Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread v3 (pg 45 - mass-dropout aftermath)

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One group of people that are probably really angry now are all the candidates that got no traction because Biden was there, people like Cory Booker, its kind of funny how Biden arguably blocked stronger candidates from gaining any ground only to basically collapse at the end himself.

Kamala Harris should still be in this race. It's disgusting.

I think she was hobbled by a loss of steam and a crummy campaign but yes she should absolutely still be in.

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Bye Done loses Nevada and either his win in South Carolina is embarrassingly close or he loses outright.

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Biden/Gillibrand? Biden/Ayanna Pressley? Biden/Harris?

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I’m now realizing we’re in a phase of the campaign where Biden can fall into a number of land mines. Do not pick Kamala Harris — she has so many obvious skeletons and we all know it. Stacey Abrams and whoever the hell this Barragan person is are ultimate identity politics picks. Duckworth as a veteran and senator is a pick that can stand on the merit as much as these things can be.

Beto needs to be more or less shelved. I really like the guy, but the Biden campaign needs to be cognizant of who and what is politically toxic to persuadable groups. I have some confidence they will but not overwhelmingly.

Every VP in the last hundred years has been decided by identity politics. Race and Gender are only recent additions to this dogma. Regional identities, factional identities, religious identities, cultural identities, ethnic identities, state identities - they are the keys to the VP slot. This applies to both parties.

Let me expand: Stacey Abrams was a State Senate Minority Leader and this "Nanette Barragan" person is an obscure congressman from an electorally irrelevant part of the country. Kamala Harris has similar problems and has her own set of character flaws. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has already been given a huge vote of confidence by black voters. The only reason they'd be picked is to feed into this toxic mindset of deserved representation.

Biden's VP pick seems unusually important. He is, indeed, an old man who should pick someone relatively young but also makes his candidacy appealing to more people who can be persuaded to support him. There are some people who fit this mold, but the names being floated right now just aren't.

"toxic mindset of deserved representation" what??? I swear y'all anti-idpol people will say ANYTHING.