Biden claims five GOP senators told him they'd vote alongside Democrats but ...

President Joe Biden claimed five Republican senators have told him they'd vote alongside Democrats on various bills, but expressed fear former President Donald Trump would unleash a primary challenger if they stepped out of line.

'I've had five Republican senators talk to me, bump in to me ... or sit with me. Who have told me that they agree with whatever I'm talking about for them to do. "But Joe, if I do it I'm getting defeated in a primary,"' Biden said Wednesday at a press conference marking the end of his first year in office. 'We've gotta break that, it's gotta change.'

Biden marveled at the grip Trump still had on the party. 

'Did you ever think that one men out of office could intimidate an entire party where they're unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken for fear of being defeated in a primary?' the president asked the reporters in the room rhetorically.   

At the top of the presser, Biden said one thing he didn't expect in his first year was for Republicans to be so unsupportive. 

'I did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most imporant thing was that President Biden didn't get anything done,' the president said. 

'Think about this. What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they're for,' the president continued. 

He asked the same thing about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, though said he personally liked his former Senate colleague.

'I get on with Mitch, I actually like Mitch McConnell, but he has one straightforward objective - make sure that there's nothing that I do that makes me look good in the mind, his mind, with the public at large,' Biden said. 'And that's OK, I'm a big boy.' 

'I think the fundamental question is what is Mitch for?' Biden asked. 

When asked to ID the Republicans who

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