Ready The Clown Car: The First Batch of Democrats Are Ready To Announce Their 2020 Bids

As weird and perhaps as inconceivable as it may seem to you, I am not really looking for your input on what I should want to post here.

 

Politico reports that some black lawmakers are promoting Biden/Harris as a 'Dream ticket'.

Some Black Lawmakers Pitch Biden and Harris as a "Dream Ticket"

The Congressional Black Caucus may have found an answer to its Joe Biden dilemma: Vice President Kamala Harris. Some black lawmakers are agonizing over whether to back Biden or two members of the close-knit caucus — Sens. Harris and Cory Booker — who are also vying for the White House, according to interviews with a dozen CBC members.

But with the former vice president jumping out to a huge, if early, lead in the polls, several CBC members are warming to the idea of a Biden-Harris ticket to take on President Donald Trump. “That would be a dream ticket for me, a dream ticket!” said Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). “If she is not the nominee, that would be a dream ticket for this country.”​

With the Democrat left obsession with "political correctness" and "Identity politics," it is likely that more than just black Democrats will find this combination appealing. In fact, who else is Biden going to pick? Not Bernie Sanders. Probably not another white male. Maybe one of the white females. But why do that when he can pick a female with dark skin to be his running mate?

Kamala Harris has to be the front-runner to be Joe Biden's VP nominee, if he wins the nomination. And not just among Democrats who are black.

 

What difference does it make how popular she is with Democrats? The top of the ticket is what counts on election day.

The selection of a VP by Biden will be an opportunity to appease the "Identity politics" obsessed left wing of the party. Harris checks as many boxes as can be checked this time around. She is a woman, she has dark skin, she is younger, and she is presenting herself as a 'Progressive" who has been going out of her way to check as many of the "Politically correct" boxes as she can.

This pick - if Biden makes it - will be all about virtue signalling. Biden is not likely to win against Trump anyway, even if this is the VP nominee. His VP choice will not matter much in the general election, except to the extent that the left wing feels like he has been sufficiently deferential to their demands, and therefore deign to show up at the polls to vote for old Joe.

As far as whether she is popular with black voters, I will defer to the author of the article, who suggested that she is at least popular as Biden's VP choice among black Democrat lawmakers. Beyond that, who knows.

But if the Democrats are going to have any chance to be competitive in the general election against Trump this time around, they are going to have to find a way to mobilize the black vote and get them to the polls on election day with a large turnout. Which very likely means some race controversy will be ginned up in the 2-3 months just before the election, just like always. Personally, I do not believe that Biden nominating Harris is likely to be enough on its own to do the job.

 

As I already stated, if she is chosen, her selection will be all about virtue signalling and posing for the far left wing of the party. I do believe that her selection is likely to be sufficient to motivate black turnout the way that the Democrats MUST have in order to be competitive in the general election. To accomplish that, there is usually some race issue that the media blows up into a huge deal within 2-3 months before the general election. It will be a breathtakingly huge surprise if we do not see that again this time around.

What other candidate is female, black, young, and "Progressive"? Who? Say what you like, but she checks off a lot of the "Identity politics" boxes. And we all know how obsessed the Democrat left is with "Identity politics" and "Political correctness". To be fair, Harris is not a mortal lock to be Biden's VP any more than Biden is a mortal lock to with the nomination for his party. But for these two roles, they are the early front-runners.

I agree that the Democrats would be smart to appeal to middle American voters. They do not need to worry about skin color or family heritage. They should focus on economics and respecting all of these people as highly as anyone else in their "Identity politics" hierarchy and stop with the racism, sexism, anti-Christian bigotry and advocacy of anyone based on their sexual habits.

If they could plausibly move the party towards supporting this sort of smart, practical, egalitarian politics, they could be competitive. But that is not going to happen, as I believe you know very well.

 

I did not say that Biden "Cannot" win. But he is not likely to be able to do so.

 

Here are 10 reasons that occurred to me. I am sure there are more. But this will have to do for starters.

1. Trump is the incumbent
   
2. The economy is strong
   
3. Trump has shown that the Democrat left, the establishment and the media are a bunch of corrupt liars that cannot be trusted
4. Trump is pushing ahead with his trade renegotiations and efforts to defend our border
5. Biden is a goof of a candidate who was never very compelling, even in his prime
6. The Democrat House (Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, Waters, AOC, Tlaib, etc.) is going to continue to be the gift that keeps on giving for the benefit of Trump
7. Trump will not have to fight through the primaries this time - he gets a bye until November 2020
8. The revelations by the various DOJ investigations from here on out appear to be poised to hurt the Democrats and to help Trump
9. Top Democrats are refusing to run in Senate races in key competitive states, which is likely to diminish turnout for the Democrats at least a bit
10. The Democrat left has moved so far left that it is likely to spook some moderate Democrat voters into voting for Trump or not voting at all