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'Our strongest candidate': House Democrats are sticking with Biden in 2024
NBC News / Comcast ^ | March 3, 2023 | By Scott Wong

Posted on 03/03/2023 9:57:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

BALTIMORE — Three years ago, the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, threw her support behind liberal icon Bernie Sanders for president while questioning Joe Biden’s progressive credentials.

This week, at the House Democrats’ annual retreat, Jayapal stood before a bank of TV cameras and declared Biden the “most progressive president that we’ve had in a long time.”

“I would like to see him announce sooner,” Jayapal, of Washington, later said of his 2024 re-election bid.

But at a three-day gathering of House Democrats at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor this week, Democrats from every corner of the party — progressives and moderates alike, leadership and rank-and-file members — said they were sticking with Joe in 2024.

“Biden will kill both of them,” progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York said of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a viral exchange with Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on the steps of the Capitol this week. “Biden passed three bipartisan pieces of legislation after an insurrection during a global pandemic, opened back up the schools — killin’ the game!”

“Nobody’s surprised that Biden was not my choice in the first election for the primary. But the CPC and the president and his administration have formed an incredibly strong partnership,” Jayapal said. “They have been very respectful of both our power and our ability to deliver the votes that they need, but also our ideas."

“This was the president’s progressive agenda that we were pushing for," she continued, "and he has told me and he’s told us as a caucus, time and time again, that he’s grateful for us having his back.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bide; biden; election2024

1 posted on 03/03/2023 9:57:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I agree he is their strongest candidate. Does this speak well for the Democratic Party? I don’t think so.


2 posted on 03/03/2023 10:02:22 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
'Our strongest candidate': House Democrats...

Probably true.

3 posted on 03/03/2023 10:03:13 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Go for it.


4 posted on 03/03/2023 10:03:54 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“I would like to see him announce sooner,” Jayapal, of Washington, later said of his 2024 re-election bid.

Me too, he will be their weakest candidate by far.

5 posted on 03/03/2023 10:04:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course.


6 posted on 03/03/2023 10:06:06 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They don’t need to stick by him. The Dung Beetle “media” will continue to praise the old bass turd and ensure that he is reelected. He’s their boy now. The crooked retard can do no wrong. (If it’s not dementia, it has to be that he’s retarded). He’s spending every penny America has or will ever have for a long time. Right down the urinalists’ alley. They love him to death. He’s their uncle Joe. Their shower buddy.


7 posted on 03/03/2023 10:06:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Biden will kill both of them” — progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York

They have invented a hundred new ways to steal the election.


8 posted on 03/03/2023 10:15:21 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Progressive” is fast becoming a pejorative term, as it apparently does not confer any kind of benefit on society as a whole. Mostly, “progressive” policies are a means to herd the great mass of humanity into a sort of holding pen, for the selection of specific characteristics and traits that go directly to the personal exaltation of a self-appointed oligarchy which has chosen to set themselves up as the “authority” on how people are supposed to think. Failure to conform is treated with harsh discipline, while lapses that work to the advantage of the oligarchy are overlooked or even encouraged.

“Progressive” does not work as a system of governance without the presence of jackbooted thugs to enforce the edicts handed down. Law, and freedom under the law, are suspended altogether.


9 posted on 03/03/2023 10:15:26 AM PST by alloysteel (Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I BE THE BEST THAT THE 'RATS HAVE!


10 posted on 03/03/2023 10:16:14 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, but he has dementia!

Biden is a FRAUD right from his university days. He is an actor who puts it on thick, like walking around in a daze, looking bewildered, etc. He should win the Edward Norton prize for imitating dementia. His big tell or give away is that he can read a script for hours. If he had brain impairment he couldn’t do that. People are gullible and want to feel sorry for the man. (start the violins) To see him that way tugs on their emotions, and they don’t think straight. They just want to feel good. That’s basically what the Democrats are about: feeling good! Reality can screw itself – they don’t care – they just want to feel good. It’s why symbolism is so important to them – because it makes them feel good and virtuous. So, Biden has cashed in on this scam and plays it up. Even Republicans fall for this nonsense.

If Biden was really next to brain dead he wouldn’t be getting money from Hunter. He wouldn’t be “the BIG GUY.” It’s all an act from a story teller, a liar, and deceiver who has been doing it for years. It is part of his grift, his corruption. He’s doing the long con for years and has built up a lucrative family. If he was really sick he would be gone... in other words, he is play Don Corleone pretending to have a heart attack.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 10:24:48 AM PST by BEJ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He might get enough ballots mailed in from the cemeteries to win.


12 posted on 03/03/2023 10:29:51 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Steely Tom
Doesn't matter who the candidate is...It's about getting out the vote, and being very selective as to the counties. Effectively, they beat the electoral college framework.

Frankly, I think Newsome would do even better.

13 posted on 03/03/2023 10:40:30 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Politicians are like Christmas trees. You elect the tree but get all the ornaments whether you want them or not.

In Biden, the Dems know they can place a lot of far left “ornaments” in high places. And Joe won’t have a clue.

The ideal “christmas tree”


14 posted on 03/03/2023 10:42:06 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: proxy_user
I agree he is their strongest candidate. Does this speak well for the Democratic Party? I don’t think so.

Democrats no longer have anything to fear with regard to elections, thanks to RINO-controlled state legislatures that allowed no-excuse mail-in ballots and drop-boxes and refused to investigate any of the Dominion machines. PA and MI are now lost for at least a generation. The two Senate spots in GA are lost, while the governor/SoS are RINO traitors who have done a dirty Dominion deal to keep their cushy state jobs. The AZ legislature only has a 1 seat republican majority, while the governorship/SoS/AG and Congressional Senate seat were stolen in 2022 in broad daylight.

Rush Limbaugh said that Democrats would turn America into a totalitarian society if they could just figure out a way not to have elections any more. Looks like they are just about there, and it was handed to them on a plate by RINO-controlled state legislatures who wanted to get rid of Trump in 2020, and then subsequently sabotage the elections of MAGA candidates both in the primaries and the general in 2022. They were happy for Democrats to steal elections if it meant MAGA was defeated.

15 posted on 03/03/2023 10:51:15 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They want a figurehead that will follow orders. It’s becoming a pattern; look at Fetterman and the ditz who’s running Arizona. They’re all just sock puppets being given their orders from the Great Reset moguls.


16 posted on 03/03/2023 10:54:36 AM PST by Spok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The democommies are relying wholly on their well constructed fraud machine...still not only alive and well, but robust! Take a look at AZ, Fetterman, GA. That’s their ace up the sleeve!...supported by RINO criminal traitors. They could elect one of Joe’s ice cream cones! What’s gonna stop them???


17 posted on 03/03/2023 11:49:41 AM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He could keel over between now and then.


18 posted on 03/03/2023 12:57:10 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: proxy_user

“Good ol’ Joe.” “The Elder Statesman” “A Steady Hand”

It may make us want to puke - but that’s how he is going to be painted...ranging from soft to triumphant music, grateful looking people, etc. Same sort of thing they blanketed the nation with in 2020 - unfortunately a message that went completely uncontested on many networks.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 7:25:16 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Partisan Media Shill regurg's DNC talking point.

20 posted on 03/04/2023 7:44:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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