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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Biden's 2020 bid reshapes White House race
By James Oliphant and John Whitesides WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
39 Comments
Blacklabel
Biden just going to get his feelings hurt when all the other Dem candidates start leaking bad things about him.
He seems like a decent man with moderate ideas that most people could actually accept. But thats not what the Dems want right now, bad timing.
Steven C. Schulz
A vice-presidential candidate must meet the same qualifications as a presidential candidate.
Since she'll not be 35 by Jan. 20, 2021, she's ineligible.
Steven C. Schulz
Biden was always going to suck the air from the room, and deflate the candidacies of his primary opponents. It'll likely come down to Biden v Sanders for the nomination.
Sneezy
It literally isn't.
The Avenger
Biden is too old, and too associated with the hegemony in place today; we need new blood.
lincolnman
I admire and respect VP Biden - he's one of the few politicans that truly cares about people. Ask anyone who has worked with him, Democrat or Republican, and they'll tell you what a compassionate, caring person he is- and that includes Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
But I think Joe should pass on running this time for two resaons;
He is widely admired and respected for his service and career...go out on a high note....
Age is a factor - it's time for a younger generation...
You'll be remembered as a statesman and a gentlerman - let that be your legacy...
Jimizo
Why ‘they’? I’d say regurgitating rancid conspiracy trash from the tabloids is very much Trump’s game.
Anyway, I thought his supporters liked it. They certainly never criticized him here for doing it.
PTownsend
Would they be like the neo-fascists trying to sell themselves off as Trump supporters?
Hi pot kettle
Jimizo
Total gibberish.
sf2k
Joe would have to come out with some stance different than others that appeals if this is going to work. He's a nice enough guy but the times have shifted. President Sanders is the natural progression needed before President AOC
Laguna
Dems nominating who is in effect another Clinton is a recipe for defeat (not that Clinton would have been a bad president). This is just sad: Biden was an admirable senator and VP for some five decades and deserves respect, but he will be hit hard here.
Anonymous
@Kestrel
It seems that Mr. Biden has made remembering his public service just a bit more difficult as his papers covering the period of his Senatorial career will not become available to researchers until December 31, 2019.
From Washington Free Beacon:
“Biden stipulated when he donated the papers that their release could come "no sooner than two years after [Biden] retires from any public office," according to the library [University of Delaware]”.
Mr. Biden left public office on January 20, 2017. He quite reasonably retained the option to postpone access, but failure to release them now that his hat is in the ring could draw criticism from other candidates. However, I think there’s only a teensy-weensy chance of that.
bass4funk
Spot on. even though Biden is also a huge gaffe machine and just can’t help himself, he leaves a treasure chest of policies that he’s flipped and flopped over through the years, both socialists and the Republicans are going to hammer him hard, not to mention you can tell his heart is not in this, this is serious train wreck waiting to happen. When it comes, it’s going to come heavy and merciless.
Jimizo
Not one of his best. Time to find some conspiracy trash in the National Enquirer. Any links to the JFK assassination?
Texas A&M Aggie
The far left radical socialist wing of the democrat party will chew up moderate, reach-across-the-aisle Biden and spit him out in record time.
bass4funk
Zichi, no one is worried, we’re all laughing, Biden is everything all the socialists don’t want. Old, White, a centrist, not going to happen.
PTownsend
Identity politics redux. Hi pot kettle.
lincolnman
Well, Joe will have a big leg up if the Faux News Crew turn on Donnie...
“I’m disappointed in the behavior of the president,” Napolitano said in his video. “His job is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States to uphold and enforce federal law. Not to violate it.”
He said if Trump violated the law to save a life, he could have a moral defense.
“But ordering obstruction to save himself from the consequences of his own behavior is unlawful, defenseless and condemnable,” he wrote on the website.
Well said Judge Napalitano...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-napolitano-criminal-trump_n_5cc26532e4b081706966eb7f
lincolnman
In comparison to Repubs who are saddled with someone who attempted to obstruct justice on 10 occasions, can't pronounce "origins", and is too senile to remember his father wasn't born in Germany....
lincolnman
What a load of BS....
bass4funk
Because the socialists want to win and they can’t do that being nice to Biden with 20 liberal socialists? No, they have to go full in an expose his hilarious gaffes and missteps on so many issues over the years if they want to get ahead in this race, should be fun to watch.
Naw, I would say the media and CNN by the way ratings looking kinda queasy recently.
If he’s wrong, but I’m more worried about liberals not criticizing the Democrats and their daily blunders which is evident and apparent the WH is slowly slipping from their grasps.
Halwick
I can't wait for either to name AOC as their running mate.
Texas A&M Aggie
Biden has a much more difficult row to hoe this time than his two previous runs for president. He is an old school democrat who represents a bygone era when they proudly professed to be liberals; meaning, big government was the only way to move America "forward". Now, he must present himself to a dwindling democrat voting base as a candidate who, like all the others in the DNC clown car, must profess his abject hatred for America if he has any chance of getting nominated. Time will tell if he can hold his nose tight enough to do that.
bass4funk
No.
I’m sorry, the Socialists that are trying to sell themselves off as Democrats, my bad.
Not fear, you can’t be afraid or fear something you think is outrageously funny.
The Liberals were the ones that created identity politics. I’m just going by what their standards are, not mine. Lol
bass4funk
The Economy and border security and I know. The Democrats will be running on identity politics and on healthcare and the environment, but they will never talk about how to decrease the cost in premiums and overall health care and we don’t even want to talk about the economy because for the Democrats what that means is more taxation in regulation. Not to mention they still cannot get over and control themselves and put aside their obsession with this president and trying to look for something to hang him on with this obstruction nonsense, they are already shooting themselves in the foot.
bass4funk
Not really, because most neofascist are socialist, it’s in the word. Capitalism is not one of them. Lol
bass4funk
Biden should be a breeze. Look through the rolodex of gaffes.
And I already answered.
No, I’m not obsessed with anyone, I’m just seeing what the fact is and if Biden gets into the race, he’s going to be pulled apart from both sides from the socialist and from Trump and the Republicans.
bass4funk
over 40 years later n public office they don’t need to. Trump just has to sit back and watch him get pummeled by the socialists first then Trump can go for the jugular.
Halwick
I agree, but I'm sure the DNC will find a way to change the rule so she CAN be eligible as a running mate. AOC is the "darling" of the new far left socialists and will demand the change, just as they are demanding elimination of the electoral college that enabled Trump to beat Hillary.
It's going to be fun to see the Democrat Party implode as the far left socialists factions battles the traditional liberal factions. All Trump has to do is stand back and let them shoot themselves in the foot and mouth.
The 2020 Democrat primaries and Convention will be a repeat of the 1968 Democrat campaign (with the exception of an assassination). It's going be a nasty primary and the AOC radical faction will split the party and alienate the moderates and traditional party liberals.
Serrano
We are in the battle for the soul of this nation," Biden said.
True!
"I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.
Uh, no, Joe, the aberrant moment in time was the eight years during when you and Obuma were running things.
The ironic thing is, apart from Tulsi Gabbard, who most likely will not get nominated as she makes too much sense, Biden is, incredibly, the best Democratic candidate. Democrats have really screwed themselves for 2020.