I don’t think that’s true. It’s a decent sized portion, but the largest chunk seems to be aware that Biden’s the best bet, but needs him to seriously up his game. 2 cents.
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Castro, to Gonzalez: “Are you forgetting what you said who you endorsed two minutes ago? Are you forgetting already what you said who you endorsed just two minutes ago?”
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There you go again…
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Well, if you want another four years of Bloatus then I’m certain that you’ll stay at home, pout and sit on your hands come election day.
Won’t you?
Uncertain how large the contingent is but they’re certainly the noisiest. Reminiscent of 2016 isn’t it?
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Bill Maher’s crew pointed that out The candidates are now running their platforms on the Twitterverse response.
Not a meaningful demographic
A lot of nasty stupid people ( SEE:Trump, Donald)
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Looks like a soccer player on the ground trying to draw the ref’s attention to a foul.
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I would go a step farther: despising heavy Twitter users may be the last bipartisan sentiment in America
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Not sorry to see Castro take a hit, whether this was intended or implied. Castro’s hit on Biden seemed somewhere between juvenile and sleazy. And will be hard to forget, as was Harris’ attack on Biden. She lost me at that moment.
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Castro looked like someone trying to rob a bank with their hand in their pocket. Once you telegraph desperation it is time to go.
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VgThis is intricate. One of the things many of us hold against Sanders is that he falsely attacked Hillary’s character in ways that made it less likely for her to prevail in the general because he – ably seconded by Russian trolls --was rendering her toxic to a small but significant portion of his young followers.
When Castro attacked Biden’s ability to remember what Biden had just said, he committed a similar political sin of risking damage to a probable general election candidate.
The gravest fear is that possibly Biden couldn’t remember. That’s not what happened – both men seemed to be talking past each other – Biden insisting correctly that he said that people unable to afford coverage would be automatically enrolled and Castro referring to an earlier statement that certain classes of people would be able to buy in. Castro was very sure of his position because he has a phenomenal grasp of the detailed provisions of legislation and had undoubtedly studied Biden’s proposal for weaknesses. In this case studies suggested that that buy in proposal would lead to ten million people.
It is interesting that the MSM came rushing to Biden’s defense – looking only at the more recent portion of Biden’s remarks referencing the automatic enrollment of some poorer people and missing the earlier reference to those who would have to buy in if they wanted in. This lead them to incorrectly label Castro as the one having memory problems.
Castro is an effective and combative debater. He argues that he was not deliberately accusing Biden of memory problems but simply trying to get Biden to fess up to the fact that Biden’s plan required a buy in for certain people which indeed Biden had just recently stated himself. You may believe him or not but I’m pretty sure that Castro would have said the same thing had he been debating Klobuchar and the same point had come up in the same way.
Edited for clarity.
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Night of the Long Lives already…
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Rep. Gonzalez will have to change again. Neither Castro nor Biden will be the nominee.
This doesn’t seem like party unity so much as a 2016-style attempt by this particular politician at engendering a stitch-up. Dumb, dumb move.
Well, I didn’t hear it that way at all. Castro used the insider wonky distinction between op-in and opt-out programs. There’s not one person in a million who would understand the distinction or even care, because either way the program benefits are available.
But if you want to get wonky, Biden’s statement that you automatically get the Medicare-type coverage if you lose your job or live in a state that hasn’t expanded Medicaid under Obamacare is neither opt-in nor op-out. It is automatic coverage.
Castro either didn’t understand that or, more likely, some twenty-something staffer served up this gotcha-moment. Castro should fire that staffer for incompetence, although it was Castro’s incompetence that shone through.
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You may well be right.
I think you’re right so why not Harris. I know I’m voting for her in the CA primary in March.
Her confrontational criticism of President Trump appeals to progressives, as does her relative freshness. Instead of being yet another aging white Baby Boomer, she’s a multiracial woman who’s younger than Obama.
At the same time, her résumé defies some of the caricatures that Republicans use to make swing voters suspicious of Democrats. She is a tough former prosecutor. She was an executive who oversaw thousands of employees.
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Go to a casino. Watch people on their cellphones. Watch people respond to money.
We are all subject to and controlled by operant or classical conditioning. If you think you are not, you are doubtless missing a lot of important components of your own conditioned behavior.
True, but I recall that the brief time of Rubio’s insult comic act against Trump was the only time when the cable channels covered his campaign events in an extended way. The Rs opposing Trump were in a no-win situation when it came to trying to break through.
Divisive unsubstantiated BS.
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So what is it about Biden’s plan that leaves ten million uncovered?