Joe Biden Veepstakes 2020

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

great thread

[Orale 1087]

I'm betting it's Kamala. Doesn't put a Senate seat in Republican hands for the first few months of Biden's presidency. Appeals to the critical black constituency. She has issues with her prosecutor past, but I don't think anyone will care. Plus she'll be a good attack dog.

[tantric superman 4667]

 Keep Abrams in Georgia.

Warren would be terrific in every appointed position Biden could think of including Supreme Court judge.  But I would just have a bad feeling about her as VP.  Can't explain it.  Maybe coming back to backing her now that she isn't going to be the nominee.

 

 

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

[SimonBolivar 10958]

Come on Michelle, you know you want it.

[Upgrayedd 5814]

What's Sarah Palin doing these days?

[David Dennison 18922]

Elizabeth Warren, please.

[Red Five 40862]

I wonder what their internal numbers look like. Like, "Joe, Warren and Kamala give you a 60% chance to win. Michelle puts it at 85. Keep trying." 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Elizabeth Warren, please.

 

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

So what's the ruling on having Barack running as Joe's VP? I know that he's served two terms as President, curious as to what the legal arm of the Surl thinks.

[Pescado_Rojo 19422]

Michelle would be worth it to watch some heads explode

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

11 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

So what's the ruling on having Barack running as Joe's VP? I know that he's served two terms as President, curious as to what the legal arm of the Surl thinks.

Not constitutional for the same reason Hillary couldn’t make Bill her VP.

The Vice President can’t be someone that is ineligible to be elected President. 

b/c Obama served two terms, he’s not eligible to be elected President and therefore not eligible for VP.

The same rules apply to AOC being under 35. She is also not eligible for VP.

Edited May 8, 2020 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Bozo_Casanova 26488]

1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

 Keep Abrams in Georgia.

Warren would be terrific in every appointed position Biden could think of including Supreme Court judge.  But I would just have a bad feeling about her as VP.  Can't explain it.  Maybe coming back to backing her now that she isn't going to be the nominee.

 

 

 

agree on all counts. #teamharris

[RDCanecutter 26452]

Poll is worthless without option of Tulsi Gabbard in golden articulated plate armor.

[henrygandorf 29192]

harris or warren.

klobuchar is meh, but she wouldn't be a drag on the ticket.  same with whitmer.

i'm not an abrams fan but i think she would be a fine as a running mate.  no idea how she'd be as a vp (does anyone even care).  what i don't like about her is that whomever the vp is should be positioned as the presumptive nominee or potential president in '24 or sooner, and i don't think that's abrams.

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

How long until Fox runs with Hillary could be the VP and Biden will then step down immediately so she can be President.  I can hear Hannity, Tucker and my Facebook feed getting blown up with some bullshit story like that.  Sadly, 30% of the country would believe it and start freaking out.

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

harris or warren.

klobuchar is meh, but she wouldn't be a drag on the ticket.  same with whitmer.

i'm not an abrams fan but i think she would be a fine as a running mate.  no idea how she'd be as a vp (does anyone even care).  what i don't like about her is that whomever the vp is should be positioned as the presumptive nominee or potential president in '24 or sooner, and i don't think that's abrams.

I say Whitmer as VP and Harris as Attorney General and then let Harris go after errbody.

[henrygandorf 29192]

Just now, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

How long until Fox runs with Hillary could be the VP and Biden will then step down immediately so she can be President.  I can hear Hannity, Tucker and my Facebook feed getting blown up with some bullshit story like that.  Sadly, 30% of the country would believe it and start freaking out.

i'm just waiting for hillary's people to leak that she's been offered the spot.  there's a short list of things that can derail this whole operation, and that's on it.

[henrygandorf 29192]

1 minute ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

...and then let Harris go after errbody.

from your lips to god's ears.

[washparkhorn 9939]

Kamala is the co-sponsor of legislation with Sanders and Ed Markey that would direct stimulus money to individuals rather than billionaires. The legislation would provide a Yang-like guaranteed basic income of $2K per month for every American. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/08/monthly-payments-2000-coronavirus-243670

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The payments would be retroactive to March and last until three months after the Health and Human Services Department has declared the public health emergency over. The legislation would also bar debt collectors from taking the payments, and would deliver them regardless of whether people have a Social Security number or filed taxes last year.

Right move for the nation's economy. Right move for Harris.

With Biden support among Millennials and Zoomers sagging, ( https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/clear-warning-signs-focus-group-shows-joe-biden-s-lack-n1201581?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma) a progressive piece of economically sound legislation that aids Main Street v. Wall Street should raise enthusiasm for Biden, if he chooses Harris. 

Warren is too old for 2024 and her seat is too vulnerable. She is also despised by left economic progressives. Biden already has the Patagonia Moms (Karens) locked up. Klobachar and Warren bring nothing more to the plate.

Abrams does not have enough name recognition at the present. 

Harris fills a lot of needs for the Biden campaign. 

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by washparkhorn

[Dbeasy 15068]

[zork 629]

2 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

So what's the ruling on having Barack running as Joe's VP? I know that he's served two terms as President, curious as to what the legal arm of the Surl thinks.

Michelle is eligible of course, Barack is not.

[Message Board User 12395]

 

[Snake Diggity 4625]

If Warren really does poll that well with black voters then she should be the pick.  She’d make the best president of the potential candidates.  But it’s really hard to believe Warren is more popular with blacks than Harris.

[Message Board User 12395]

13 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

If Warren really does poll that well with black voters then she should be the pick. 

Narrator:  She doesn't.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

2 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

If Warren really does poll that well with black voters then she should be the pick.  She’d make the best president of the potential candidates.  But it’s really hard to believe Warren is more popular with blacks than Harris.

Literally every recent poll on this has Warren leading among black voters.  This isn’t an anomaly poll.

[TexArcher 37975]

9 hours ago, tantric superman said:

 Keep Abrams in Georgia.

Warren would be terrific in every appointed position Biden could think of including Supreme Court judge.  But I would just have a bad feeling about her as VP.  Can't explain it.  Maybe coming back to backing her now that she isn't going to be the nominee.

 

 

 

Warren has Secretary of Education written all over her.

Kamala for AG.

Think he'll pick Abrams for VP.  And it'll be fun to watch Fox News talking heads try to imply the n word without actually saying it for 4 to 8 years.

Edited May 9, 2020 by TexArcher

[Longhorn_Fan68 33874]

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[UDontKnow 10447]

12 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Warren has Secretary of Education written all over her.

Kamala for AG.

Think he'll pick Abrams for VP.  And it'll be fun to watch Fox News talking heads try to imply the n word without actually saying it for 4 to 8 years.

[StassneyHorn 6613]

Abrams is young as fuck. A competent DNC keeps her in Georgia and hope she wins statewide in 2022, expands Medicaid and makes voter registration/turnout better in the state and turns it from purple to lean D.  She wins re-election and teases presidential run in 2028. She needs to hit the road in the state now getting people gassed up to vote for 2 Democratic Senators in Georgia to springboard her Governor run in two years.

FFS she cannot be VP with that much potentially at stake with Texas on the same path leaning blue.

[Patrick Bateman 3917]

Demings, Harris, Cortez-Masto or maybe a longshot Warren pick.  I think those are the logical choices thus far.

[VRHorn 718]

I thought we agreed it can’t be Warren because the governor of MA is a republican. Also, she’s too old to run with Joe.

Abrams is actually doing more important work, plus I think she has the Beto problem (what has she done).

Isn’t Kamala the AG?

I think it’s Witmer.

 

[VRHorn 718]

Separately, it’s absolute bullshit that Warren isn’t the nominee, but I guess that ship has sailed. God forbid the nominee isn’t a moron. 😀

[tx 3 putt 77053]

no way pence shows up to debate harris

[Message Board User 12395]

Unless there are skeletons in her closet that we don’t know about my choice would be Demmings.  

[tantric superman 4667]

This VPs chance of being President is very high. With that being said, we have Trump, so experience seems to mean exactly jack shit to this electorate.

Fuck Biden again for announcing that it would be a woman.  Not because it shouldn't be a woman, but because it kinda cheapens the pick. 

He's going to play it safe and pick Miss Minnesota.  He doesn't need to get blacks, or progressives or mexicans excited.  He needs to lock in the midwest.  She stayed in the race and more or less finished, compared to the others.  She's been vetted.  She won't turn anyone off and will be acceptable when Biden drops out.

Whitmer or Duckworth or Tammy Baldwin as dark (figurative) horses.

 

[Message Board User 12395]

46 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

Fuck Biden again for announcing that it would be a woman.  Not because it shouldn't be a woman, but because it kinda cheapens the pick.

Disagree.  If he hadn't already announced it would be a woman, and then picked a woman, the choice of a woman VP would be seen by some as merely a response to the Tara Reade nonsense.

Since he had already said it was going to be a woman, Biden is somewhat inoculated against those criticisms.

[tantric superman 4667]

2 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

Disagree.  If he hadn't already announced it would be a woman, and then picked a woman, the choice of a woman VP would be seen by some as merely a response to the Tara Reade nonsense.

Since he had already said it was going to be a woman, Biden is somewhat inoculated against those criticisms.

I can't argue that you make a good point that it will work out for him.  Still really shity politics, all fingerbanging aside.

[HRSchenker 2271]

I has to be someone who can go toe to toe with Pence in a debate without looking passive (Hillary) and without looking like an asshole (Kaine). Kamala is the only one who can do that.

