Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread

[Rookie Yinzer]

Yuck. Well I fully plan on dragging him on every social media avenue possible. He’s utter trash.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Biden is a bit of male Hillary, just without all her baggage.

It would be better if he sits this out and let other people do the job and enjoy retirement instead.

Biden is worse than Hillary.

Why folks want to nominate the man that shamed Anita Hill, wrote the Crime Bill, and is on tape groping children is beyond me.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I maintain that Biden will have serious issues once he's a presidential candidate and not a "memory of the Obama years." That's not to say that there aren't Democrats who like him, but I don't see him generating anywhere near the level of enthusiasm that Sanders and some candidate like Harris generate.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I'm getting Jeb! 2016 vibes from Biden

Im getting Biden 1988 and Biden 2008 vibes from Biden

[Rookie Yinzer]

This is Hillary all over again. The early poll facade making him appear electable along with the old establishment wanting to line up behind him. His "experience" is an omen as it was with Hillary, I think he has even more baggage than she had and she had a ton. Crazy to see people falling for it again, the "safe" choice never really turns out to be safe in the end.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Biden winning the nomination and election versus Trump is irrelevant. He would be an awful president throwing the black, brown, and poor communities that voted for him under the bus so he can tout how well he works with Republicans. And he is not putting progressives on the Supreme Court.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Again, Biden has teased us, and isnt in race

He said he'd make a desicion in early-mid April if you have been following the tea leaves thread.

Right. He has a solid base of folks ready to support him the moment he gets in. People you won’t see arguing about it on Twitter and USElectionAtlas.org

[Rookie Yinzer]

At his speech for the Delaware Democratic Party, Biden slipped up and said "I have the most progressive record of anybody running..."

Crowd then cheered.

I see the dementia is setting in.

[Rookie Yinzer]

LMAO. Joe Biden is the political embodiment of always a bridesmaid never a bride.

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1108829223685447680

[Rookie Yinzer]

Saving his ass?

Yes. He wants to use Stacey Abrams to neutralize any criticism on his heinous record on criminal and racial justice. Thankfully Ms. Abrams would never go for that bullsh-t.

[Rookie Yinzer]

This primary would be so much more interesting, satisfying, and representative of the Democratic Party if both he and Sanders weren't in it. It's always him and Sanders at the top and then the race for third or fourth place is where it gets interesting: Buttigieg, Harris, O'Rourke, and Warren have all been floating around in those positions and I would be much happier with either of those four being the nominee than Biden or Sanders. And even with just Biden out of it, it will be interesting to see if Sanders remains the second choice of voters who prefer Biden and where the rest of his support goes.

[Rookie Yinzer]

BIDEN COLLAPSE continues on the betting markets:

YES! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[Rookie Yinzer]

Statement from Biden:
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1112352042473922562

He groped children on tape. This statement means nothing.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Statement from Biden:
[tweet]

He groped children on tape. This statement means nothing.

Yes. And children who were showing very obvious signs of discomfort. And the fact that Biden couldn't even take that into account says a lot about his capacity to think about the consequences of his actions and his capacity to take other people's feelings into accounts.

As we've seen with Carter already, it's extremely inappropriate to put words in people's mouths for own political statements. If any of these women or girls were uncomfortable, they should have the opportunity to speak out about if they want, but we shouldn't just sit behind our keyboards and declare they were uncomfortable. That's an invasion of their privacy.

There’s a difference between a photo taken out of context and video of him feeling children up and down and them looking visibly uncomfortable.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I’m just wondering if y’all would be totally cool with a 70 year old man who you work with touching your child like that? Y’all are addressing everything except what he actually did. Some of you should just say you don’t care because it’s politically expedient not to and keep it moving.

[Rookie Yinzer]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1113515882960052224

Might as well be an announcement video.

https://twitter.com/LetThereBeLiz/status/1113523520670138369

[Rookie Yinzer]

Can't everyone see his entire campaign will be just one big apology tour? There's already an article out today of him voting against a black nominee back in the 70s over busing. His candidacy is shaping up to be a bigger trainwreck than either Hillary's or Jeb's.

