(Brian Snyder/Reuters)Joe Biden’s presidential campaign lifted language without credit, at times word for word, when crafting its education and climate plans, incidents the campaign acknowledged and said were inadvertent. The incidents appeared to be staff errors when detailing Biden’s policies, and they underscored how hastily his campaign was attempting to put out specific proposals. In the case of his education policy, Biden used a sentence word for word from an education policy publication from the group XQ Institute. The institute did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and the Biden campaign declined a request for comment on the education policy passage. Nelson found the phrases were a near-identical match with wording used by the Carbon Capture Coalition, whose members include Shell, Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2019 00:22 UTC