Politico: The left launches pre-Iowa assault on Biden

[rogue emissary]

The progressive movement is kicking off 2020 with a full-scale, whack-a-Joe mobilization against the former vice president, marked by intensified attacks and protests designed to bloody Biden in advance of the Iowa caucuses.

The grassroots assault hit from a variety of angles, starting Monday when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee demanded Biden retract statements about sexism in politics. Hours later, the group Indivisible criticized him over his immigration plan. Then, activists aligned with the Sunrise Movement recently picketed him at a New York City fundraiser hosted by a billionaire.

While Biden has taken flak from the Democratic Party’s left flank for the past year, the effort marks the first time he’s been the subject of a sustained barrage from the left, amplifying recent back-to-back broadsides from two of Biden’s top opponents, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, over Social Security and bankruptcy legislation.

The shared offensive comes on the heels of Biden’s best fundraising quarter — he pulled in nearly $23 million — since entering the presidential race in April. And it follows recent polling that shows he remains the frontrunner in national primary polls and a top-tier contender in first-in-the-nation Iowa, which holds its caucus Feb. 3.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/08/progressives-pre-iowa-assault-biden-095934?__twitter_impression=true

Link to tweet

Protestors shouting “End Israeli injustice” now interrupting John Kerry in Sioux City.

[Demsrule86]

1. The left helping Trumps reelection efforts...taking names ...these groups are off my list and I

was a member and support Indivisible...no more.

[rogue emissary]

5. I'm not a Biden supporter, but they're making me a Biden voter.

[Cha]

23. That's how I first started supporting Biden..

standing up for him against all the hit jobs.. and then the more I did it the more I liked what I saw in him as a candidate.

Just my personal story.

[still_one]

13. You arent the only one. Will see how will this works out for the campaign that hired Jill Stein

supporter Briana Joy Gray and Hillary hating David Sirota

[Perseus]

2. The left???? That would imply Joe is form the right...there is something wrong about that headline

The left??? Which left is that?

[Demsrule86]

6. The far left the ones who help elect Republicans because they hate Democrats...

[LongtimeAZDem]

12. Yep

[rogue emissary]

8. I think Biden would call himself center left.

[Demsrule86]

14. Biden call himself a progressive and sometime what I call myself a liberal...doesn't matter what

these 'protesters' call themselves...not Democrat not now and never will be. As for progressive ...nah nothing of the sort.

[Demsrule86]

9. The GOP loving left...or so one would assume from their actions.

[Cha]

24. NO.. it "implies" NO such thing.

[The Valley Below]

3. Those who help re-elect Trump are not "progressives."

[underthematrix]

4. Oh tsk tsk. This demonstrates more Americans should've

read the Mueller Report. Putin's two preferred 2016 presidential candidates were #TraitorTrump and Bernie Sanders. I don't think that's changed.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. K and R !

[The Valley Below]

11. Does that mean you approve of these tactics?

[Demsrule86]

15. Of course most of them do...someone sent these folks out all organized and all...

But they won't be so happy when it backfires on them...and Joe gains more support.

[Cha]

25. they're So Desperate.

[boomer_wv]

10. Funny thing is....

Attacks like this will help Biden.

[rogue emissary]

17. That's why I posted it.

This doesn't help their causes and disrespecting Kerry is foolish.

I do love that Kerry wasn't shaken and wanted to engage them as they walked out.

[still_one]

18. It won't help sanders for sure, and a lot of DEMOCRATS are looking at his campaigns distortions and

and realizing Sanders is NOT presidential matrerial, but a divisive person who cannot move outside of his base

[boomer_wv]

40. The Bernie folks

will never learn. As they go ballistic and scream about extreme positions while protesting Biden, it makes him look like the much more reasonable figure and cements his imagine as the moderate choice, the same position that most voters, even democratic primary voters, are at.

[Sloumeau]

16. They can waste their time all they want.

Biden's support is pretty rock solid. The only variance that I have seen seems to be just a poll sampling variance. His average on Real Clear Politics right now is close to 30%, and that is with about 12 other candidates. His average has led almost every day since he first announced about 9 months ago. They need to do something instead of sitting around moping. Of course, spending their time working for their preferred candidate would be out of the question, right?

[Gothmog]

19. These attacks tell everyone that these progressives know that they are losing

From the politico article cited in the OP

Steve Schale, the head of a super PAC dedicated to helping Biden win, said the polls tell the story of why progressives are suddenly targeting Biden.

“We’re in the last 30 days of the campaign, and that’s when people who are losing start attacking,” Schale said. “It’s not surprising they’ve taken more of a negative turn when they realized that Joe Biden after basically a year of being attacked is still the frontrunner.”

