Biden talks about ‘nasty’ US campaign during Mideast tour

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that not even Ronald Reagan could win this year’s Republican presidential nomination, as he lamented America’s “petty, venal and mean” politics while addressing an Arab audience in a Gulf emirate ruled by sheikhs.
Biden, a Democrat, said self-interested lawmakers had redrawn congressional districts to the point “where the Lord Almighty could not defeat a Republican,” which he s