Kellyanne Conway knocks Biden, talks up Sanders in Wash Post op-ed

[RandySF]

Presidential counselor and 2016 Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway knocked former Vice President Joe Biden in a Washington Post op-ed on Thursday while touting Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) prospects in the Democratic presidential race.

Conway argued in the op-ed that Democratic “leaders and primary voters have been seduced into the trap of focusing on electability” when it comes to Biden, while maintaining that they should be turning to Sanders if concerned about electability.

"In fact, if Democrats were serious about electability, they’d nominate the guy who actually won primary contests and proved he can play David to Goliath in key places four short years ago," Conway wrote, referring to Sanders's 2016 presidential bid.

The Trump aide went on to highlight Sanders's position near the top of primary polls and his fundraising hauls in the previous quarter, noting that he has "outlasted candidates who were media darlings and more in the mold of 'transformative' and 'historic.' "

Meanwhile, the White House official claimed that Democratic voters "are buying" Biden's assertion that he alone can beat Trump, while also downplaying the idea of "electability" in the 2020 race, arguing that "[c]andidate Trump showed that so-called electability is no match for electricity and a relentless focus on the electoral college."

Conway's op-ed, which Trump shared on Twitter on Thursday afternoon, comes after the president last week accused Democrats of seeking to undermine Sanders's chances of winning the party's presidential nomination by keeping him off the campaign trail for the Senate impeachment trial.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479629-kellyanne-conway-knocks-biden-talks-up-sanders-in-wash-post-op-ed

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. She cant believe in god, right? I mean as an atheist myself if I was going to

work on behalf of killing billions of people, which is what you are doing if you work with putin, i would not have to rationalize the god thing, but is she a believer?

Putin and his toadie want to make more money in the next 20 years and gain more power and if the entire human race is wiped out, they dont care.

They really dont. does putin have kids and grands?

My post has zip to do with Bernie or Joe or the election.

[Cha]

2. JHC.. they're Not Too ******* OBVIOUS.

[madaboutharry]

3. Is there a single Democrat

who gives a shit what Kellyanne Conway has to say? I think not.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Now why would a GOPer be talking up Sanders?

[DanTex]

5. Because she thinks Biden is going to win, and wants Sanders supporters to vote Trump in the general.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Yes. My question was entirely rhetorical and sarcastic.

[Scurrilous]

10. Yep.

They're playing a long game.

[Cha]

17. OR.. she wants BS to win so

trump can run against him.

[abqtommy]

7. Of course. Sanders is the favorite reTHUG candidate. Biden is the one they fear.

[samnsara]

8. i think they are beginning to realize we arent stupid and wont fall for their trix..

[DanTex]

11. I'd feel better about that if Bernie didn't have Turner and the other Stein voters on his staff...

[boomer_wv]

15. Problem is.

Some of us are stupid and proved in 2016 that we would fall for their tricks.

Judging from Twitter (I know, I know), a lot of folks still haven't figured out what those tricks were and are just itching to go down that road again.

[Kahuna7]

16. Right you are. Trump played some Bernie supporters like a fiddle...

He's just doing the same he did in 2016. And many will fall for it.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Sure appears the whole of the Orange Anus

reelection campaign is pumping this same meme.

[peggysue2]

12. Good Lord!

Could they be anymore obvious???

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. Operation Chaos! n/t

[boomer_wv]

14. If I were Biden.

I put together an ad of Kellyanne Conway saying you should vote for Bernie and play it wall to wall.