[Drew 2494]

On 5/8/2020 at 11:41 AM, Orale said:

I'm betting it's Kamala. Doesn't put a Senate seat in Republican hands for the first few months of Biden's presidency. Appeals to the critical black constituency. She has issues with her prosecutor past, but I don't think anyone will care. Plus she'll be a good attack dog.

I'm guessing I missed something, but does Biden really need help getting the Black Vote?  Didn't he basically trounce a front running Sanders because the Black community basically decided they wanted Biden?

[tx 3 putt 77053]

3 minutes ago, Drew said:

I'm guessing I missed something, but does Biden really need help getting the Black Vote?  Didn't he basically trounce a front running Sanders because the Black community basically decided they wanted Biden?

 

fyi, no president has done more for blacks than one donald j trump !!!! don't believe me, just ask him 

[Drew 2494]

I mean of course that's true. It has to be...we've been beat over the head with it.

 

But really though...if he's already getting 80% of the black vote(I'm probably low on that), does picking someone that the black community likes really help him more than someone who might get the Bernie Bros or something who might not even vote at all now?

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Need to pull in the progressive vote. Biden has the black vote.

[tx 3 putt 77053]

this election is going to be won in the suburbs. 

[Kermit 3156]

13 hours ago, VRHorn said:

I thought we agreed it can’t be Warren because the governor of MA is a republican. Also, she’s too old to run with Joe.

Abrams is actually doing more important work, plus I think she has the Beto problem (what has she done).

Isn’t Kamala the AG?

I think it’s Witmer.

 

They have a special election in Massachusetts. 

[StassneyHorn 6613]

MA governor, Charlie Baker, appoints an interim for 145-160 days before a special election must occur. He’s wildly popular as a Republican Governor but that hasn’t translated to the Senate seat for Republicans during his time. If he picks a Republican to take over a Democrat’s spot he will be fucking himself over. Currently a Kennedy is in a primary against sitting Senator Markey. If Kennedy beats him, which would suck for progressives, Markey could run again as he just made it into the Senate in 2013 (even though he’s 73) after having been in the media cycle running up to the election. If Markey wins his re-election this cycle, Kennedy runs for the Special Election and wins that going away. The nailbiting over MA having a Republican Governor is unwarranted unless you think candidates “First 100 days” has meant anything.

[bad_teammate 13215]

2 hours ago, Drew said:

I'm guessing I missed something, but does Biden really need help getting the Black Vote?  Didn't he basically trounce a front running Sanders because the Black community basically decided they wanted Biden?

Clinton did better among black voters than Biden.

[washparkhorn 9939]

2 hours ago, Drew said:

I'm guessing I missed something, but does Biden really need help getting the Black Vote? 

In the general election, Biden needs turnout. Patagonia Moms may like Warren, but progressives are split when it comes to her and she does not excite anyone other than Patagonia Moms (and their browbeaten mates). 

Kamala with her move to progressive economic policies will increase turnout. I don't know why the Karens and their suburban mates don't like Kamala. She is the clear frontrunner for Biden's VP.

[Patrick Bateman 3917]

25 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

MA governor, Charlie Baker, appoints an interim for 145-160 days before a special election must occur. He’s wildly popular as a Republican Governor but that hasn’t translated to the Senate seat for Republicans during his time. If he picks a Republican to take over a Democrat’s spot he will be fucking himself over. Currently a Kennedy is in a primary against sitting Senator Markey. If Kennedy beats him, which would suck for progressives, Markey could run again as he just made it into the Senate in 2013 (even though he’s 73) after having been in the media cycle running up to the election. If Markey wins his re-election this cycle, Kennedy runs for the Special Election and wins that going away. The nailbiting over MA having a Republican Governor is unwarranted unless you think candidates “First 100 days” has meant anything.

So, the counter argument to this is, if Baker does appoint, even a Mod GOP'er, and let's say it ends up being a 50/50 split in the Senate after election day and Warren had to resign from her position...... How long you think RGB gonna hold out?  Another 5 months?  And yes, the first 100 days will be incredibly important in trying to unfuck everything Trump has destroyed in his term.  Markey's done if he loses the nomination.  I get the arguments for Warren and frankly, I think she was the best candidate.....for President, so if she gets the nod for VP, then cool.  Strategically, she doesn't do anything as Mass isn't really a swing state and her sway with Progressives probably offset by how much the corporatists in the party loathe (are afraid) of her, but she may be the most deserving.  But I wonder, would she be better served making real change as the VP or as a Senate Majority leader or a powerful cabinet position after a year?  I don't know.

 

4 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

In the general election, Biden needs turnout. Patagonia Moms may like Warren, but progressives are split when it comes to her and she does not excite anyone other than Patagonia Moms (and their browbeaten mates). 

Kamala with her move to progressive economic policies will increase turnout. I don't know why the Karens and their suburban mates don't like Kamala. She is the clear frontrunner for Biden's VP.

Doubtful.

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by Patrick Bateman