Biden: Five Senators Would Like To Change Their Gun Vote
BY Herschel Smith
11 years, 6 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that “at least five senators” have called him looking for a way to change their votes to support expanded background checks.
Speaking to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas, Biden said the 45 senators who voted to block the background checks deal brokered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) have seen “the bottom fall out” of their approval ratings.
Biden said, as he did Tuesday during a gun violence event at the White House, that he has been fielding calls from senators interested in signing on to some kind of gun control measure. On Friday he offered slightly more specific detail about the number of senators and the difficult path ahead for gun control legislation.
“I’ve had at least five senators call me and say, ‘Can’t we do something about this?’” Biden said. “The calculus has changed, and so we’re in an effort to try to work out how we can provide another opportunity for those who voted no to change their vote. We all know that’s the hardest thing in politics, to change your vote. That’s why we’ve got to get a rationale, another reason why this could be done by changing the specifics of the legislation.”
Biden hasn’t conveyed which senators he’s spoken with or how the background checks bill might be altered.
Just like myth that 90% or more of all Americans wanted the Senate to enact more gun laws, this is the latest make-believe story. The fairy tale du jour is that five Senators want to change their vote on gun control and see “the bottom fall out of their approval ratings.”
Here’s what I think. The court jester is becoming increasingly delusional. There aren’t five Senators who want to change their vote, and Biden never fielded any such phone call.
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