Biden on GOP White House race: It’s a ‘gift from the Lord’

“We’re not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by allowing politicians to insult Muslims”, Obama said in an apparent reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., said Obama told Democrats that “we have to look back on what we have accomplished and appreciate what we’ve done’ to… build the strength to meet the challenges before us”. “As Democrats”, he said, “we believe in science-I know it’s a radical proposition”.

“It is of critical national importance that we accelerate progress towards prevention, treatment, and a cure – to double the rate of progress in the fight against cancer – and put ourselves on a path to achieve in just 5 years research and treatment gains that otherwise might take a decade or more”.

“The president has failed to offer solutions to the priorities of the American people, and it’s left House Democrats in the political wilderness”, he said in an e-mail.

The president also called for action on several issues that have received some bipartisan support, including a debt restructuring option for the struggling island territory of Puerto Rico.

As Republicans campaigning to replace him prepared for their final debate before the Iowa caucuses, President Barack Obama painted the 2016 GOP field as divided, and confidently predicted Democrats would hold the White House in 2016.

To Biden, Democrats simply need to make the case that Republicans do not run on their record because it’s nationally unpopular.

Democrats say a Trump or Cruz candidacy could be a windfall in their uphill battle to regain control of the House, where their numbers are the lowest since the Truman administration in the late 1940s.

Another election-year “gift” for Democrats? And despite what has the potential to be a lively and competitive presidential election, few independent analysts give Democrats a chance to reclaim a majority in the House. Republicans now outnumber them 246-188. A prodigious fundraiser, Pelosi held 205 fundraisers in 35 cities.

President Obama on Thursday urged House Democrats to embrace the accomplishments of his administration, arguing the country is better off than when he took office seven years ago and voters will respond to that message when they head to the polls later this year.