Biden's Wife: Vote for Him Even If Policies of Other Nominees Are Better

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Polls can be deceiving. I don’t understand why so many people fixate on them. Sure, they might be a good indicator of who might win certain areas against certain opponents, but did we all just forget what happened in the polls leading up to the 2016 election? Hillary, according to the vast majority of polls, was going to win, but then all of a sudden to everyone’s surprise, Trump is our president.

[Nightwing 518]

This election is giving me anxiety. We can't have four more years of Trump; America, love yourself.

Realistically, I'd vote for any one of them over Trump. We just need someone who will swing the favor of the American people. Biden has had way too many hiccups.

[Dukttape 1,437]

2 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

Vote for who you support. 

Jill Stein and that independent weirdo's voters say hi.

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

36 minutes ago, Dukttape said:

Jill Stein and that independent weirdo's voters say hi.

Primaries say hi. 

Totally different from the general election. 

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3 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

Primaries say hi. 

Totally different from the general election. 

She's obviously not talking about primaries though

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

Just now, Dukttape said:

She's obviously not talking about primaries though

She literally is

She’s saying Joe is more electable in the general and why she thinks he should be the nominee. 

And the discussion I was having with the other user was about them voting in the primaries. 

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Critics are responding harshly to comments made by Dr. Jill Biden Monday in which she claimed that even if Democratic primary voters prefer the policies of other 2020 candidates over those of her husband, former Vice President Joe Biden, they should vote for Biden anyway because he's more electable.

Dr. Biden made comments to that effecton Monday in a campaign appearance in Manchester, N.H., reported first by NBC News.

"Your candidate might be better on, I don't know, healthcare than Joe is," Dr. Biden said, "but you've got to look at who's going to win this election, and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, 'Okay, I personally like so and so better,' but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump."

Splinterwriter Rebecca Fishbein found those comments insulting, she wrote Monday evening.

“Since the start of Biden's campaign, his people have been pushing the line that he's the only one who can beat Trump, even though some polls have shown most of the frontrunners would take the President in a head-to-head. That line allows Biden to lean on a milquetoast platform that offers little-to-no progress, beyond getting a bonafide enemy out of the White House, even though much of Biden’s poll dominance reflects more on his name recognition than it does on his real-life performance. If you like him, I won't stop you from voting for him, but if you'd prefer a candidate who "might be better on healthcare than Joe is,"—and there are several of those to choose from, in varying degrees—now is absolutely not the time to swallow that at all.”

Nevertheless, the former vice president has a commanding lead in national polls and in three early primary states Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Biden in New Hampshire. But the first contest, in Iowa, is still months away. And with a field of 23 candidates, Biden's lead is far from a sure thing.

While national polls show Biden remains the primary frontrunner, numerous polls show that other top-tier Democrats—including Senator Sanders, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)—would handily defeat Trump in a head-to-head general election contest.

In her remarks, Dr. Biden acknowledged the depth of the field but nonetheless claimed her husband was best set to take on President Donald Trump. 

"I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that," said Dr. Biden, "but I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race."

"If you're looking at that, you've got to look at the polls," she continued. "If they're consistent, and they're consistently saying the same thing, I think you can't dismiss that."

Dr. Biden's comments come in the midst of a difficult news cycle for the former vice president. After stumbling over his words at the end of a CNN debate on July 31, questions about Biden's mental fitness began to surface in media. Biden then mixed up the cities in which two mass shootings took place in early August, claimed he was in office during the Parkland shooting in 2017, and claimed that "poor kids are just  as bright and just as talented as white kids."

According to an August 15 report from The Hill, Biden's aides are trying to scale back the former vice president's appearances, claiming that Biden is being held to a high standard.

"Yes," tweeted The Intercept's Ryan Grim, "that higher standard of asking the candidate to speak in complete sentences."

Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/critics-respond-after-joe-bidens-wife-says-vote-husband-even-if-you-policies-other

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People who constantly want to look at "electability" seemed to have forgetten what happened in the past 3 years. Hillary Clinton, by every margin, was more "electable" than Trump, yet now we have him in the White House.

And even though I do like Biden (though he isn't my first, second, or even third or fourth choice), I think his wife saying this just tarnishes his whole campaign. That being said, whoever  is the Democratic candidate, we need to vote for them. Whether it be your favorite candidate or someone who you don't support fully, vote Blue no matter who.

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Ummm

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

5 minutes ago, ZiggyZiggs said:

Ummm

My exact reaction 

[Snorlax 6,370]

If we want to beat Trump we need Warren or Sanders. Joe Biden would most likely ensure a second term for Trump 

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

The same LOSING strategy for Hillary used in 2016 and how'd that turn out?

You have to give people a reason to vote. Saying "vote for me or Trump will win" is exactly what Hillary tried to do and she lost because it's a reason to vote against the opponent, not a reason to vote for them.

The media keeps peddling this electability argument because they want someone who's going to do NOTHING once they're elected. To keep the status quo. Which is exactly what Status Quo Joe will do.

Joe Biden is in fact the most likely to LOSE to Trump actually. Just look at his record, it's embarrassing and pathetic. He's lost over and over again yet all the sudden NOW he's gonna win?

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3 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

People who constantly want to look at "electability" seemed to have forgetten what happened in the past 3 years. Hillary Clinton, by every margin, was more "electable" than Trump, yet now we have him in the White House.

And even though I do like Biden (though he isn't my first, second, or even third or fourth choice), I think his wife saying this just tarnishes his whole campaign. That being said, whoever  is the Democratic candidate, we need to vote for them. Whether it be your favorite candidate or someone who you don't support fully, vote Blue no matter who.

She was not electable in every margin imo. She was a terrible candidate in some aspects. Dems need to start realizing that. The mere fact that she didn't campaign hard in Wisconsin, Michigan and Penn and even lost in the primaries to Sanders in some of those States says a lot on her electability. Was she still more competent and smarter than Trump? Sure, she definitely wins on that. But unfortunately she didn't get the right people to vote in her favor even with her winning the general election. America saw a huge shift towards something new like with Trump. Was he bad? Yea, but the public reception of Clinton was just as bad. Add on the fact that she's a woman... We all know how the media treated her there. I just hope that Dems start changing there campaigns soon. 

OT: If Biden can somehow get the young and black demographics out to vote I do think he has a good chance, but other than the liberal elite and base that always come out, will he actually reach out? He's been so boring in these primaries. All of the same policies with nothing new and a bunch of slip-ups along the way. 

[Adakam 2]

Bulshit, but if he gets the primary, ill vote for him, just like ill vote for any candidate that faces trump, just like anyone with more than 2 braincells should do

[Petie Estie 5,707]

god please let him lose the primary so I don't have to vote for him.