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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/02/joe-bidens-very-bad-week-has-his-white-house-run-failed-before-it-beginsJoe Biden's very bad week: has his White House run failed before it begins?
David Smith in Washington
Tue 2 Apr 2019 06.20 BST
Some presidential campaigns take time to hit their stride while others hit the ground running. But Joe Biden appears to be hobbling even before he reaches the starting blocks. The past week has delivered a barrage of damaging news reports that might persuade the former vice president, long agonising over whether to make a third bid for the White House, to keep procrastinating a little while longer.
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This setback followed a backlash last week after the Axios website reported that some of Bidens advisers were considering linking his campaign announcement with a promise to select Stacey Abrams, a rising star who unsuccessfully ran for Georgia governor last year, as his running mate. Critics found this patronising towards an African American woman who might run for president herself. Abrams responded: You dont run for second place.
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Meanwhile, Biden made his latest attempt to express regret for how the Senate judiciary committee, which he chaired at the time, handled Anita Hills sexual harassment allegations against supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas. At the Biden Courage Awards in New York, he said: To this day, I regret I couldnt come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved. Some found the comments inadequate and called on Biden to apologise to Hill directly.
And conservative media refocused attention on past reports about his son Hunter Bidens links to a Ukrainian oligarch and natural gas company in 2014. It has all been a brutal reminder that this 76-year-old white male centrist, though performing strongly in early polls, can take nothing for granted in a party where the energy is with women, minorities and young progressives. The 2020 election will not be fought in his comfort zone.
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Perpetually hands-on and whispering-in-ears, Biden describes himself as a tactile politician. Video of him touching women has previously been dubbed the audacity of grope by Comedy Centrals The Daily Show. A moment of reckoning was inevitable in the era of the MeToo era movement. But few predicted it would come before Bidens even launched his candidacy.
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There was a chorus of support including Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late senator John McCain, and Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, who told the AP: I dont think that this disqualifies him from running for president, not at all.
Indeed, despite the rocky build-up, it would be premature to write Biden off. He has name recognition, that long association with Obama, vast foreign policy experience, numerous friends in the Democratic establishment and a perceived appeal to blue collar workers who deserted the party for Donald Trump in key Midwest states in 2016.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Cha
(297,323 posts)permission to post that many paragraphs?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
They (whoever they are) must really be nervous about Biden's entrance into the race.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,323 posts)"really big fan, But...".
snowybirdie
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
gapaddy
(7 posts)Black voters still like Joe the most for their Democrat POTUS candidate for 2020. Sanders, Booker, Harris next in that order
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+only+potential+candidate+who+had+a+better+net+favorable+rating+than+Sanders%22&oq=%22the+only+potential+candidate+who+had+a+better+net+favorable+rating+than+Sanders%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.20418j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Cha
(297,323 posts)I so appreciate our Black Voters.. our Democratic Base!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
femmedem
(8,203 posts)I think it may even energize some people to vote for him as they get angry about what they perceive as much ado about nothing.
Btw, you might want to edit your OP. The standard copyright rule is that you can excerpt no more than four paragraphs without permission.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)A bullshit attempt to derail him with ratfucking. They wont care. Particularly in contrast to the pussygrabbing, porn star paying, beauty pageant creeping, daughter groping, possible child rapist.
What people want is to beat that piece of shit and Joe is the best bet to do that. Winning is all that matters.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden