There is a name not on the list that is behind the push for Joe to bail out...."She thought she couldn't lose" and now feels OWED the position.
Posted on 07/01/2024 7:05:29 PM PDT by Libloather
President Biden’s campaign is intensely trying to quell speculation that he may drop out of the 2024 race following his lackluster debate performance last week.
Most top Democrats have voiced support for Biden continuing in the race, while members of his family, including first lady Jill Biden, have declared they also want him to remain a candidate, casting doubt on the potential for replacing Biden.
But if Biden were to step aside, several prominent Democrats could be waiting in the wings as possible successors.
Here are the top possible Biden replacements:
Kamala Harris
Gavin Newsom
Gretchen Whitmer
Pete Buttigieg
Josh Shapiro
JB Pritzker
Andy Beshear
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Bootyjudge and Shapiro will not get enough of the African American vote
wi no primary, no contenders wi name recognition, they made their bed...
How about Farfel the Dog?
Man’s best friend.
He’s stickin it out.
His father was big in KY politics.
Before Biden's disastrous debate, Beshear was being touted as a serious 2028 candidate.
Yes. Experienced. Rested. More mental capacity and vitality than Biden.
But not Big Bad Mike?
AND he would be the first centenarian to hold the office.
I opened this thread for the comedy and I was not disappointed.
When I read this title the image that came instantly into my mind was 7 pieces of fecal matter floating in a toilet. And the more I think about it the more appropriate the image seems.
I know. When they are ready to get rid of Biden. They will. Until then, he stays. Regardless of what the Political Sages pontificate.
WIKI
Andrew Graham Beshear (born November 29, 1977) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd governor of Kentucky since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of former Governor Steve Beshear.
In 2005, Beshear was hired by the law firm Stites & Harbison, at which his father was a partner. He represented the developers of the Bluegrass Pipeline, which would have transported natural gas liquid through Kentucky. The project was controversial; critics voiced environmental concerns and objections to the use of eminent domain for the pipeline. His father’s office maintained that there was no conflict of interest with the son’s representation. Beshear also represented the Indian company UFLEX, which sought $20 million in tax breaks from his father’s administration, drawing criticism from ethics watchdogs over a potential conflict of interest.
In April 2020, Beshear ordered Kentucky state troopers to record the license plate numbers of churchgoers who violated the state’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order to attend in-person Easter Sunday church services.
In June 2020, Beshear promised to provide free health care to all African-American residents of Kentucky who need it, in an attempt to resolve health care inequities that came to light during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On November 18, 2020, as the state’s COVID-19 cases continued to increase, Beshear ordered Kentucky’s public and private schools to halt in-person learning on November 23, with in-person classes to resume in January 2021.
Beshear is opposed to all charter schools in Kentucky, saying “schools run by corporations are not public schools.”
Upon taking office, Beshear replaced all 11 members of the Kentucky Board of Education before the end of their two-year terms.
Beshear supports legalizing casino gambling, sports betting, fantasy sports betting, and online poker betting in Kentucky.
Beshear said he would not support an assault weapons ban. He said he would instead support a red flag law authorizing courts to allow police to temporarily confiscate firearms from people a judge deemed a danger to themselves or others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear
WIKI
Shapiro ran for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2022 election. He ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and defeated Republican nominee Doug Mastriano in the general election by a 14.8 percent margin.
Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973, in Kansas City, Missouri, to a father serving in the Navy as a medical officer, and was raised in Dresher, a part of Upper Dublin Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His father, Steven, is a pediatrician, and his mother, Judi, is a teacher.
He attended the University of Rochester, where he majored in political science and became the first freshman to win election as the student body president of the University of Rochester in 1992. He graduated magna cum laude in 1995. While working on Capitol Hill, he enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center as an evening student and earned a Juris Doctor in 2002.
While a state representative, Shapiro was one of the first public backers of then-Senator Barack Obama for president in 2008. This was in contrast with much of the Pennsylvania political establishment, which supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
In 2019, Shapiro led efforts to ensure that insurance holders of Highmark, a healthcare company, can receive treatment at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The settlement allowed 1.9 million insurance recipients to continue using their existing doctors as in-plan providers rather than being forced to switch either medical providers or insurance providers.
In 2021, Shapiro announced an opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson and three other U.S. pharmaceutical distributors that resulted in Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion.
Shapiro joined several other state attorneys general in opposing President Donald Trump’s travel ban, and also sued Trump and the Roman Catholic organization Little Sisters of the Poor to block the implementation of a rule that would have made it easier for employers to deny health insurance coverage of contraceptives.
Shapiro supports cutting Pennsylvania’s nearly 10 percent corporate tax rate to 4 percent by 2025. He has proposed hiring 2,000 additional police officers across Pennsylvania, saying, the “more police officers we hire, the more opportunities we have for them to get out of their patrol cars, walk the beat, learn the names of the kids in the communities”. Shapiro favors pardoning those convicted for possession of small amount of marijuana.
On efforts to mitigate COVID-19, Shapiro has broken with some in the Democratic Party and opposes mask and vaccine mandates. He prefers educating the public about vaccines’ efficacy.
On the issue of vocational training, Shapiro has proposed increasing career and technical training in high schools, tripling state funding for apprenticeships and union skills programs, and creating a Pennsylvania office of workforce development. He also supports eliminating four-year degree requirements for state government jobs. Shapiro is a supporter of unions and has vowed to veto any “right to work” legislation.
Shapiro has repeatedly voiced support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war. He called on people and governments to condemn the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, calling it a moment “to recognize what is so clearly wrong, the acts of Hamas, and what is right, and that is Israel, our key ally’s right to defend herself in the face of this barbarism.” Shapiro faced criticism for his remarks in a letter written by CAIR and signed by 43 Pennsylvania Muslim organizations, who said that Shapiro did not “recognize the structural root causes of the conflict” and “chose to intentionally ignore the civilian loss of life in Gaza”.
On December 13, 2023, Shapiro gave more detailed remarks on the war, saying, “Israel not only has a right, they have a responsibility to rid the region of Hamas and the terror that Hamas can perpetrate.”
After a pro-Palestinian protest accused Jewish-owned Philadelphia restaurant Goldie of supporting the “genocide” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Shapiro visited the restaurant in a show of support against the “blatant act of antisemitism”. He also criticized University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill for “failure of leadership” after sidestepping questions during the 2023 United States Congress hearing on antisemitism. Shapiro condemned pro-Palestinian protests at American colleges after a prominent rabbi at Columbia University urged Jewish students to leave campus and said the university could not guarantee their safety. He called on local officials to “step in and enforce the law” to protect students. Shapiro called for a police crackdown on the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, but later said he was already aware of police plans to disband the encampment after police made arrests less than 24 hours after Shapiro’s statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Shapiro
There is a name not on the list that is behind the push for Joe to bail out...."She thought she couldn't lose" and now feels OWED the position.
No one but Harris will get to spend any of the 200 million in Joe’s war chest.
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