GOP senator: Biden would have beat Trump

The Hill ^ | April 5, 2017 | Mark Hensch

[thorvaldr]

Biden is a joke. He might be more electable than Hillary, but so are a dead dog and a rabid skunk. He’s still a joke.

[HarleyLady27]

Na Na Na La La...WE WON, you lost, and We, the American Voters that supports President Trump will win AGAIN...Na, na, na, La La...(doing skippy dance)!!!

[Lurkinanloomin]

I tend to not agree with the Cheap Labor Express mouthpiece Medved on anything.

No other candidate of those running would have beaten Hillary.

It’s possible that another Democrat might have beaten Trump, but the Democrats rigged their primary for Hillary, so we’ll never know.

[Louis Foxwell]

I believe Trump would have enjoyed the harassment and teasing at Biden’s expense. Slo Jo would have been reduced to a quivering mass of ectoplasm.

[dhs12345]

With all of the MSM propaganda and slanting of the news in Hillarys favor, I actually thought that she had won and was dreading life under Hillary.

Then it happened and in spite all of the MSM effort, Trump won.

So their wish and hoping and hoping and wishing didn't pan out for Hillary and their track record for predictions is very poor.

[skyman]

Wasn’t his nickname Crazy Uncle Joe because of all the crazy stuff he said?

As soon as Obama told him to shut up he stopped talking and when he did he somehow became a great politician, leader and candidate if he would have run.

[DarthVader]

Hey Bennie boy!! You will be primaried and you will lose!

[RummyChick]

Biden wiped the floor with Ryan in that debate.

It is quite possible that Bernie or Joe could have beaten Trump

So what..let them bake that into their bad decision DNC cake.

[shotgun]

We’ll maybe he should have got off his dumb ass and ran, otherwise this is a moot point.

[Blue Jays]

Agreed. The very moment that "Harvard and Yale" are spotted in his background, he instantly became suspect.

[grania]

I suspect that Senator Sasse is correct. PA was close. During the campaign Wilkes-Barre and Scranton (as an example) were a sea of Trump signs. That's high-density Biden territory. In OH, a lot of the towns around here that went, some overwhelmingly, for Trump, were Kucinich territory before the district was shattered into tiny pieces. They would've stayed with Biden. hillary alienated a lot of that population with her obscene pandering to inner city blacks. Then there's the Amish, police/security, mining in MI, OH, WV, PA. Biden's message to them was not as hostile as is hillary's.

Winning all those states created the massive victory. We do ourselves a disservice if we don't recognize that hillary is a major reason that Trump won. Why? A sane dem (there are some) could get that vote back.

[bkrdoug]

WHEN are these IDIOTS going to realize that——if they go 30mph-DONALD goes 40mph——————IF they jump 10ft.-DONALD jumps 15ft.-———IF DONALD says something—BELIEVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-—these IDIOTS are foolish ,ignorant, SMALL PEOPLE!!———————HOW LONG will it take????

[Defiant]

How soon can we get rid of this Jacksasse?

[Bringbackthedraft]

Biden is perfect for Liberals, he lacks the bearing of a leader, and has just enough brains to be a Liberal Genius, like the majority of their supporters on the left side of the bell curve. If elected, it would have been more liberal stagnation and deeper in debt.

[TXSearcher]

Sasse, I generally like you.....but if you really said this, I respond with "quit being a crap dog".

Whether Trump was "your pick" or not, we have a chance to correct some of the garbage Obama did to our country.

Man up, shut up and get to work.

[tennmountainman]

Good points.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Ol’ hairplugs would never have made it out of the primaries LOL. Stage was set for pantsuit. The whole nomination was rigged in her favor since the DNC was crawling with ready-for-Hillary hags. Wikileaks proved that to the world.

[pepsi_junkie]

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.

100% disagree that any GOP candidate would have won. Trump took Wisconsin, PA, Ohio, Michigan. Who was going to win those, Jeb? Cruz? No way. They were won because there is a constituency in those states that was desperate for someone to say what they felt, that there was an entrenched establishment in DC that had abandoned them on BOTH sides of the aisle. Both parties are for unchecked illegal immigration, both are for big job killing trade agreements. Only one GOP candidate had a message that spoke to them and made them take a chance. Carly Fiorina or Rand Paul would never have made that case. Kasich might have gotten Ohio but his "hey I'm an adult and I know we have to capitulate to democrats to get things done, vote for me!" argument sure wouldn't have.

And if the path wasn't through PA, WI, MI, OH then where was "any GOP candidate" going to get their win?

[Sidebar Moderator]

As for Sasse, once a NeverTrump asswipe, always a NeverTrump asswipe.

[Ingtar]

If nothing else, Trump would have humiliated Biden so badly in the first debate that the Democrats would have done their best to kill the other two debates.