Joe Biden may be the last Democrat in America who still has faith in the Republican party

The president believes.

On Tuesday, at an event in Virginia Beach, Joe Biden affirmed one of his fundamental beliefs about our politics.

“There's an awful lot of really good Republicans, but the MAGA Republicans are a different breed of cat,” Biden told the crowd. “Now, they're not bad or good or just very they're very different. There's kind of like, in my view, sort of two Republican parties. And I've served a long time.”

Biden — from his time as a presidential candidate in 2020 through his first two full years in office — has repeatedly expressed a similar sentiment.

In his 2023 State of the Union speech, Biden said this:

You know, we’re often told that Democrats and Republicans can’t work together.

But over these past two years, we proved the cynics and the naysayers wrong.

Yes, we disagreed plenty. And yes, there were times when Democrats had to go it alone.

But time and again, Democrats and Republicans came together.

And in his remarks directly after the 2022 election, Biden said this:

As I have throughout my career, I’m going to continue to work across the aisle to deliver for the American people.  And it’s not always easy, but we did it the first term…Regardless — regardless of what the final tally in these elections show — and there’s still some counting going on — I’m prepared to work with my Republican colleagues.

As far back as 2019 — while on the campaign trail —Biden was sounding the same message.

“There’s an awful lot of really good Republicans out there,” he said at a fundraiser in Massachusetts. “I get in trouble for saying that with Democrats, but the truth of the matter is, every time we ever got in trouble with our administration, remember who got sent up to Capitol Hill to fix it? Me. Because they know I respect the other team.”