the abortion thing alone wraps up 2024 for the Democrats a national abortion ban…lmao, these people aren’t even trying to win elections anymore maybe in the right wing echo chamber these views and policies are supremely popular, but for the majority of the country, they’re a joke
Do you plan on spamming every thread now? Can't you keep your trolling to the other biden thread??? Can we genuinely have *ONE* biden thread that's focused on POLICIES and not culture war bullshit?
While I don't always agree with Senator Sanders, I agree with this: Sanders: Biden could ‘win in a landslide’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said President Biden, who kicked off his reelection campaign last week, could “win in a landslide” in 2024. Sanders, who ran against Biden in the 2020 race, said it’s “no great secret” that he and the president “have strong differences of opinion,” but stressed that he thinks Biden is the clear choice for voters given the current political backdrop. “We live in a nation where you have a major political party, the Republican Party, where many- not all, but many of their leadership doesn’t even believe in democracy, they maintain the myth that Trump won the last election. They’re trying to keep people from voting. They’re trying to deny women the right to control their own bodies,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “If you believe in democracy, you want to see more people vote, not fewer people vote, I think the choice is pretty clear. And that choice is Biden,” he said. And if Democrats and the president get stronger on working-class issues and “take on the greed of the insurance companies, drug companies, Wall Street, all the big money interests, and start delivering for working class people,” Sanders said, “I think Biden is going to win in a landslide.” Biden kicked off his much-anticipated 2024 reelection bid last week. Sanders on Sunday also waved off concerns about Biden’s age as the campaign . At 81, the Vermont senator is a year older than the president, who would be 86 by the end of his second term if he wins another four years in the White House. “Well, I think when you look at a candidate you consider a lot. I think age is one thing, I think experience is another thing, I think your record that you have established is another thing,” Sanders said, when asked if 2024 voters should factor in Biden’s age. “But to my mind … when you put it all together, what you have to look at is: What does the candidate stand for? Which side are they on?” Sanders asked. https://news.yahoo.com/sanders-biden-could-win-landslide-135908296.html
Saying that Biden could win in a landslide makes me uneasy. The last two presidential elections should remind us that nothing should be taken for granted. Going into 2020 I realized that Biden could’ve gotten more then 10 million votes over Trump and still lost. He got around 8 million more but a shift of a few 100k in a couple of states and he would’ve lost. A landslide for Biden is possible but Trump could still win. A few changes in the economy or some other events could flip things.
along the same lines Independents Saw Urgency in Ousting Trump. Will They Feel the Same About Re-electing Biden? In Arizona, where independents are a crucial voting bloc, there might not be the same sense of urgency for a Biden-Trump rematch. And some voters might look elsewhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/us/politics/biden-trump-independent-voters-arizona-2024.html
A landslide against Trump would be great, as it might just prompt the GOP to abandon the extremists and refocus on bringing genuine values to Americans. On the other hand, if the Biden vs. Trump election is treated like any other presidential election, we may have already lost, even if Biden wins.
On the one hand, I feel you. On the other, I'll remind you that while 2020 wasn't a landslide, it was a comfortable win. Trump needed to take another 37 seats from Biden, which would mean at least three of PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ, and NV. It could have happened if he wasn't so terrible, but he was far, far from succeeding. Maybe talking about a future 'landslide' isn't responsible, but I want to remind you of the last election because Trump's challenges to the outcome might give some people the impression that it was kinda close even when you think the challenges are bs. It wasn't close. Flipping a couple of states wouldn't have even done it. He'd have to flip 3 states. And one of them had to be PA, GA, or MI. Plus 2 more. He lost states he was "supposed" to win. Agreed that a landslide might be sobering for the GOP. Maybe. But in any case, 2024 should be the last we see of Trump at least. He doesn't put nearly the work into his health that Biden seems to.
food for thought, What Might Make Joe Biden Unelectable Is a Very Scary Threat Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made himself unelectable by doing the politically foolish thing of changing his position on abortion—denying abortion access after six weeks or even earlier. Former President Donald Trump has also made himself increasingly unelectable as he does more and more to strengthen his hold on the Republican nomination. We hardly need more evidence than the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race to see how even the most swing of swing states will go strongly for a Democratic candidate when there is a stark choice on abortion access, especially up against a Republican candidate who also embraces extremist views. We should ask the same question about Joe Biden—is there anything that might also make him unelectable? The issue that could make Joe Biden unelectable is not in his control and is a far greater threat to his re-election than any single policy question. The threat is the effort to create a so-called unity, bipartisan ticket, consisting of a moderate Democrat and a non-MAGA Republican to run as a third-party independent choice in all 50 states. The theory behind this initiative, driven by the centrist group, No Labels, has a well-meaning rationale—giving voters a third option in keeping with the fact that 41 percent or more of the electorate identifies as Independent. The idea is that with Biden's approval rating not being much above 40 percent, and a wide majority of the country not wanting Biden or Trump to run again, that it would be possible for such a unity ticket to win the presidency.
Idk, it looks like a foregone conclusion to me that Joe Biden is going to cake walk it to the Democratic nomination, and all this handwringing about how Democrats don't want him to be the nominee is just a lot of concern-trolling. Big names in the Democratic party won't run against him. Upstarts like RFK will go nowhere. A third party with a candidate-to-be-named-later is a ridiculous thing to be worried about. And voters who "want new blood" will fall in line when presented with a finite list of names. The only thing standing in the way of his nomination is a catastrophic health problem. I'm sure there are some big names that are staying on the balls of their feet just in case that does happen, but otherwise Biden is the candidate. It'd be the height of foolishness to throw away the incumbency advantage for some other candidate who hasn't even evinced some superstar sparkle -- which none have since Obama.
