Joe Biden and his allies are seizing on the left's crushing defeat in the UK as proof that only a centrist can beat Trump

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• Centrist Democrats will argue that the routing of the Labour Party in Britain's general election shows only someone like Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg can beat President Donald Trump in 2020. 
• "Look what happens when the Labour party moves so, so far to the left," Biden said on Thursday as the British election results became clear.
• Backers of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren will point to distinct local factors that shaped the election result in the UK, most significantly Brexit.
• Progressives have also argued that Hillary Clinton's lackluster performance in 2016 in traditional Democrat states means that they need something more radical.
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As news came in of the crushing defeat Thursday of Jeremy Corbyn's hard left Labour Party in the UK elections, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden sought to draw a lesson for his own party in their quest to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. 

"Boris Johnson is winning in a walk," he told journalists at a California fundraiser, according to a pool report, as results showed the British Prime Minister cruising to an historic victory. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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