Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread

[Jon Tester]

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.

[Not Me, Us]

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 don’t know what kind of crazy bizarro world Biden lives in where he has a progressive record on anything.

[junior chįmp]

Coons and Dem insiders are pushing Biden, due to Sanders; however, they wind up splitting vote in favor of Harris, once the contest goes to Super Tuesday

BIDEN cannot win. Old white man rife with male pattern baldness brings reminders of McGOVERN 1972 in which only Massasschussets voted for acid, amnesty, and abortion. As such, invisible hand of mcgovern continues to haunt all DEM primary candidates and continued reputidation of his policies sets the score.

Harris/Sanders/Warren/Buttigieg bring memories of McGovern and Mondale, all of them are too radical to win an election

Wrong. McGovern and Mondale lost because the economy was too good. They would of won in a recession. Declaring someone lost because they were "too radical," is what narrative fiction writing pundits and political nerds with an agenda do after an election in order to satisfy the public's obsession with being given a simple and explainable causal relationship for an outcome (or in the political nerds case....an excuse the try and jam their agenda through)

Reagan and FDR are examples of radicals who got elected but since they won, the history is rewritten to make it seem like they werent radicals with their presidencies watered down and white washed to the point they become normalized.

Both won, because they beat extremely unpopular incumbents, basically the equivalents of modern-day Blanche Lincoln

The economy determines your popularity

[Sestak]

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.

Big oof

[Shadows]

Biden is going to struggle putting together a campaign without major gaffes because it is too late for him to change.

[DabbingSanta]

Biden, despite gaffes, has been front runner since polling for 2020 began. His likely campaign should not be discredited — he is over qualified and has a strong base of support. He has a realistic chance of winning the primaries.

[RI]

Biden's "gaffes" won't matter hardly at all. That's just part of who he is and people know that already. It's baked into his numbers.

[Lechasseur]

Biden's "gaffes" won't matter hardly at all. That's just part of who he is and people know that already. It's baked into his numbers.

Agreed

Biden, despite gaffes, has been front runner since polling for 2020 began. His likely campaign should not be discredited — he is over qualified and has a strong base of support. He has a realistic chance of winning the primaries.

And agreed

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

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.

Just jump in already Biden, enough of playing around.

[junior chįmp]

Biden's "gaffes" won't matter hardly at all. That's just part of who he is and people know that already. It's baked into his numbers.

Agreed

Biden, despite gaffes, has been front runner since polling for 2020 began. His likely campaign should not be discredited — he is over qualified and has a strong base of support. He has a realistic chance of winning the primaries.

And agreed

The fact that so many blue avatars support that blue eyed white devil Biden tells you all you need to know.

[DabbingSanta]

Biden's "gaffes" won't matter hardly at all. That's just part of who he is and people know that already. It's baked into his numbers.

Agreed

Biden, despite gaffes, has been front runner since polling for 2020 began. His likely campaign should not be discredited — he is over qualified and has a strong base of support. He has a realistic chance of winning the primaries.

And agreed

The fact that so many blue avatars support that blue eyed white devil Biden tells you all you need to know.

What, that we exercise our critical thinking skills?

[libertpaulian]

Biden will crash and burn, as he did in '88 and '08.  Especially with the base tiring of the old way of doing politics.

[junior chįmp]

Biden's "gaffes" won't matter hardly at all. That's just part of who he is and people know that already. It's baked into his numbers.

Agreed

Biden, despite gaffes, has been front runner since polling for 2020 began. His likely campaign should not be discredited — he is over qualified and has a strong base of support. He has a realistic chance of winning the primaries.

And agreed

The fact that so many blue avatars support that blue eyed white devil Biden tells you all you need to know.

What, that we exercise our critical thinking skills?

Critical thinking is anti-American

[Progressive Pessimist]

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 don’t know what kind of crazy bizarro world Biden lives in where he has a progressive record on anything.

That is indeed a load of bunk, but for some reason Biden just has this affect on people, it seems, to like him regardless of his many faults. It borders on how Trump operates too.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He made his first gaffee and will make more, as he should of announced already; as a result, he wants a short race, as frontrunners do, so he can win the nomination.

He has Coons keep announcing that Biden will jump in and he fails to deliver

[Ronnie]

I am a skeptic of the skeptics.  Biden won't flame out because he is really the only viable candidate who occupies the lane of the Democratic Party that won Hillary Clinton the nomination in 2016.  He is far and away the leader among boomers and silents (black and white) and they are the people whom politicians can count on to vote in primaries.  He doesn't even have to tack left; almost everyone else is already doing that, and not everyone in the Democratic Party is progressive.

If another centrist establishment figure who could reasonably contest Biden for his corner of the Dem base (e.g. Hillary Clinton) ran, then I'd be a little less confident about his prospects.  But right now, I think he's the frontrunner, and he won't be particularly easy to dislodge.

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I am a skeptic of the skeptics.  Biden won't flame out because is really the only viable candidate who occupies the lane of the Democratic Party that won Hillary Clinton the nomination in 2016.  He is far and away the leader among boomers and silents (black and white) and they are the people whom politicians can count on to vote in primaries.  He doesn't even have to tack left; almost everyone else is already doing that, and not everyone in the Democratic Party is progressive.

If another centrist establishment figure who could reasonably contest Biden for his corner of the Dem base (e.g. Hillary Clinton) ran, then I'd be a little less confident about his prospects.  But right now, I think he's the frontrunner, and he won't be particularly easy to dislodge.

If Biden doesn't crash, then the race will likely become Bernie vs. Biden.

[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.

[ProudModerate2]

Biden, out of all the Dem candidates, has the best chance of beating Traitorous Trump.
I can see Independents supporting Biden, more than the other Dem candidates in the general election (and more than trump, obviously).
And if Biden is OK with it, I can see Obama jumping into the election big-time, by massively campaigning for Biden. Obama would do this more for Biden, then any other Dem candidate; that would be huge.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

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.

We are so doomed...

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

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.

[libertpaulian]

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.

[Cold War Liberal]

If Biden runs, my exact feeling will be "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"

[Dukakisite1988]

Biden will crash and burn, as he did in '88 and '08.  Especially with the base tiring of the old way of doing politics.

Biden only crashed and burned in the former. In '08 he was never a major factor and hardly ever broke out of the 1-3% range in the polls. In fact it can be argued that his gaffes helped him then as they were the only time he ever got attention.

[DaWN]

There are legitimate reasons to think Biden may flame out, and fair enough if you think so, but citing his previous runs isn't all that much of an argument given he's now a former VP which makes the situation a bit different.