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Joe Biden Should Announce Right Now That He’s Running in 2020
The Daily Beast ^ | June 27, 2017 | Mark McKinnon

Posted on 06/27/2017 7:36:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Biden should announce he’s running for president in 2020. Right now.

Democrats need a singular voice representing the party. And as we saw in the recent Georgia special congressional election, that voice should not be Nancy Pelosi.

Cut the coy. Cut the Mario Cuomo routine. Just throw down Joe. You know you want to.

If you announce now, the next two years become a debate between you and Donald Trump. You become the shadow president.

You’ve earned it. You deserve it. You regret you didn’t run last time. Because you’d probably be president right now. Beating Hillary in the primary would have been tough, but if you had, you sure as hell would have had a compelling economic message in the general election in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin for those lunch bucket voters you know so well. And, therefore, would have won.

Every elected Democrat with an ounce of ambition is positioning themselves to run. But it's just creating 100 Davids against the one Goliath in DC. There is a lot of potential talent coming up through the ranks, but if you’ve got an old Babe Ruth hanging around the locker room, put him on the field. More importantly, a Biden candidacy now could eliminate, at least temporarily, the emerging rift between progressives and centrists. Biden has respect and credibility from both camps. And he could keep that fight from spilling over into a civil war that could kill chances for 2018 and 2020.

Democrats need a Goliath of their own to focus and dominate the message. And Joe, you’re it.....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; biden; biden2020; democrats; trump
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1 posted on 06/27/2017 7:36:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[You become the shadow president.]

Unfortunately, we already have a ‘shadow’ president.


2 posted on 06/27/2017 7:39:38 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This assumes he’ll still be consuming oxygen by then.


3 posted on 06/27/2017 7:41:06 PM PDT by McGruff (If you tell a lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mark McKinnon - consultant for W Bush and McCain. All you need to know.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 7:41:27 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’ll need all me plugs!


5 posted on 06/27/2017 7:42:05 PM PDT by albie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’d be 78.

2016 was his last chance.


6 posted on 06/27/2017 7:43:58 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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7 posted on 06/27/2017 7:44:17 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slow Joe-Mentum.

8 posted on 06/27/2017 7:45:02 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A little late for an April Fools story


9 posted on 06/27/2017 7:47:32 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: MuttTheHoople

That’s right, you idiot liberal leftists...

First, you ran one of the biggest criminals in politics, now you want to run the village idiot who says for “personal protection” you should just shoot through your door with a shotgun...


10 posted on 06/27/2017 7:49:47 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Run, Run slow joe. Idiots will vote 4 U.


11 posted on 06/27/2017 7:54:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Couldn’t take another 3 1/2 yrs. of Slow Joe mourning his dead son and necessarily having the Marxist Stream Media enjoining us to “Go For Slow Joe” in ‘20.


12 posted on 06/27/2017 7:55:36 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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Trump should be so lucky to run against Joe “Bite Me” Biden.

It would be like Mondale vs Reagan.


13 posted on 06/27/2017 7:57:57 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittanc)
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He’s probably the smartest Democrat they’ve got.

And the fact that he’ll be almost 80 years old on inauguration day 2020 will be a big advantage.


14 posted on 06/27/2017 7:59:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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He will turn 78 a couple of weeks after election day in 2020. Crazy uncles don’t become less crazy as they get older. Go ahead, Joe, run!


15 posted on 06/27/2017 7:59:51 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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Because millennials so identify with someone who would turn 80 the following year after his inauguration.


16 posted on 06/27/2017 7:59:54 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

And who knows what turn that icky situation with his son and his deceased son’s widow is going to take in the next 3 1/2 years.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 8:00:42 PM PDT by CaptainK (No collusion.No obstruction.He's a leaker.)
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Good ole Joe has taken one to many punches to the head.

He was just Obama's insurance policy against impeachment.

Hi use by date is long past. But hey, go for it. Some people just can't give up the spotlight and adulation.

18 posted on 06/27/2017 8:00:45 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: stars & stripes forever

No, Pelosi is still the Democrat House leader...Biden announcing a run this early will get about as much play as when Cruz announced that I-Carla was his running mate - meaning a chuckle and that’s about all.


19 posted on 06/27/2017 8:00:52 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: MuttTheHoople

At his age, he won’t be running, maybe shuffling to the 7-11 to speak in make-shift SinGlish to some Singaporean trying to earn a buck or two. He was a jerk 10 years ago, he’s a bigger jerk now.


20 posted on 06/27/2017 8:00:59 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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