Baffled Colbert Wonders Why ‘Old Fashioned’ GOPers Don’t Go for Biden’s ‘Progressive’ Vision

Scott Whitlock | August 19, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] A confused Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night celebrated the Democratic National Convention by wondering why “old fashioned” Republicans don’t embrace the far-left agenda of Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden. Talking to Warren, the Late Show host listened to the Senator list agenda items like cancelling all student loan debt.  A baffled Colbert wondered, “The thing that's interesting to me in the idea of a progressive versus a sort of establishment Democratic fight is that I don't understand why sort of the old-fashioned Republicans don't want to go for this, too, because the thing that you're describing, well, that was center that was middle-of-the-road Republican politics in the 1970s.”

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