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‘Weaker candidate than Hillary’: Democrats cast deep doubt on Biden’s 2020 value
McClatchy DC Bureau ^ | February 11, 2019 05:00 AM | Alex Roarty

Posted on 02/12/2019 8:13:31 AM PST by Olog-hai

Joe Biden is everything a Democratic political consultant should love: He’s experienced, well-liked, and his poll numbers look great against Donald Trump.

And yet many party strategists have a bleak assessment of his potential 2020 campaign: It’s a bad, bad idea. […]

McClatchy interviewed 31 Democratic strategists — pollsters, opposition research experts, media consultants, ex-party officials, and communications specialists — from across the country about a potential Biden campaign. Nine agreed to speak on the record; all others quoted anonymously do not plan to be affiliated with any candidate running in the presidential primary.

Strikingly, these conversations yielded a similar view: The Democratic political community is more broadly and deeply pessimistic about Biden’s potential candidacy than is commonly known. While these strategists said they respect Biden, they cited significant disadvantages for his campaign — from the increasingly liberal and non-white Democratic electorate to policy baggage from his years in the Senate and a field of rivals that includes new, fresh-faced candidates. …

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; creepyjoe; fakenews; fakepolls; hillary; plugs; slowjoe; socialism
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1 posted on 02/12/2019 8:13:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

OLD and WHITE are DEAL BREAKERS in AOC’s Democrat Socialist Party.


2 posted on 02/12/2019 8:16:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

“....He’s experienced, well-liked,....”. I’d be willing to bet there are a lot of ladies who might disagree with that. Photos in 3,.....2,....


3 posted on 02/12/2019 8:16:41 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t know.

Hillary was the weakest candidate I ever saw.

She’s so out of shape that they had to toss her into her van like she was a sack of old bats.


4 posted on 02/12/2019 8:17:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Olog-hai

He will be 78 next year. He’s an old line Democrat, he’s a white heterosexual male. He’s probably perceived as not being radical enough for today’s Democrats.

He’s just not going to excite the radical Democrats of today.


5 posted on 02/12/2019 8:17:47 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai

Now there are hit pieces on Biden. Lol. It is so obvious that Soros has selected the ignorant slut Camel Harris as his chosen one and he has instructed the media to toe the line.


6 posted on 02/12/2019 8:18:42 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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Democrat, Joe Biden is a 100% “ZERO”. He always has been a low life zero and he always will be...Mr. Biden is simply, dumb, dumber & dumbest...period.

Anyone that even considers Biden as POTUS “material” and would cast their vote for him is either stoned with smoking too much reefer, drinking too much alcohol or is simply totally insane.


7 posted on 02/12/2019 8:18:58 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Biden is an ass, but when he was a U.S. senator he had a reputation for going to bat for his constituents. If the economic and political climate are “right” (meaning they both suck for average people) I think he’d have a fair chance of getting elected.


8 posted on 02/12/2019 8:19:26 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: blueunicorn6

Baseball bats or vampire bats?


9 posted on 02/12/2019 8:19:30 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: rktman

You just know that there is a #metoo in this guy’s closet. Not to mention a lot of his “colorful” statements will be brought up.

And one of DemAOCrats will spring it in the primaries.


10 posted on 02/12/2019 8:20:32 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Olog-hai
"fresh-faced candidates" -- Snort...

Mustn't forget the freshest face of all dedicated to stopping global warming...

But then, I "snorted" all the way to November 2008, too.

11 posted on 02/12/2019 8:21:05 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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The article neglects to mention that he emits a serious gaffe every other paragraph. State-run media would have to run cover for him every speech or public appearance, or tie him rigidly to a teleprompter. They’d need to control him as a mouthpiece for the real writers.

He frequently sounds like he’s had major brain surgery a few times.


12 posted on 02/12/2019 8:21:09 AM PST by DBrow
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Anyone that even considers Biden as POTUS “material” and would cast their vote for him is either stoned with smoking too much reefer, drinking too much alcohol or is simply totally insane.

I recall early in 2008 someone telling me there was NO WAY a person with the name "Barack Hussein Obama" would be elected President of the United States. And I believed him.

13 posted on 02/12/2019 8:21:13 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Olog-hai

Biden 2020!

Because what America needs is somebody’s crazy, old pervert Uncle running the show!


14 posted on 02/12/2019 8:21:31 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Against Trump? Think again.

Remember, Reagan swam upstream against Democratic Congresses and won with his agenda.


15 posted on 02/12/2019 8:22:02 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There’s no “probably” about it. The radical leftists are taking over.


16 posted on 02/12/2019 8:23:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Mr. Biden is simply, dumb, dumber & dumbest...period.

So many of us said the same thing about an empty suit who gave the keynote at the 2004 DNC Convention and then announced February 10, 2007. At least he was young then.

17 posted on 02/12/2019 8:25:35 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Obama won with the help of the RINOs that ran against him, never mind the RINO that preceded him.


18 posted on 02/12/2019 8:26:25 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

they are admitting that Hillary is a weak candidate ?
She really is the best of what they got...


19 posted on 02/12/2019 8:26:50 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Olog-hai

Will they attack each other or just Trump ,LOL


20 posted on 02/12/2019 8:27:12 AM PST by butlerweave
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