Via The Hill:

. . .Roughly 100 people attended the event at a private home in San Francisco’s upscale Seal Cliff neighborhood, paying between $500 and $10,000, according to a transcript of the vice president’s remarks released by the White House.

“This is not your father’s Republican party, it’s fundamentally different,” Biden told the crowd. “There’s no one with whom to deal with and there’s no one in charge anymore.”

 He expressed optimism that Democrats could hold onto the Senate next year and pick up the 17 seats needed to wrest control of the House away from Republicans, whose conservative views, he said, are out of touch with the country.

“America has moved on, well beyond where these guys are,” Biden said about the GOP. “If we keep the Senate and change 17 votes in the House, it’ll be fundamentally different.”