The (Democratic) President-elect: I will never embarrass *Republican* Senators

I hope it's not going to be a weekly ritual for me the next four years to post quotes like this with some form of the commentary, "I don't think this is gonna work. (Eye roll, Deep sigh)"

Rebecca Klar, Biden on working with Senate Republicans: 'I'll never publicly embarrass them' The Hill 12/25/2020:

President-elect Joe Biden expressed optimism that he will be able to work with Republicans because of his years working alongside them, despite a sharply divided Congress.

“My leverage is, every senior Republican knows I’ve never once, ever, misled them,” Biden said on a telephone call Wednesday with several columnists, according to The New York Times. “I’ll never publicly embarrass them.” [my emphasis]

The sad part is, that's not even the biggest groaner in the story:

Asked this week if he is up to the fight with Republicans and members of his own party, Biden told the columnists, “I respectfully suggest that I beat the hell out of everyone else.”

The president-elect noted he topped Trump with more than 7 million votes and won the Democratic presidential nomination, beating several prominent progressives, according to the Times.

“I think I know what I’m doing, and I’ve been pretty damn good at being able to deal with the punchers. I know how to block a straight left and do a right hook. I understand it,” he said. [my emphasis]

Can one of Biden's advisers please explain to him that the left Democrats are the ones he has to depend on to fight for even his most minimalist domestic proposals because they are on the same side as him, i.e., the Demcoratic Party? His own party, the one that he is the official head of?

And that the Republicans are the other party, aka, his opposition? You know, Republicans? The ones out there howling at the moon about how Trump really won the election and that Biden is a ChiCom agent who is protecting a child self-trafficking ring being run out of underground bunkers by Satan-worshippers like George Soros, the Clintons, and Hunter Biden?