Posted on 04/05/2017 9:47:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) says former Vice President Joe Biden could have easily defeated President Trump if he'd run for president last year.
“If Joe Biden would have run against Donald Trump, Biden would have won in a landslide,” Sasse told The New York Times on Wednesday.
Asked why Trump won, Sasse said: “I would argue pretty vociferously that’s it’s also because of who his opponent was,” referring to Hillary Clinton.
Biden last month voiced regret over not seeking the presidency, predicting he would have beaten Trump if he had earned the Democratic nomination.
“I had planned on running for president and although it would have been a very difficult primary, I think I could have won,” he said during a speech at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. "I don’t know, maybe not. But I thought I could have won.”
“I had a lot of data and I was fairly confident that if I were the Democratic Party’s nominee, I had a better chance than ever of being president. But do I regret not being president? Yes. I was the best qualified."
Biden noted he lost “part of my soul” following the death of his son Beau in May 2015 to brain cancer.
He said he could not devote his full attention to a presidential campaign while also supporting his family.
Hillary was supposed to have won in a landslide too, Ben, until she didn’t.
Another numbskull opens his mouth.
Woulda Shoulda.....he didnt so dream on Never Trumper.
Hey Nebraska. Fix this.
I agree that Biden may have beaten Trump then, but it is not proper for the soon to be primaried GOP Senator to talk like that.
I don’t think so Sasse, you f’n idiot. People were tired of democrat tyranny.
Sasse is a moron.
Ben Sasse is SUCH a disappointment!
It would have been fun to watch after the Billy Bush fiasco, Trump take apart Slow-Jo for molesting Ash Carter’s Wife and others on stage.
Dumb Bells like this is why the Republicans are doomed to stupidity.
Sasse is a tedious, pretentious Trump hating stuffed shirt.
He is the Senate version of Egg McMuffin who ran that hopeless campaign against Trump and couldn’t even win Utah.
As for Biden, it would have been lovely to see him run. He wouldn’t have won the nomination but he and Hillary could have had a nice blood-letting. IF he had somehow been nominated I doubt he would have beaten Trump. The Donald would have thrashed his hide good.
Sasse is a moron.
Not really. He’s a virtue signalling and climbing careerist. And a crafty one at that. The way he dresses up his naked personal ambition in conservatism is nauseating.
I tend to agree with Michael Medved on this one: Trump is the only candidate that can’t beat Trump and Trump is the only candidate that can’t beat Hillary.
What he was basically saying was that pretty much any of the other R’s would have been able to beat Hillary and pretty much any other democrat could have beat Trump.
Generally speaking, I tend to agree.
I wonder????
Is Sass taunting Biden, encouraging an idiot to throw his hat in the ring?
Or is Sass the idiot?
“Hey Nebraska. Fix this.”
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Yeah. Sorry about this. We’ll take care of him next election. We keep trying to get good conservative people, but they keep disappointing.
Extreme dumbarse never Trumper alert.
Just what the country needed, another Ivy League educated republicrat senator. I personally believe that Trump would have destroyed the breathtakingly stupid and very creepy Biden.
Sasse was and apparently is a never Trumper. He can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
Nebraska has a lot of company when it comes to fixing their Senate representation.
TN: Alexander and Corker
SC: Graham
AZ: McCain and Flake
UT: Hatch
FL: Rubio
ND: Hoeven
NV: Heller
AK: Murkowsky
All of these Senators voted for the Gang of Amnesty bill.
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