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Wednesday 4 december 2019

Jill Biden: Voters 'disgusted' Trump enlisted foreign help

By BILL BARROW Biden said, she's convinced
Associated Press they fall squarely in Joe
PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) Biden's political wheel-
— Jill Biden said Tuesday house.
that campaigning on her "This election is a referen-
husband's behalf has con- dum on character, and I
vinced her that most Amer- think people know Joe that
icans are "disgusted" with way ... they know what kind
President Donald Trump of man he is," she said. "I
and his effort to enlist Ukrai- think they admire Joe, and
nian help in discrediting her they want a president they
family. can feel proud of. Joe is
"People know who Donald that person."
Trump is," Jill Biden said in Separately, she also dis-
an interview, adding that missed concerns about
Trump is offering voters a whether her 77-year-old
"distraction" with his accu- husband is up for the job,
sations that the Bidens en- and she expressed frustra-
gaged in corrupt dealings tions over the spotlight on
when son Hunter Biden ac- his verbal fumbles, noting
cepted a lucrative position that she'd just finished a
with a Ukrainian energy firm speech in which she had to
while his father handled correct herself after refer-
U.S.-Ukraine relations as Jill Biden speaks after her husband Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe ring to "the NEA" -- the Na-
vice president. Biden during a bus tour stop, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Mason City, Iowa. tional Education Associa-
"They know it's a lie," Jill Associated Press tion -- instead of "the NRA,"
Biden told The Associated the National Rifle Associa-
Press as she finished four gusted by that. They don't mom coming up and giv- judgment" when he ac- tion.
days of campaigning with want foreign interference ing you a hug and saying, cepted a position on a for- "You're saying your speech
her husband, Joe Biden, in our elections." 'Honey, I love you and it's eign energy board in one over and over again," she
and on her own in the first Of course, that doesn't going to be OK.' His name is of the world's geopolitical said. "On one of my stops
caucus state of Iowa. mean the 2020 spotlight out there day after day af- hotspots, but he has de- today, a woman was talk-
"It's pretty disgusting, as is easy for Hunter, she ac- ter day, with Trump pound- nied any wrongdoing, and ing about how she can't af-
a matter of fact, that our knowledged. ing and pounding and Ukrainian officials have said ford her insulin, her pump.
president has invited other "I see Hunter. I know how pounding. So, you know, they found nothing untow- They're worried about real
countries to get involved he's doing. I'm his mother," I'm a mom. I'm his mom." ard. problems or how to put
in our elections," Jill Biden Jill Biden, 68, said. "There's Hunter Biden, 49, has ad- However difficult the dy- food on the table or how to
said. "People are pretty dis- nothing better than your mitted exercising "poor namics are personally, Jill send their kids to college.q

Texas lawmaker ends campaign

over 'Asian' candidate remarks

they're Asian dropped his an Asian to win." Miller after the interview
reelection bid Tuesday fol- "And that's kind of racist was published. Hours later,
lowing a backlash that in- in my mind, but anyway, Miller released a statement
cluded losing the endorse- that's not necessary, at to the newspaper and oth-
ment of the state's GOP least not yet," Miller told the er outlets saying he would
governor. newspaper. abandon his reelection bid
State Rep. Rick Miller since He went on to suggest that and described his remarks
2013 has represented a a second challenger, Leon- as "insensitive and inexcus-
suburban Houston district ard Chan, had similar moti- able."
in Fort Bend County, one of vations. "My comments were not
In a Monday, June 17, 2019, photo, state Rep. Rick Miller, R-Sugar the most diverse counites in "I don't know, I never met made with malice nor do
Land, stands at a news conference celebrating progress on the the U.S. He told the Houston the guy. I have no idea who they reflect who I am or
Sugar Land 95 Memorial Project in Sugar Land, Texas. Chronicle that one of his he is," Miller said of Chan. who I strive to be," he said.
Associated Press primary opponents, Jacey "He has not been around Chan and Jetton told the
Jetton, was running against Republican channels at all, newspaper that the re-
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A his political rivals on the him in 2020 "because he but he's an Asian." marks show why the subur-
white Texas Republican ballot were motivated to is an Asian" and decided Gov. Greg Abbott with- ban Houston district needs
lawmaker who suggested run against him because "that my district might need drew his endorsement of a change.q