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Joe Biden is sending out some pretty strong signals that if he wins in November 2020, he will only serve one term. This does not look like a good move for him and makes him look weak. It makes me wonder how much he even wants the one term.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he would serve only a single term.
While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.
According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president.
Bernie Sanders still has the wind at his back from the so-called "Progressive" wing of the party even though he is running only second in the national polls behind Joe Biden.
Of course Sanders faces a headwind from the Democrat establishment and much of the media, who do not believe he can win in November and are concerned about the damage that his open identification with "Socialism" will do to the Democrat party brand, should he win the nomination, much less the presidency.
So today the leaders of 50 "Progressive" groups have come together to endorse Bernie Sanders.
The Center for Popular Democracy Action, a coalition of more than 50 progressive groups, on Tuesday announced it was endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primary race. Sanders received 75 percent of the votes cast by groups in the coalition’s network to pick a candidate to back in the organization's first-ever presidential endorsement, the group said.
“Bernie Sanders is the powerful movement candidate we need to defeat Donald Trump. From ending mass incarceration and deportations to the $15 minimum wage and Medicare for All, Sanders is working hand-in-hand with our communities to champion the policies that we need to thrive,” Jennifer Epps-Addison, co-executive director and network president of the coalition, said in the announcement.
Not Elizabeth Warren (who has now slipped back to fourth place in the RCP poll average for Iowa and New Hampshire. Meanwhile, in the same RCP Poll average, Bernie Sanders has taken the lead in New Hampshire and is running second in Iowa. Sanders is looking pretty strong, for those who have not been paying attention.
Meanwhile, in the same RCP Poll average, Bernie Sanders has taken the lead in New Hampshire and is running second in Iowa. Sanders is looking pretty strong, for those who have not been paying attention.
Not bad for an old guy that just had a heart attack.
His handlers did right by him by using his exit from the hospital as a good photo-op, he looked pretty spry (make-up, lighting, angles and other tricks of the trade) from the pics I saw.
I'm a Trump supporter but will admit I have a sneaking admiration for Bernie's style (and his honesty and lack of focus-group testing when touting his planned programs).
Not bad for an old guy that just had a heart attack.
His handlers did right by him by using his exit from the hospital as a good photo-op, he looked pretty spry (make-up, lighting, angles and other tricks of the trade) from the pics I saw.
I'm a Trump supporter but will admit I have a sneaking admiration for Bernie's style (and his honesty and lack of focus-group testing when touting his planned programs).
Yeah, I agree. I respect Bernie. He may be a loon, but he appears to really believe what he is saying. He is principled. Which most of the rest of the Democrat field certainly is not.
It appears that the Democrats are getting ready to go into a debating frenzy once we get into the new year. The DNC announced today four more debates, on January 14, and then February 7, 19 and 25.
Is anyone interested in watching any more of these debates? Is anyone interested in watching four more debates over a six week period? Hmmm.
The first of the early voting state debates will take place on Jan. 14 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. CNN and the Des Moines Register will serve as media partners. Iowa’s Feb. 3 caucuses kick off the nominating calendar. The next debate will be held Feb. 7 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., with ABC News, local TV station WMUR, and Apple News as media partners. New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary will be held on Feb. 11.
Twelve days later, the DNC will hold a debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, in partnership with NBC News, MSNBC, and the Nevada Independent. The Feb. 19 debate will be held three days before the state’s presidential caucuses. The final early voting state debate will be held on Feb. 25, in Charleston, S.C., four days before the state’s primary. CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute are partnering with the DNC for the debate.
Of course it may be that some of the candidates who are Senators will not participate in some of these debates, depending on if and when an impeachment trial is conducted in the Senate.
The lesson Johnson offers to Democrats by drubbing Corbyn and Labour is that if you opt for cool, global, woke attitudinizing, and couple these to unrealistic and unpopular policies, you will be sent packing by voters. Kamala Harris learned, to her cost, that the Twitter crowd isn't where political power really lies. Democrats can keep pretending that mass illegal immigration is a wonderful thing and that America must adopt all the crazy -isms of the progressive Left.
But if they do, Trump will be laughing all the way to a second term. Just as Johnson is laughing all the way to 10 Downing St. right now.
It appears that the Democrats are getting ready to go into a debating frenzy once we get into the new year. The DNC announced today four more debates, on January 14, and then February 7, 19 and 25.
Is anyone interested in watching any more of these debates? Is anyone interested in watching four more debates over a six week period? Hmmm.
Of course it may be that some of the candidates who are Senators will not participate in some of these debates, depending on if and when an impeachment trial is conducted in the Senate.
I am! I love watching Joe Biden to see what goofy thing he will say next.
Yeah, I agree. I respect Bernie. He may be a loon, but he appears to really believe what he is saying. He is principled. Which most of the rest of the Democrat field certainly is not.
I sure do not know how you can say that. I think most of the Democratic field IS principled. What exactly are you speaking of?
I sure do not know how you can say that. I think most of the Democratic field IS principled. What exactly are you speaking of?
Not answering for him... but the way I see it, Bernie has been the same person his entire life. He never had to or wanted to re-created himself or change, because of a poll... unlike most politicians.
So he gets some acknowledgement/respect for that... however he still an old combative socialist who would be perfectly happy with a communist society.
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