Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread v2

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https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1141548857245020160

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1141551767433482240

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https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1141691732280655873

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1141722705038905348

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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1142474829842436096

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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1143120135038865408

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1143143246081724416

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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1143241647641235456

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https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1144823742356475904

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1148975665468694529

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Read the tweet from an "Independant" journalist, please.

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1149032858553470976

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Bizarre !!!

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1149415755789885442

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Biden leads Democrats as minorities favor most electable candidate versus Trump: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Joe Biden maintained his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination as minorities gravitated toward the former vice president and his top rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in search of the safest bets for beating President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The Aug. 1-5 public opinion poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 22% of Democrats and independents would vote for Biden, a level that is unchanged from a similar poll that ran last month. Another 18% said they supported Sanders, up 2 percentage points from the July poll.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/biden-leads-democrats-as-minorities-favor-most-electable-candidate-versus-trump-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1UW0Z9

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Biden Has the Right Strategy

A lot of Democrats worry about nominating Joe Biden for president. Part of it is that the former vice president is old and gaffe-prone. But much of it is that he seems timid and boring. Biden doesn’t support the “Medicare for All” bill in Congress. He doesn’t support repealing the law that makes unauthorized immigration a criminal offense. Instead, he talks about bipartisanship, decency, the middle class, and the glory days of the Obama-Biden administration. He thinks he can beat President Donald Trump not with a bold, progressive agenda, but by appealing to moderates and Republicans who don’t like Trump.

There’s a good chance he’s correct. Even if Biden is the wrong candidate, he has the right strategy.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/biden-centrist-campaign-strategy.html

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https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1161983152996458496

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https://twitter.com/Civiqs/status/1164635425324990464

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It’s been a pretty ugly summer. He still leads.
There was a comical moment earlier this week in which it looked like voters might actually be turning on Joe Biden. A national poll from Monmouth University, a quality pollster, showed Biden falling to 19 percent from his usual perch in the low 30s, trailing Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, each at 20 percent. Over the next couple of days, however, a slew of other national polls came out showing Biden still in the low 30s, prompting Monmouth to issue a statement acknowledging that its survey was a foul ball. Those few hours after the Monmouth poll was released, though, were quite a time to be alive. What if a summer of bad debates, stammering, “gaffes,” and general questions about Biden’s cognitive fitness really were catching up to him? What if the words Biden and electable really had been divorced in the collective mindset of the Democratic primary voter? Was seeing Biden refer to New Hampshire, the very famous and well-known first primary state, as VERMONT the final straw? Nope. Biden’s doing just fine in the polls. He’s still the leader. One season down, a couple more to go.l

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/biden-warren-debates-gillibrand-steyer-gabbard-trump.html

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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1170376178915393537

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Joe Biden’s appeal actually isn’t a mystery

None of the complaints from the Twitter-verse nor the eyerolling over gaffes has punctured former vice president Joe Biden’s support in the Democratic presidential primary. As Ryan Lizza aptly puts it, “This is the central paradox of Biden’s run: He’s been amazingly durable. But he gets no respect from the people who make conventional wisdom on the left.” Real voters who have known him for decades don’t care about the gaffes or even his age. (Efforts to paint Biden as two steps from senility wind up offending the older voters whose loyalty he enjoys.) His popularity endures after months of unrelenting bashing on social media.

The media put emphasis on moments — a debate, a gaffe — which those following the race sporadically wave off as noise. Lifelong Democratic voters don’t need to listen to the media; they know who Biden is. (Warning to President Trump: Voters have deep affection for Biden and deep animosity toward the president, so attacking Biden in personal terms may well backfire spectacularly.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/11/biden-dilemma/

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Biden delivers most significant speech yet on race, says silence on hate 'is complicity'

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday made his most expansive speech yet on race, calling on the nation to live up to its founding ideals and saying that silence on racism amounts to complicity.

"There can be no realization of the American Dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery," Biden told churchgoers in Alabama while delivering the keynote address at services marking the 56th anniversary of the deadly bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-delivers-expansive-speech-race-says-silence-hate-complicity-n1054601

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https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1173593095016984578

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Is it time for a Biden Panic ?

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https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1176075010051645440

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Trump is doing Biden a big favor

Reports of former Vice President Joe Biden's political demise have been greatly exaggerated. So says a new national poll taken by CNN. Instead of losing ground, Biden has again separated himself from the field with a substantial lead over his nearest rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

Polls are an imperfect snapshot of where the race is at any particular moment. They certainly don't predict at this point who will win the nomination and face President Donald Trump next fall. But there is a lot I believe we can learn from this poll.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/opinions/trump-is-doing-biden-a-big-favor-lockhart/index.html

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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1193121108490424321

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https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1194302761283788803

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This is the scenario I'm talking about for the Democratic primaries.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1195119969450762240

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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1195198279019044865