Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

The rot in white America’s heart will only ever put worse and worse Republicans into power

that may be true, but this appeals to an ever narrowing slice of the electorate, and is propped up by widespread efforts to steal votes rather than earn them.

Is it not working?

it has worked, I'm not convinced it will work much longer

The party of 'Trumpism today, Trumpism tomorrow, and Trumpism forever' is going to find it nearly impossible to get the electorate to endorse Trump himself a second time. Their only hope in November would be to engage in vote suppression on a massive scale, unprecedented since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed. Their next best hope is being out of power, since all they really know how to do well and consistently is to obstruct, complain, vilify, hatch conspiracy theories, and prove the country is ungovernable without their consent.

The Senate filibuster must be destroyed forever in 2021. If the ship is going down, at least it will be clear who was in charge.

if you trust Biden or anyone in his circle to meaningfully capitalize on or substantively counteract any of that then we have reached a pretty clear "agree to disagree" situation xps

also iirc Biden does not support ending the filibuster

(and yeah I know Bernie didn't either, but at least he had a scheme in mind to accomplish similar ends)

yes, I agree completely with your first post. As to the 2nd, you may well be right, but there needs to be huge amount of pressure put on him to do just that.

Joe Biden thinks his calling card is his long history of reaching across the aisle (to work with such luminaries as Jesse Helms, Storm Thurmond and... Mitch McConnell).

(And Cornpop, probably)

he's under a lot of delusions about that stuff that he will need to disabuse of very quickly.

How exactly does one "disabuse" the late-septuagenarian most powerful person of the political program he's pursued his entire life?

most powerful person in the world

The Joe Biden who exists is the Joe Biden you're getting. You have no leverage over him once in office - you gonna vote for Tom Cotton in 2024 over a second Biden term?

is this election over yet

The Joe Biden Who Exists is the Joe Biden You're Getting by Flannery O'Connor

is this election over yet

jokes on you it's still q4 2016

It really feels like that's true, is the problem.

the psychic trauma and humiliation of having to deal with a constant daily flow of utterly shitty things flowing from his incompetence and malevolence will in fact come to an end.

one of the very worst things about Trump's presidency is that the daily flow of utterly shitty things will in fact continue after he loses, as so many of them have been set up to keep running

death to America etc.

of course

(sorry, I was duty bound to complete the bit)

the Dem rank and file has never put pressure on a D president in my entire life.

^not since LBJ anyhoo

The argument that Biden needs to shore up African American turnout is a good one, but if Harris had the kind of draw with them them that her boosters on the internet say she'd be picking the VP, not in the running for it.

— Nied (@BNiederer) June 12, 2020

That is a pretty weak argument, unless "her boosters" is meant to be refer only to the hardest of hardcore KHive dead-enders.

Our country is crying out for leadership that Donald Trump can’t deliver. pic.twitter.com/QHvUdgg6Io

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 12, 2020

His campaign advisors and media managers have what the military calls "a target-rich environment". But even though the message that Trump is a horrible man, horrible leader, and disaster for the nation needs to be a bass note running through the campaign from now to November, it is not one his base needs to absorb before choosing between them.

At some point he'll need to figure out some key issues where he rewards voters for bestowing their vote upon him, something to be eager for, not just bashing Trump on the daily. His signature program can probably can wait for the 'convention', whatever that looks like, but it needs to arrive by September to help drive turnout, both up and down the ballot.

I have to admit I'm still chuckling at the "de fund for the police" tweet. I'm half convinced it'll turn out prophetic.

he should run on legalizing marijuana

being the Democratic nominee for president in a period of rapidly rising demands for social change, and needing the national base to show up for you to win, encourages a somewhat different perspective than being senator from Delaware in a time of rampant Reaganism. if he knows how to shift left, he will.

kinda unlikely considering his quotes on the subject from a only a month ago xp

we'll find out more as we go along. masses in the streets in most states alters matters. but change is hard for anyone, let alone an old man who has been amply rewarded for his past views.

I think I just caught a YouTube ad from him that starts off "Hello everyone. I'm coming to you today for ask a quick favor."

please give me $5

I'll Come Right to the Point: A thread for political e-mail speak

The Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday that a poll that was conducted in the same period as the earlier Michigan poll, but a day later — and by the same pollster, EPIC-MRA — showed that Biden’s margin was actually 16 points. That’s within the margin of error of the other poll, so it doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump’s numbers deteriorated that week. But when you compare it with EPIC-MRA’s earlier polling, which in January showed Biden up just six points, that does indicate a decline for Trump: From Biden at plus-6 in January to Biden between plus-12 and plus-16 in early June.

And there are plenty of other examples where that came from this month. For this post, we will focus not on all polls of a given state or the national race, which can be scattershot, but on polls that were run by the same pollster, as the Michigan ones were.

A clear majority of them suggest that Biden’s lead is expanding.

To wit:

• An Iowa poll for the Des Moines Register by respected pollster Ann Selzer last week showed Trump up by just one point (44-43), after it showed him up 10 in March (51-41). The new poll tied for Trump’s smallest margin to date — in any poll — in a state he won by nine points in 2016.
• A Wisconsin poll for Fox News early this month showed Biden up nine points (49-40) after leading by five (46-41) in January. The new poll tied for Trump’s biggest deficit to date in a state he won by one point in 2016.
• A CNN poll last week showed Biden up 14 points (55-41) nationally after it showed him up five points (51-46) last month.
• A Washington Post-ABC News poll from late May showed Biden up 10 points nationally (53-43) after it showed him up just two (49-47) in March.
• A Fox News poll in late May showed Biden up eight points nationally (48-40) after it showed him tied with Trump (42-42) in April.
• A CNBC poll in late May showed Biden up seven nationally (48-41) — his biggest margin to date in a poll that earlier in the month showed him up three.

i for one am shocked that a massive mishandled pandemic, 13% unemployment and nightly protests about racial injustice across the world might perhaps sway voters

EPIC-MRA is a very funny name for a polling institution

In 2016, my neighborhood had some bumper stickers and small yard signs, but I didn't see any large yard signs or flags. A few weeks back, someone on one of the main roads put a Trump 2020 flag on their house. Last night on a bike ride, I noticed that they were now surrounded on three sides by neighbors with Biden flags. Their house is for sale as well; I'm not sure how recent that development is.

I clicked on a YT interview with elderly Mae West. A Biden ad started, and somehow I wasn't surprised.

Because his target market is people too confused by modern life to install adblockers?

ooh

sic burn

my ad blocker is breaking lately, the starts of the ads are getting through—and it's wall-to-wall trump or biden ads

the Underworld poll would have definitely killed me if I was getting ads on youtube

Joe Biden: "You ought to marry into a family of 5 or more sisters... You know why that's the reason? One of them always loves you." pic.twitter.com/6ZIoG4t2Oj

— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2020

More evidence of VP Mitt

For the record I agree 100 percent with Senator Klobuchar. Angela Davis is the only logical choice.

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 19, 2020

or Clair Huxtable.

i think biden's suits are kind of cool. he often reaches for a much brighter blue than the dark navy that politicians usually wear.

he's really taking the empty-suit thing to its logical extreme, i agree

has joe biden considered maybe offering a plan to provide healthcare to all people

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) June 19, 2020