I would say that his chances of winning the nomination are as good as anyone who is already in the race. I hope he gets in.
Heās also been in touch with a doctor who claims to be able to take 20-30 years off your age with just three treatments.
āAmong those heās reached out to: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), both of whom have encouraged him to run publicly.ā
Are there others encouraging him to run privately? I hope not, because that would be a sucky strategy.
Every person with the last name Bank.
(After all, corporations are people, my friendā¦)
Why not reach out to the people instead of these out of touch senators. Of course they would want one of ātheir ownā to run.
Joe Biden has a right to run if he wants to - it will be democratic voters that will decide the eventual nominee. And the variety of perspectives and interchange of ideas between the various candidates will help the Democratic Party develop and hone itās platform for 2020.
And I believe Joe Biden, unlike some past candidates for the Democratic nomination for President, will be willing to get behind and actively support the Democratic nominee in the general election.
Heād should be a good president, but I hope heās ready to have all his touching and hugging dragged out and claimed to be inappropriate and there are probably many more to come. All by folks that do the same and worse and claim they donāt, or just ignore it.
Say it aināt so Joe.
Love ya!
Better to get in and try rather than not try and regret as in 2016
Unlike his past attempts, things start a lot earlier now, so Itās likely he doesnāt make to to Primary season.
It wasnāt this guy, was it?
I donāt see Biden winning the primary. His strength is his name recognition and the partyās warm feeling as Obamaās VP. He is not on the forefront of the partyās current trajectory.
I think because we all love Joe, he would do well enough in early primaries to stay in for a while. This is problematic because it would dilute delegates early in the contests and probably hurt a newer candidate thatās less leaning left.
Iād myself think embracing more ambitious agenda and prefer someone going all in on MFA etcā¦ but I want that to be the partyās choice and the primary can do that but Iād like to not have one side or the other start with a disadvantage because their side of the field was crowded and the other wasnātā¦making for lopsided delegate yield in early primaries
I think a clean break from previous administrations will allow the party to work out its center-left vs left trajectory without a loyalty influence and weād be better off.
That said Joe would make a fine presidentā¦
LOL, yep, heās too old. His time was 2016 but I can understand why he didnāt run then.
Joe is too old to be a member of the baby boom. Iām a baby boomer and Iām too old to run for President.
Not that I wouldnāt be the bestest ever!
Say what you will about Joe Biden (and many will) at least he is āauthenticā.
What you see is what you get, āgaffesā and all.
I hope he doesnāt run, as I donāt think his heart is really "in itā and whomever becomes the nominee needs to be passionate about the task.
Either way, the more the merrier. Let the Primary Voters decide. That is why we have primaries.
Just go, Joe. Why donāt you find some nice young firebrand to support? I donāt think this is what the dem. party needs right now. New blood is needed. We donāt need to rehash the dem. politics of the last quarter century. Iāll say this as well, if people want change, the monster now in office appealed to people desire for change. I donāt see Biden as an effective candidate for new ideas.
Hopefully Donald and Pence will get ousted, Nancy will take over and weāll have a nice transition to another democrat or just Nancy carry on! Hey a former Obama voter can have Hope canāt he.
Biden will be a strong candidate. Among moderate to conservative Dems he is a strong favorite. I do think that Brown and Klobuchar represent big threats to him among that group of voters. Harris and Beto are the two Dems who have the broadest appeal to all groups of Dems. Harris, because of her background as a pragmatic AG, is going to have strong appeal to moderates and conservative Dems too. Beto, if he runs the way he voted in Congress, can have a strong appeal as well. Therefore, Biden will have to run a strong race to keep his initial advantages. I think theyāre all capable candidates. Another thing going for Biden is that Trumpās daily gaffe fest makes Joeās gaffes seem less bothersome.
Thereās a lot about Bidenās foreign policy and trade policy that I support and what I think is needed to reverse Trumpism and preserve American prosperity for future generations.
Electorally speaking, I see that Trump has lost a critical mass of WWC voters. If we get a good candidate, theyāre not going back to Trump. Biden can argue that he is perfectly positioned to get those voters instantly in places like PA, WI, MI, FL, whereas the other candidates will have to work harder to get them. Electability and restoring sanity to American govāt and foreign policy are his strongest suits.
His weaknesses: age, his ability to grasp the stakes, pandering to the myth of a bipartisan middle, and his past voting record.
Heād be good if he picked a young, ambitious VP (Harris, Klobuchar) and said heās in it for four years to straighten out the piles of shit left behind by the Russian flavored griftopians and then retiring.
āIām running to get us back on the right path and then passing the baton to the next generation.ā
At this point I just want a solid Dem who can WIN and Iāll worry about purity tests in 2024.