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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets workers and discusses gun rights as he tours the Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan on March 10, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
'You Wanna Go Outside With Me?' Joe Biden Tries to Fight Union Worker After Disagreement Over Gun Control
The auto-worker accused Biden of plotting to take his guns away.
Mar 10, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told a Detroit union auto-worker on Tuesday as Michiganders went to the polls that the worker was "full of shit" and threatened to fight him.
"You want to go outside with me?" Biden asked the auto-worker during a tense exchange on gun rights in which the former vice president referred to "AR-14s" and asked why anyone would need "100 rounds" in a machine gun.
Watch:
\u201cWATCH: "You\u2019re full of sh*t," @JoeBiden tells a man who accused him of "actively trying to end our Second Amendment right."\n\n"I support the Second Amendment," Biden adds while vising under-construction auto plant in Detroit. @CBSNews\u201d— Bo Erickson CBS (@Bo Erickson CBS) 1583851135
The auto-worker referenced comments he claimed Biden made in a "viral video" that he watched, but it was not exactly clear what he might be referring to.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told a Detroit union auto-worker on Tuesday as Michiganders went to the polls that the worker was "full of shit" and threatened to fight him.
"You want to go outside with me?" Biden asked the auto-worker during a tense exchange on gun rights in which the former vice president referred to "AR-14s" and asked why anyone would need "100 rounds" in a machine gun.
Watch:
\u201cWATCH: "You\u2019re full of sh*t," @JoeBiden tells a man who accused him of "actively trying to end our Second Amendment right."\n\n"I support the Second Amendment," Biden adds while vising under-construction auto plant in Detroit. @CBSNews\u201d— Bo Erickson CBS (@Bo Erickson CBS) 1583851135
The auto-worker referenced comments he claimed Biden made in a "viral video" that he watched, but it was not exactly clear what he might be referring to.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told a Detroit union auto-worker on Tuesday as Michiganders went to the polls that the worker was "full of shit" and threatened to fight him.
"You want to go outside with me?" Biden asked the auto-worker during a tense exchange on gun rights in which the former vice president referred to "AR-14s" and asked why anyone would need "100 rounds" in a machine gun.
Watch:
\u201cWATCH: "You\u2019re full of sh*t," @JoeBiden tells a man who accused him of "actively trying to end our Second Amendment right."\n\n"I support the Second Amendment," Biden adds while vising under-construction auto plant in Detroit. @CBSNews\u201d— Bo Erickson CBS (@Bo Erickson CBS) 1583851135
The auto-worker referenced comments he claimed Biden made in a "viral video" that he watched, but it was not exactly clear what he might be referring to.
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