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> Biden calls out Trump on immigration remarks
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> Biden calls out Trump on immigration remarks
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> The vice president says Trump is offering a "sick message."
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> By Sarah Wheaton <http://www.politico.com/staff/sarah-wheaton>
> 09/15/15, 08:25 PM EDT
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> Updated 09/15/15, 10:28 PM EDT
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> Vice President Joe Biden directly called out Donald Trump at a gathering of Hispanic activists on Tuesday evening.
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> The White House has generally avoiding singling out Republican candidates, with the president himself limiting his criticism to their language and proposals in a general way. But at a reception honoring Hispanic Heritage Month at his home at the Naval Observatory, Biden went after Trump by name, calling his remarks about Mexican immigrants a “sick message.”
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> Biden offered no updates on his own presidential deliberations. But he did accuse Republicans of “xenophobia” and told the crowd not to take “Trump and the stuff you’re hearing on the other team” to heart.
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> “Folks, this will not prevail,” he said. “This will not prevail.”
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> It was the vice president once again moseying to the president’s rhetorical line — and then striding right on past it.
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> In Des Moines on Monday, President Barack Obama said, “this whole anti-immigrant sentiment that’s out there in our politics right now is contrary to who we are.”
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> But his press secretary Josh Earnest, who has also avoided the 2016 fray, went out of his way to clarify on Tuesday that the president was talking about “the rhetoric that is used by an alarming number of Republican candidates.”
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> So that makes Biden the most direct Trump antagonist in the White House. His guests on Tuesday were ready to see him take it to the trail.
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> “Run, Joe Run!” they chanted.
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> Sarah Wheaton is a White House reporter for Politico.
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