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Newsweek: Joe Biden Can Beat Trump in 2020, but Will the Democratic Party Let Him Run? (LOL Alert)
Newsweek ^ | December 27, 2017 | Matthew Cooper

Posted on 12/27/2017 3:17:07 PM PST by Zakeet

Biden spoke poignantly about [family tragedies] during his recent cross-country book tour. And inevitably, he’d be asked about the 2020 election. That’s what happened on a crisp night in November, when almost 2,000 people piled into Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theatre. "I haven’t decided to run," he insisted, but the implication was clear: He hasn’t decided not to run.

This wiggle room encourages all those who believe Biden could thump Donald Trump. And he certainly has the résumé: After 36 years in the Senate and two terms in the White House alongside Obama, he knows how to get things done in D.C.—from pushing the Clinton administration to get more involved in the Balkans wars in the ’90s to spearheading the massive stimulus program under Obama after the 2008 financial crisis. Yet Biden’s greatest strength - his experience in the Capitol - could be his greatest weakness for Democrats. With anti-establishment fever still burning all over the country, progressives like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts seem to be the ones energizing the party.

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The former veep might have beaten Trump in 2016, and he might beat him in 2020 - if he gets that far. Biden is well liked by most liberals - he championed the nation’s first black president and came out for gay marriage ahead of Obama and both Clintons. But compared with Warren and others, he may seem too moderate, too establishment, too white and maybe too old (he’s now 75) to mount a bid in 2020. And if he runs, his progressive rivals will pore over a half-century-long paper trail and inevitably find plenty with which to bludgeon him during the primaries.

America may want him to run, but do the Democrats?

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; democrats; fakenews; joebiden; liberalism
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“If he runs in 2020, he’s the Designated Loser so they don’t waste a good candidate.”

If he did, he’d be almost 80 years old when he took office. That’s the ticket, he could have wheelchair races in the White Hut.


21 posted on 12/27/2017 3:40:22 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Zakeet
Wait, wait ya'll. Hillary has everything it takes to beat Trump in 2020.

Right?

22 posted on 12/27/2017 3:47:10 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkey - A Polish saying that means I ain't got a dog in this hunt.)
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To: Zakeet

Run Joe! RRRUUUNNN!!!


23 posted on 12/27/2017 3:47:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Zakeet

The #metoo has shot any chance he might have had. There would be endless replays of the numerous times he has groped women and young girls.


24 posted on 12/27/2017 3:47:35 PM PST by sageburn
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To: Zakeet

The rational for Joe's candidacy: "Insane times call for an insane president!"

Would President Joe drop the age of consent to 7 years of age?

Stop Licking My Daughter, You Pervert!


25 posted on 12/27/2017 3:49:04 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Remember That Diversity Is The Opposite Of Unity.)
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To: vette6387

Plugs For President!!

I like it, no I LOVE it!


26 posted on 12/27/2017 3:49:28 PM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: Zakeet
He might have won in 2016.

I can't see anybody getting excited about him in 2020.

Dragging himself across the finish line would take away whatever vigor Joe still has.

And it would be hard to construct appealing illusions around what we know of Joe Biden.

He would be the candidate of exhaustion -- yesterday's man.

That actually worked for Richard Nixon when he had his comeback, but it took Nixon eight years and he was a much younger man then than Biden is today.

27 posted on 12/27/2017 3:49:54 PM PST by x
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To: Zakeet

"Should I run?"
"Touch me again and you'll be flying."

28 posted on 12/27/2017 3:51:49 PM PST by sparklite2 (Read the Sparklite Times -- neither here nor there but mostly there.)
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To: Zakeet

This article was absolutely written by the Biden team. It is way too obvious. This sounds exactly like the pieces we saw on Obama.


29 posted on 12/27/2017 3:52:53 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Zakeet

I can hardly wait to see Trump take on huggy Joe Biden.


30 posted on 12/27/2017 3:53:42 PM PST by amihow
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To: Zakeet

Joe Biden is Obama light. Pun intended. Class one DC criminal.


31 posted on 12/27/2017 3:53:52 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Zakeet

Newswank


32 posted on 12/27/2017 3:55:54 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: McGruff

This should automatically disqualify him. Otherwise, the Democrats are hypocrites.


33 posted on 12/27/2017 3:58:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: ctdonath2

It isn’t just the groping. There is a history of plagiarism and telling lies about the truck drive in the accident that killed his wife and child. Then you get to how how made his money. I mean Congressional pay is ok but he is now wealthy having been a senator his whole life.


34 posted on 12/27/2017 3:59:22 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Ueriah

The magazine the printed Madam president huh?


35 posted on 12/27/2017 4:02:05 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: x

Also Nixon didn’t have 3 or 4 very invasive brain surgeries!

Which if one was truly a serious voter (and Rats aren’t!) should really give one pause as to whether handing that kind of authority over to Biden is a good idea!


36 posted on 12/27/2017 4:02:47 PM PST by Reily
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To: Zakeet

Another Insider part of the establishment with years of experience as a bureaucrat just with the people want.. clearly lol


37 posted on 12/27/2017 4:03:17 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: sparklite2


"Should I be running?"
"You're about to go flying."

38 posted on 12/27/2017 4:03:55 PM PST by sparklite2 (Read the Sparklite Times -- neither here nor there but mostly there.)
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To: amihow

Joe Bite’em would run for the office and spend all of his money and run the risk of a heart attack and destroy his family, just to get a chance during the 2020 campaign to grope Melania. During some kind of weird photo-op.


39 posted on 12/27/2017 4:11:06 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: Zakeet
Just keep putting out pics of creepy uncle joe getting "hands on" with ladies 8-80, blind, crippled or crazy. In today's (finally) atmosphere he ought to be eligible for the chair. 🙀
40 posted on 12/27/2017 4:11:48 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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