome way" with "an audience that in fact would be the most likely to have been offended by what was said." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden says that his opponents for the Democratic nomination think it’s “old school” to talk about compromise but he disagrees. “Compromise is not a dirty word” and you can keep your principles while compromising. — PolitiTweet.org

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Former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, a longtime Biden friend, endorses Biden over lunch at @butcherandbee. “Joe Biden will defeat Donald Trump,” he says. https://t.co/ReOeufWjGo — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tylerpager: In South Carolina, @KamalaHarris responded to Biden’s apology, saying “there is still a point of disagreement” between the… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattNegrin Barbara does not understand why her name is being used like this — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahmucha: A reverend thanked Biden for apologizing yesterday. "God, if you would just allow me to say these few words. We want to tha… — PolitiTweet.org

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This after King tried to get Obama to weigh in on the 2020 Democrats and Obama reiterated that she and her husband are staying out of the primary and will support the nominee. — PolitiTweet.org