[Rookie Yinzer]

The 8th one sounds a bit more serious.

https://www.sierrasun.com/news/local/nevada-county-woman-says-joe-biden-inappropriately-touched-her-while-working-in-his-u-s-senate-office/

Yikes! And the Democrats know if this was an accusation against McConnell or Grassley they would believe it. Joe Biden should have announced he wasn’t running long ago. He is going to ruin his image.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Joe, don't run.  You missed the boat in 2016, just as Chris Christie missed his in 2012.  The ship has sailed.  Just move on. 

In all fairness, he wouldn't have won in 2016 either. Clinton was not beatable in that primary.

Warren could have beaten her.

One of the reasons why Clinton somewhat wasn't beatable in the primaries was because her campaign contacted with the Democratic National Committee to derail Sanders' primary campaign, which is cheating.

This is false. Stop. Somehow Bernie managed to have overwhelming victories in the undemocratic caucuses orangized by the DNC.

He lost because non-white voters soundly rejected him. Many people especially rural blacks in the South and Spanish-speaking voters in the Southwest didn’t even know who he was.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Joe, don't run.  You missed the boat in 2016, just as Chris Christie missed his in 2012.  The ship has sailed.  Just move on.  

In all fairness, he wouldn't have won in 2016 either. Clinton was not beatable in that primary.

Warren could have beaten her.

One of the reasons why Clinton somewhat wasn't beatable in the primaries was because her campaign contacted with the Democratic National Committee to derail Sanders' primary campaign, which is cheating.

LOL, that's nonsense. The Clinton campaign never truly feared losing to Sanders. The only fear they had were alienating Sanders' supporters which is why Clinton basically never attacked Sanders.

Which is also the main reason she lost, because she couldn't be bothered putting him on the ticket. Clearly she had learned nothing from the team of rivalry in American political history that had served so many tickets well. To name a few of the more famous one: The JFK/Lyndon B. Johnson one of 1960. The Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Jackson one of 1860. The Ronald Reagan/George H.W. Bush one of 1980.

Bernie Sanders is an egomaniac. He would have been a nightmare on Clinton’s ticket. Y’all don’t remember him trying to debate Trump before the California Primary? Completely undermining the fact that mathematically Clinton would be the nominee. Kaine was a milquetoast pick but Bernie didn’t belong on that ticket.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I can find Republicans that support gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose. Joe Biden has a very right wing track record. Let’s wait and see what his platform is before saying there’s no difference between him and the others.

The only thing I’ve seen Joe Biden be ambitious about passing in his time in the Senate is expanding the death penalty and locking up black, brown, and poor youth.

[Rookie Yinzer]

I can find Republicans that support gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose. Joe Biden has a very right wing track record. Let’s wait and see what his platform is before saying there’s no difference between him and the others.

The only thing I’ve seen Joe Biden be ambitious about passing in his time in the Senate is expanding the death penalty and locking up black, brown, and poor youth.

If you going by voting record then why do you support Beto? Beto record is just as, if not more conservative than Biden. Plus Biden was elected during a time Democrats had senate seats in every state in the Confederacy.

Second, what a ludicrous statement I'm pretty sure Biden is not a racist and if he became President isn't going pass some Jim Crow law.

Beto didn’t write the Crime Bill, Beto hasn’t been on the wrong side on every issue of criminal and racial justice for the past 50 years, Beto didn’t bungle the Clarence Thomas hearings and shame a woman who came forward about sexual harassment. I support Beto because I think he will run the strongest in the Sun Belt and I emphatically endorse his proposal for a new Voting Rights Act, ending the federal prohibition on marijuana, universal healthcare through Medicare for America, and abolishing for-profit private prisons.

Biden’s record is trash. No amount of cute photos with Obama will change my mind.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Seriously, his “I have nothing to apologize for” attitude is not going to play well at all once Anita Hill is brought up.

As well as his "I wish I could have protected her" statement about Ms Hill. She didn't need protecting; she just needed fair treatment.

I still fully believe he is going to make an ass of himself once he gets hammered by the press and the inevitable protestors at his events. It’s cute how certain folks think he is invincible when he has been hiding out in the shadows not having to directly face scrutiny. He is absolutely terrible at handling negative press.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Wouldn’t that person be Sanders? He is obviously not shy about going after heavy hitters in the Democratic Party and would benefit the most in the short term in the event of a Biden collapse.

[Rookie Yinzer]

And when will Biden announce if he's running?

Hopefully never.