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

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Joe Biden has 99 problems, but Ukraine ain't one

t's time for Americans to take a closer look at former Vice President Joe Biden, the man who stands about an even chance or so of becoming America’s next president. Biden has been wronged by President Donald Trump, who withheld $391 million in military aid from Ukraine while pressuring that nation's leader to announce a spurious criminal investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter. That does not mean that Biden is a saint, or that his past is free of scandals. As far as Biden is concerned, the lesson we should learn from the impeachment hearings is not that he did nothing wrong, but rather that we should separate truth from fiction.

If Trump is right about one thing, he's right that Biden is in a very strong position to beat him in the 2020 presidential election. Who is this man that so many Americans refer to as “Uncle Joe?”

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/28/joe-biden-has-99-problems-ukraine-isnt-one-of-them/

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Why Twitter underestimates Joe Biden

Poll of the week: A new Ipsos poll shows that former Vice President Joe Biden leads the Democratic primary race nationwide among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents with 26%. He's followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at 19% and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 13%. No other candidate hits double-digits.
This was the first national poll taken since California Sen. Kamala Harris suspended her candidacy.
What's the point: Biden is maintaining his national lead just as he has all year, while Harris decided to exit the race. That was not the way it was supposed to be at the beginning of the year. Biden's a gaffe machine who is ripped almost every day on Twitter. Harris seemed to be a candidate who could unite the Democratic Party with a devoted Twitter following.
I can't help but wonder whether part of Harris' failure was that her campaign cared too much about Twitter (to the extent that it wanted to ban President Donald Trump from it), while Biden continues to succeed because his campaign has made the bet that much of the Democratic Party isn't represented on the social media platform.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/politics/twitter-joe-biden-analysis/index.html

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https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1204029539376087040

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https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1205126482529529856

https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1205129199918493697

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1205162897577373696

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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1205273650565386246

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https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1208086957118480385

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1208183323660636161

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How Trump has given Biden a major campaign boost

After three years of his chaotic presidency, President Donald Trump has made nostalgia a big, bold idea among Democrats. This is one of the secrets to former Vice President Joe Biden's ongoing success in the polls. The President, with the full support of his party in Congress, has pushed politics so far off-kilter that Americans are desperately yearning for normalcy in the Oval Office.
On paper, Biden is not offering anything very dramatic. He himself embodies an older vision of the Democratic Party, in contrast to the slate of women, African Americans and Latinos who have made inroads in both the presidential race and in Congress. While his campaign has put forward a series of policy promises that aim to expand on President Barack Obama's domestic record, he often talks about a return to some kind of better past.
Biden has called for Democrats and Republicans to work together again. During the debate this week, he said that while he has "no love" for Republicans who attacked his family, "the fact is, we have to be able to get things done." Biden has frequently repeated a key tenet of his campaign: "We're in a battle for the soul of America." In doing so, he often talks about traditional American values that he respects and would champion as commander-in-chief. Even his "no malarkey" bus tour, which has been thoroughly mocked by younger generations, takes us back in time with the use of outdated slang.
Progressive critics point out that these promises evoke a past that no longer exists (and in many cases, never existed) and thus misleads voters into thinking that our country is in better shape than it is. His calls for bipartisanship, for instance, have rightly been met with deep skepticism given the radical outlook of a GOP that hasn't shown any interest in reaching across the aisle for several decades. Biden appeals to our better angels, but the Trump era has shown that those angels are too often absent from our polity.
But the criticism isn't undercutting Biden as much as it might in different times. And the reason is the President. Trump has blown up an already volatile political atmosphere with the way he governs. His vitriolic tweets, his aggressive use and abuse of presidential power, his punitive policies, his smashmouth attacks on opponents and his total disregard for the conventions and norms of Washington have created a toxic atmosphere where everything feels upended. To many Democrats, the nation is in a true state of crisis.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/opinions/trump-campaign-boost-for-biden-return-to-normalcy-zelizer/index.html

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According to the Jacobin Magazine

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1211479555166396416

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https://twitter.com/reilyseanconn/status/1211841759661178881

https://twitter.com/aznmike1214hot1/status/1211982206488285186

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https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1212179439536226309

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1212954848666234880

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https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1213146363958968320

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1213150323835060225

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1213131655474376705

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https://twitter.com/business/status/1213169332966109186

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https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1213270456578514944

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https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1213655688360202240

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1213653064730783744

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Why Biden is going to win the Democrat presidential nomination

Even though the Iowa caucus isn’t for another month, I feel confident that Joe Biden will be the Democrat presidential nominee. Here’s why.

It starts with the polls. Biden has been dominant. Since Real Clear Politics started its polling average in December 2018, Biden has led for all but one day. Sen. Elizabeth Warren eclipsed him by 0.2 percentage points on Oct. 2. She now trails him by 13 percent and is in third place, also trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders.

This isn’t how many political pundits expected last year to go. They chalked up Biden’s pre-announcement lead to his high name ID. He was supposed to gaffe his way into an early exit. He wasn’t progressive enough for the liberal wing of the party either.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-joecks/victor-joecks-why-biden-is-going-to-win-the-democrat-presidential-nomination-1928520/

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Trump Administration is making Biden a favor.

https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1213831687035129858

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Biden is playing the anti-war card.

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1213908021304332288

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Joe Biden Wants to Be a Normal President in a Highly Abnormal Age

Democrats, in the months ahead, should ask themselves whether America is ready to veer from a president who has trashed the Constitution to a leader who wants to overhaul the entire economy and health care system in a single four-year term. There is a pro-Biden case to inaugurate a long-overdue interval of national healing rather than a season of dramatic transformation.


Even if his restorationist campaign proves successful, Biden would be destined to be a transitional president. Sometimes, more than anything, a democracy needs a chance to exhale. There is no shame in competence, knowing how to govern, and a faith that compromise in a post-Trump world is possible. Accidental though he was, the record after four decades shows that Jerry Ford was a pretty good president. 

https://newrepublic.com/article/155958/joe-biden-2020-campaign-profile-man-full

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https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1214634993328230401

https://twitter.com/presidentodds/status/1214648145617002500

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1214644882704392194

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1214732236265861123

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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1214822009496100864

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https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1215293918197305350

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https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1216202363620462593