Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren reportedly stated on Saturday that she doesn’t consider Vice President Mike Pence a decent man.
“I’m sorry. I followed Pence’s history on LGBTQ Americans, and I don’t think that is a decent position,” Warren said.
Asked if she thinks Pence is a “decent” man, Warren said “no.”
According to CNN, the Massachusetts senator, who launched her 2020 presidential campaign earlier this year, made her opinions known just days after former Vice President Joe Biden faced scrutiny for calling Pence a “decent guy.”
Biden made the comments in reference to Pence at a Forum in Global Leadership at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on Thursday.
However, he quickly was faced with a backlash from actress and former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon asking Biden to “consider how this falls on the ears of our community.”
Biden, who is considering a 2020 run for president, later clarified that there was “nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President.”
“You’re right, Cynthia. I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage,” said Biden.
Pence, who served as Indiana governor from 2013-2017, has faced criticism in the past from the LGBTQ community for legislation he has supported. In 2015, he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a bill that some viewed as anti-LGBTQ.
Warren added on Saturday that President Donald Trump’s White House is “the most corrupt administration in living memory” when asked if there were any decent figures inside it.
“It’s a tough question,” Warren said. “The Mueller investigation has already produced 34 indictments or guilty pleas out of people in the president’s inner circle. 10 cabinet officials have left, 4 with huge scandals and others with threat of scandal at the door. This is the most corrupt administration in living memory. That’s why we gotta be in the fight.”
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