[Sloumeau]

21. Let's just call it what it is...

It is "The Attack Of The Losers".

[KPN]

22. Now that's a rational statement. Exactly, that's what the trailers do in a campaign, they attack

the leader, whether it's during a primary or a general election. So they attack where the weaknesses exist.

What else would anyone expect?

[Scurrilous]

20. Yeah...interrupt John Kerry over the I/P issue.

The same John Kerry who as secretary of state worked long and hard to reach a peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Perfect time and place for your protest/ratfucking.

[Cha]

29. Precisely, Scurrilous. The same John Kerry who was

President Obama's SOS and was instrumental in getting the Iran Deal.. That John Kerry.. the desperates didn't think this through

Kerry is quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/04/kerry-quietly-seeking-salvage-iran-deal-helped-craft/2fTkGON7xvaNbO0YbHECUL/story.html

Perfect time and place for your protest/ratfucking

I would add "obnoxiously mindless".

[Scurrilous]

35. Obnoxiously mindless is exactly right.

Hold sit-ins at Nancy Pelosi's office in D.C. and occupy her office in S.F. over climate change. Shout down Pelosi and attack Biden over immigration. These 'leftists' are both mindless and obnoxious. That's why I liked Biden's 'go vote for Trump' retort to the 'activist' who is agitating for zero deportations (LOL). I interpreted that as a 'fuck you dumb ass, learn who the real enemy is.'

[Cha]

36. I like your interpretation that

caused such "shocking" reactions!

[Scurrilous]

38. ...

[mcar]

26. How many of them voted for Dotard?

Or Putin's other puppet, Stein?

[George II]

27. It turns out that this guy, who confronted Biden face to face more than once....

....is on the Sanders campaign payroll! He's being paid to disrupt Biden's rallies and town halls.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

30. That's on BS. Thanks for this, George.

How's BS' record on Immigration?

[betsuni]

34. How "grassroots."

Yet another word with a new meaning.

Thanks for posting this.

[Scurrilous]

39. LOL

Saw that after I posted about him above. 'Not one more deportation.' Yeah, there's a well thought out position on immigration. Kudos far left.

[LakeArenal]

28. As said earlier: Biden's base is rock solid.

We are quietly waiting.

If Joe needs donors, we donate. If Joe needs support on dubious attacks we are not swayed.

As time goes, I feel more certain than ever in Biden’s presidency.

He never resorts to attack. I love that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. When the right and the left keep moving in their respective directions,

they eventually end up circling back to the same place: locked into their rigid and unforgiving ideology which allows no deviation from whatever their party line might be. AOC, for example, complains that the Democratic party is too big a tent and that some people don't belong in the House progressive caucus. Sanders' supporters refuse to tolerate so-called "establishment" Democrats, whatever that means, and at times have bashed solid long-time liberals like Nancy Pelosi and even John Lewis for being - what? - inadequate foot-soldiers in the struggle of the proletariat? Lackeys of capitalist imperialism? How is this different from the GOP being required to march in lockstep with Trump? Democrats can't win without the votes of all occupants of the big tent. If Bernie and pals want to pitch their pup-tent and keep everyone out who doesn't agree with them 100%, guess what happens.

[highplainsdem]

33. Exactly. That's Poli Sci 101. Extreme left and extreme right tend to be authoritarian.

So you have AOC complaining that the Democratic tent is "too big" and suggesting she and Biden shouldn't be in the same party.

And Biden -- so much wiser, as well as older -- responding that the Democratic tent is big enough for both of them.

We're not going to win many elections from a tiny, purity-tested tent. No matter how cozy the tiny-tenters might think they'd be if they could push others out.

I never could understand the tiny house movement, and I sure as hell don't understand anyone trying to make the Democratic Party tinier because the party's tent is supposedly "too big."

[highplainsdem]

32. Btw, those on the far left have been attacking Biden since he announced (and in some cases before he

announced).

The attacks haven't worked. They're just getting more shrill as they get more desperate.

[UniteFightBack]

37. How CUTE! We have our own version of the tea party. What shall we call it? The chai latte party

or perhaps the green tea party. Indivisible is part of this? Are they fucking kidding???

[Gothmog]

41. The attacks only show that the progressives making these attacks are losing

Progressives play whack-a-Joe with Biden
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/08/progressives-pre-iowa-assault-biden-095934

Steve Schale, the head of a super PAC dedicated to helping Biden win, said the polls tell the story of why progressives are suddenly targeting Biden.

“We’re in the last 30 days of the campaign, and that’s when people who are losing start attacking,” Schale said. “It’s not surprising they’ve taken more of a negative turn when they realized that Joe Biden after basically a year of being attacked is still the frontrunner.”

These attacks amuse me