2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

Tom Perez would like people to vote for Biden, and then die.

DNC Chair Tom Perez et al., however, are threatening to sanction those postponing states with reductions in their delegates (etc)

― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:17 PM (two days ago)

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Tonight at 7pm ET @BernieSanders is set to hold a virtual town hall on Coronavirus response from his campaign office in Burlington.

It seems pretty clear he has no plan to exit the race anytime soon.
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— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) March 20, 2020

Well WTF is Biden doing? Spending time leafing through binders of women?

Biden has no official capacity to do anything right now, except talk.

and take naps

yeah Sanders is a senator; Biden is a septuagenarian

but yeah, what is he supposed to say in this scenario? "Here's what I *would* do"? Sanders is in a different situation, he's still a Senator.

but yeah, what is he supposed to say in this scenario? "Here's what I *would* do"? Sanders is in a different situation, he's still a Senator.

Yeah, because presidential candidates *never* do this, only sitting Senators.

But that would require his handlers to break the seal under which they are keeping Glass Joe.

Biden has a justifiable platform to talk every day, he's the presumptiove nominee, there's no excuse except as noted in the other thread he's mostly brain-dead

I see Dems are planning to go with the old "people will surely see through this guy if I stand back and stay quiet" strategy. Again.

Yeah, because presidential candidates *never* do this, only sitting Senators.

― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR),

Is there a candidate and campaign you have in mind?

Bernie isn't hosting Covid roundtables and holding press conferences every 3rd day because he's a *senator*

He's doing it because he has visibilty atm and knows enough to exploit it

Biden has the same and should be piledriving Trump every night at 6pm

Trump had a front row seat for Giuliani's rehab-by-catastrophe

Biden's strategy all along has been to keep a relatively low profile, so it's not too surprising he's continuing with that, but it does indeed seem like a golden opportunity to get out there and lead.

It is absolute negligence that the Dem frontrunner isn't out there every night

Biden has the same and should be piledriving Trump every night at 6pm

this sounds awful and boring and essentially just setting himself up for failure/gaffes imo

like I get that you guys need "content" but this would just make Biden look weak and irrelevant

ha as oppposed to

Giuliani's rehab-by-catastrophe

Giuliani was a sitting mayor!

And wildly unpopular. Donald Trump is a sitting president.

RMDE at the concept that the presumptive Democratic nominee should NOT say anything about his plans for addressing a pandemic crisis that will possibly last, and/or cause a financial crisis likely to last, well into his first term.

xp I am saying Trump is going to leverage this nightmare on a scale that will make Giuliani's look positively modest by comparison

the point is Giuliani could take *action* and look like he was doing something, serve as a rallying point etc.

Biden can't do that.

xps

you guys are ridiculous, stop watching these Trump pressers, they're totally irrelevant

I am saying Trump is going to leverage this nightmare on a scale

he clearly isn't, cuz he can't think of what to do and as a result is doing jackshit.

this sounds awful and boring and essentially just setting himself up for failure/gaffes imo

We can all agree on this.

What?

I'm not comparing Biden to Giuliani. I'm comparing TRUMP.

I mean if you don;t think 100% of Trump's energy isn't going to be selling himself as Savior from the Plague....

I don't really gaf what Trump's "strategy" is or bothering second-guessing/countering it tbh

voters minds are made up, this is going to be about turnout

I mean if you don;t think 100% of Trump's energy isn't going to be selling himself as Savior from the Plague....

he'll try but it'll be very hard. if he can make incredible + unprecedented economic strides particularly wrt expanding medical coverage during a medical crisis and UBI and debt forgiveness iow institute the Bernie platform to fight coronavirus, it might make up in voters eyes for slowplaying the response, the consequently inevitable high mortality rates, and general lack of preparation.

Nothing gets your core ready to turnout like hiding under your bed during a six-month pandemic.

Maybe someone should call the local police and do a wellness check on Glass Joe.

Maybe someone should call the local police and to do a wellness check on Glass Joe. Maybe he actually died of coronavirus last week and no one knew?

Never mind us, we'll keep posting.

i continue to believe that joe would be an improvement on trump and will likely pass whatever can get sent to him no matter how left-wing and i think if dems do well in nov and the crisis is still going we could pass unprecedented policy goals, but also i agree that at this moment it would be preferable if someone more vivacious and outspoken were the presumptive nominee like for instance bernie

has Trump vetoed anything? He'd probably sign whatever gets sent to him too, but nothing gets sent

if a Dem congress sent Trump a clean medicare for all bill, billions for trains, and defense cuts, he'd sign it and call it amazing

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/TrumpDJ.htm

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OTM

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-sanders-relationship-to-guide-next-phase-in-democratic-race-11584648197

lol

Rep. James Clyburn (D., S.C.), whose endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primary helped fuel Mr. Biden’s surge, said in an interview that Mr. Biden “should incorporate as much of the efforts being proposed by Bernie Sanders as he can.”

there's a legislative tactic called "gut-and-stuff", where an existing bill that has been referred to committee is amended to replace all its text with an entirely different bill that couldn't make it to a floor vote some other way. I would approve of stuffing Biden with Bernie's agenda.

Woah, woah, woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves Mr. Clyburn. First, step is to wake up Mr. Biden and tell him it's time for his juice.

Joe Biden is currently sitting in a hotel room near ORD watching rail slide videos on youtube

there's a legislative tactic called "gut-and-stuff", where an existing bill that has been referred to committee is amended to replace all its text with an entirely different bill that couldn't make it to a floor vote some other way. I would approve of stuffing Biden with Bernie's agenda.

The Face/Off reboot we didn't know we needed

Lmao

oh man someone post that img

Sounds like a job for KM.