Posted on 03/25/2020 6:33:45 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Democrats are publicly talking about contingency options for their July convention in Milwaukee in case the coronavirus persists in being a public-health threat. But privately, some are also talking about needing a Plan B if Joe Biden, their nominee apparent, continues to flounder.
Some Democrats are openly talking up New York governor Andrew Cuomo, whose profile has soared during the crisis, as a Biden stand-in. Yesterday, a Draft Cuomo 2020 account on Twitter announced that Times have changed & we need Gov. Cuomo to be the nominee. Our next POTUS must be one w/an ability to lead thru this crisis.
Charles Pierce, the politics blogger for Esquire magazine, wrote a piece headlined With Two Words, Andrew Cuomo Established Himself as the Leader This Country Needs Now.
Lloyd Constantine, who was a senior policy adviser to New York governor Eliot Spitzer from 2007 to 2008, puts it bluntly: Biden is a melting ice cube. Those of us who have closely watched as time ravaged the once sharp or even brilliant minds of loved ones and colleagues, recognize what is happening to the good soldier Joe.
Indeed, Biden seemed to disappear when the virus began dominating the news cycle early in March. Bidens media presence abruptly shriveled, writes Kalev Leetaru, a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. In contrast, daily mentions of Cuomo as of last Sunday accounted for 1.4 percent of online news coverage compared with 2.9 percent for Trump.
In an attempt to remain relevant, Bidens campaign team hastily built a TV studio in the basement of his Wilmington, Del., home and began streaming daily appearances by him from it this week. They have not gone well.
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Biden has 1,215 party delegates so far.
Bernie has 910.
It’s gonna be real hard for Dems of any persuasion to stand there at the Convention and pretend Bernie doesn’t exist, much less have a right to the nomination when Biden falters into oblivion. “Gee, Biden can’t run ... who, oh who, could possibly charge in and save our party? is there nobody with significant & consistent support? pity all the candidates have dropped out ...”
Popcorn?
DNC Superdelegates are still hanging around. The only thing is that this time around they cant vote in the first round in contested convention. But the odds of Biden being the nominee at the convention are probably very low right now.
They just have to follow the rules. If Biden doesn’t get 1991 delegates on the first round of voting, all the delegate will be freed to choose Cuomo, etc.
If you think Fredo’s bro messed up NYC, you should see Upstate.
With everyone else out and Biden fading fast, Sanders has a real chance to lock up the nomination on the first ballot, doesn't he?
Fair disclosure: I don't know how many delegates short he is, or how many there are left to win...
Also the guy who had a chance to buy ventilators back in 2015, but instead spent the money and other useless things like solar panels.
Draft Cuomo movement being manufactured by the DNC.
Wait until the Midwest sees his record in New York. Hes worse than Bloomberg.
He’s far worse than Bloomberg. That bail reform law is such a fiasco that even de Blasio has said it needs to be modified to allow judges to hold suspects. Then we have the sanctuary policies, the explosion of Medicaid spending, the insane taxes, and the regulations that drove the business out of the state.
If I had to choose between Biden and Cuomo, I’d take Biden. Cuomo is that bad.
The only movement building is the one coming out their ass.
Cuomo - The Littlest Fascist.
I knew this was coming.
Cuomo came in with the London bookies a little further today...100/1 shot yesterday...50/1 this morning and 33/1 tonight...Fredo must have laid down 200K...
They tried to draft his dad in 1967 but the coward pulled family strings to get out of it.
Well of course!
who else ?
Why and when is someone gonna blame him for not buying the 13000 ventilators the CDC recommended two years ago?
You mean ‘MAMA MEA - The sky is falling’ - CUOMO?
Not after the first ballot. The DNC might now have Bernie stay in so that Biden doesn't get the required number of delegates needed for a first ballot clinch. Then on the second ballot, Cuomo gets drafted. I have to wonder if this is now the game plan.
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