2020 Democratic presidential primary

can you feel the Joementum

.@JoeBiden was asked again at the Iowa State Fair if he thinks Trump is a white supremacist, he responded: "Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am...

— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) August 8, 2019

good answer, Mr Vice President

"Sir, do you have the time?"
"Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am..."

I'm actually with Biden on this one. At this point Trump's racism and white supremacist mindset is established; reporters just want every Democratic candidate to say the magic words.

but will he say the words "Islamic Terrorism"

Do you have the time
to listen to me whine

Meanwhile:

Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist. I said yes.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2019

Gee, all he's ever done was make dozens or hundreds of disparaging public remarks about people of color, their criminal dispositions and their shithole countries, and launch his political career by endlessly asserting that the first black president was a native Kenyan who occupied his office illegally, while pointedly courting the approval of avowed white racists.

hahaha fuck you Joe Biden

ie a hard question for Joe Biden, eulogist for Strom Thurmond

The passive voice on politico tweets is weird - "Today I was asked" "Today I announced"

Liz, you can just tweet "Fuck Donald Trump, he's a white supremacist" and embed the YG song.

oh my fucking god

oe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”

i thought he liked to live dangerously

Joe Biden slip-up in Iowa tonight.

"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

Yikes...have fun mitigating that one. pic.twitter.com/m2VxZbnFHF

— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) August 9, 2019

imagine if any other candidate said this

Is it me or does Joe look like he's aged years just since campaigning started?

tbf he is old af and has been doing things to mitigate his oldness for a while (hair plugs, teeth, etc.)

that only mitigates his appearance and doesn't touch his oldness. after 60 aging accelerates as you enter each new decade. believe me, I know.

Biden referred to Theresa May as “Margaret Thatcher” tonight, the second time he’s done that since May.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 9, 2019

Bernie has fire in the belly

Biden has bile

Cool of Biden to pick up the Doddering Well-Meaning Racist mantle

Kindly Racist Grandpa

I know, I know, it's serious

lol

haaaaaa

Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that “those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” https://t.co/QiWHMCI8uo

— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) August 10, 2019

he needs to quit the fuckin race man

Ed Kilgore explains how it's a mistake to dismiss Warren's chances:

In this phase of the 2020 Democratic presidential contest, there are a number of interesting story lines for political observers: the huge candidate field that keeps resisting its “winnowing,” the apparent indestructibility of front-runner Joe Biden, the constant fears about electability and Trump’s efforts to paint the Donkey Party as a bunch of socialists who hate America and love open borders, and the intermittently sharp elbows the candidates are displaying toward each other.

But the development that currently demands attention is the emergence of Senator Elizabeth Warren as something other than the candidate of policy wonks, dismissed as nonviable even among people who think she’d make an outstanding president. Her strong debate performances, a knack for organizing (based on her outstanding retail political skills), and the misfortunes affecting some of her rivals have combined to give her the clear path to the Democratic nomination that she really did not have in the early going.

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

same people who aren't dismissing biden lol?

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

― Simon H., Saturday, August 10, 2019

Pretty sure he means the Dem leadership, which, ugh.

I think they'll come around

Slipknot appears to be doing its sound check while Cory Booker is giving his speech right nearby at the Iowa State Fair soapbox.

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) August 10, 2019

Hey there, @ewarren! pic.twitter.com/0rcL3sV9Js

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2019

PLUR

Dem leaders want those billionaires, baby

If Corey Booker hired a guitarist to crank out floor-punching riffs behind him during his speeches, he'd be up ten points in the polls inside a week.

As @CoreyBooker spoke about war and death at the #IowaStateFair, you can hear @slipknot’s sound check in the background and it’s hilariously metal. pic.twitter.com/LWAFSG2NuV

— Ryan Smith (@RyanSmithWriter) August 10, 2019

corey booker + slipknot = tom morello

I have that Consolidated album

these did not do a great job in 2016 (worse than the polls iirc) but warren just overtook biden for the first time among the gamblers

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination

lol at yang in 5th

yang is not running on ideas, he's running on techie id pol

Yeah that’s one of the ways you know the group of people setting these odds are a little unusual

I hope John Delaney gets to go on the slide at the Iowa State Fair again pic.twitter.com/vI5Md3xS2a

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) August 9, 2019

"yang is not running on ideas, he's running on techie id pol"

elon musk just endorsed him so you know he's a terrible idea

thats perfect. i want all these assholes to fly to the moon and die in a week when they cant figure out where to shit.

like returning to any other venue for a fiftieth anniversary so

perfect picture pic.twitter.com/O962UOINN3

— 🕳⚰️💨 (@a_alesy) August 11, 2019

glad to be entering the food-on-a-stick-photo-op portion of the precaucus season, hope we can get some good ones from the other 0%-to-1% candidates before they drop out

precaucus season

If the ability to eat a corn dog were the deciding factor, I'd be president already

It's hard to find clothes that fit properly when you're seven feet tall.

de blasio looks so out of place hahaha