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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Biden comparing Trump to Herbert Hoover a ‘cheap shot’, descendant says

Herbert Hoover, seen in June 1932.
Herbert Hoover, seen in June 1932. The Biden campaign apologised ‘for any undue pain we caused Herbert Hoover by lumping him in with Donald Trump’. Photograph: Associated Press

Joe Biden is taking a “cheap shot” whenever he gleefully compares Donald Trump to Herbert Hoover, a prominent political commentator said, defending the 31st president whose single term in office coincided with the Great Depression.

“It’s such a cheap shot,” Margaret Hoover, the president’s great-granddaughter and a commentator for CNN and PBS, told Politico. “If a person spent a minute studying Herbert Hoover’s contributions, one would come to see that these political jabs have obscured a shining example of an uncommon public servant.”

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