Well, it's official. Joe Biden is running for president in 2020. Okay, he may not have said it yet, but he has said he will announce rather he will or not in January. But in politics, that basically means he will. "Maybe" doesn't mean "maybe" in politics.
So he's running, and he does have a lot going for him. He was a senator for over 30 years and became vice-president under Obama. He's also really good with fundraising meaning it's clear he does have a chance.
Not only that, but he's also been unofficially campaigning for about a year now. Yet, despite being a Democratic Senator for so long, he seems to be running as something other than a Democrat. I don't know what he's running as, but it certainly isn't a Democrat. Let's use a three strike system to show you why this is clear.
Strike One: In January Biden was giving a speech where he addressed the issues at young voters heart. Being in his 70's, and entering politics in the 1970's, many would call him out of touch. He showed this was correct. Telling young people "give me a break" after making it clear he has "no empathy" is the most out of touch things a human could say. I ask Joe to go back to the 70's and remember what people thought they heard when another Democrat told them what to wear when they were cold. Then realized, that's basically what he actually said. He lost young voters with that statement, one of the Democrats biggest voting blocks throughout all of history.
Strike Two: What Biden thinks of the time when "the political system worked". Back during the Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones election Biden talked about how old he was. Saying he worked with "old-fashion Democratic Segregationists" that he would go have dinner with. He was second in charge for the first black president by the way. I'm sure the black people who were treated unequally under the law would disagree with how big of a tent the Democrats want to have. So he also made black people and by extension most minorities, very unlikely to support him.
Strike Three: Also in January, Biden was meeting with the Council of Foreign Relations. During this meeting, he bragged about trying to interfere with the political system in Ukraine. Meeting anti-war voters aren't going to like him, who have been loyal Democrats since the Nixon years.
So no one is going to vote for him, yet he has the connects to be the nominee. He will need to be smart, but every 3rd thing he says is beyond idiotic.
In other news, Bernie Sanders has announced he's publishing a book after the midterms. This is something many politicians do just before they run for president, meaning it's likely he will also run in 2020.
Both him and Biden have the connections to be the person who can stop Donnie from having a second term. Choose wisely Democrats, we don't need almost a decade of the Donald.
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