Former Vice President Joe Biden has been accused several times of plagiarism, including with the climate change plan he unveiled Tuesday, and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that points to questions about his integrity.
"He has been plagiarizing longer than I have been alive," McDaniel told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "It started at law school in Syracuse, in his failed 1980s presidential campaign, now we're back at it."
Biden's campaign Tuesday amended his plan hours after it was released after it was pointed out a handful of passages did not credit sources used for the proposal, including from policy papers and statements written by outside groups.
"Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document," the campaign said in a statement.
"This is somebody who has been accused multiple times," McDaniel said. "You would think he would dot the Is, cross the Ts, take more care this doesn't happen during the presidential campaign. Even more frightening are the policies he is proposing, setting the economy back."
McDaniel also commented Biden is "lurching left" in order to win the nomination of the "progressive left, radical Democrat Party they have become," and his move will hurt him in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
"He is saying 'let's get rid of fossil fuels. Let's get rid of tax cuts that spurred our economic growth' . . . he is doing this to pivot to win the nomination," McDaniel said. "I think in the long term it is bad for him."
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