Saw this ad in Michigan the other day. *Every* single maga secretary of state running lost in 2022. Sane Republicans rejected anti democratic secretary of states trying take away their votes. Biden and dems will talk about democracy every day from now until 2024. It's a winning strategy that voters liked in 2022. Dems are literally going in a landslide in 2024. Anyone who wants to wager otherwise shoot me a DM @basso willing to take any money. People don't want MAGA
Nah Trump won Georgia and Arizona, but Deep State pulled off the Big Steal. Hasn't been this rigged since Gore V Bush!!! /plsdontsuemeforconservativetruths
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-beating-trump-democratic-primary-contenders/ Opinion : Biden can beat Trump. But Democrats should worry that no one else can. By Ramesh Ponnuru Contributing columnist| May 1, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT President Biden says he is running for reelection to “finish the job.” What job, exactly? There’s an answer to that question that makes sense. But he’s not saying it directly, and it’s one that should worry Biden’s fellow Democrats. His announcement video presents Biden as defending freedom, democracy, Social Security, voting rights and abortion from “MAGA extremists.” It is not plausible that threats to any of these things, or what Democrats perceive as threats to them, would be vanquished in a second Biden term. Republicans and Democrats are going to continue to disagree about abortion and about how to protect voting rights long after 2028. Biden didn’t get his voting-rights bill into law when Democrats had the House and the Senate, and its prospects are not getting any better. Biden’s real mission, the one that needs completion, is the one he set for himself in his 2020 campaign: keeping Donald Trump out of the White House. That was the theme that summoned the most passion from him throughout that year. In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination, he mentioned policy issues. But his focus was on being the kind of president children could look up to, and not the kind who would bash our foreign allies or equivocate about white supremacists. Keeping Trump out of the White House is a job that Biden could finish. There is, of course, no guarantee that he will accomplish it. He could lose to Trump in November 2024, or beat him only for Trump to run again and win in 2028. But Biden has a good shot at shutting Trump out. Biden may well think that he has a better shot at it than anyone else the Democrats might nominate — because he does. Yes, he is old and unpopular. But have you seen the alternatives? If Biden were not running, Vice President Harris would be the most likely Democratic nominee. But she is just as unpopular and has become a reliable source of loopy sound bites. Democratic insiders cannot stop telling reporters how little she impresses them. The other also-rans from the 2020 primaries have their own disadvantages. Bernie Sanders combines Biden’s advanced age with a political identity much further from the median voter. In the primaries last time, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren showed very little appeal to Black voters, without whom nobody can win the Democratic nomination. There are political analysts who concede some of these points but still insist that the Democrats have a strong bench. It is remarkable, though, how often they mention Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who may be rising stars but have held office only since January. Let’s check back with them in 2028. That’s not to say that Democrats would be doomed if Biden bowed out. It is certainly possible that a Democratic governor — particularly Gavin Newsom of California, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, or Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan — would be able to defeat Harris for the nomination and then Trump for the presidency. But you can see why “Saturday Night Live” played the party’s options as a horror show last fall. The implausibility of most of Biden’s potential replacements is a function of two facts about the Democratic coalition: It’s unwieldy, and it’s in flux. Democrats have been bleeding support from White voters without college degrees and making up for it among Whites with degrees. They have been losing ground in presidential elections in Wisconsin, where most voters are Whites without degrees, and gaining it in Georgia, where they’re only a third of the electorate. Biden has presented himself as a “bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders. He is also a bridge between the Democrats’ past coalition and its future one. He won in November 2020 by holding down losses among Whites without degrees while benefiting from the pro-Democratic trend among Whites with degrees. Trump’s unpopularity aided Biden. But that advantage would almost surely not have been enough for Sanders or Warren, who got the next-largest number of votes in the primaries, to stitch together the precarious electoral majority that Biden did. A recent poll found that most Democrats don’t want Biden to run again. They’re lucky he’s not following their wishes. But it should make them uneasy that they need him to finish the job of stopping Trump.
Do you just plan on spamming this thread with bs articles every day now? Why can't you post policy issues except dumb OP ED pieces.
I'm curious why it bothers you? I think it's good to know the difference between opinion pieces and news articles, but it doesn't hurt to read different opinions, I wouldn't think.
Because most of his OP ED pieces are always disingenuous right wing hit pieces???? Do you not read his hunter biden OP ED pieces that turn out to be conspiracies a week after?? Majority of the pieces turn out to be conspiracies time after time. Posting OP ED pieces just to get reactions is utter trolling. Post policy OP ED.
https://reason.com/2023/04/28/biden...-will-undermine-their-own-clean-energy-goals/ Biden and Congressional Democrats Support Policies That Will Undermine Their Own Clean Energy Goals by Joe Lancaster President Joe Biden is serious about fighting climate change through clean energy. As part of his 2020 presidential platform, he endorsed the ambitious and pricey "Green New Deal" and pledged to "ensure the U.S. achieves a 100% clean energy economy and reaches net-zero emissions no later than 2050." Once in office, Biden "set a goal to reach 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035." It's ironic, then, that Biden's administration and congressional allies are undermining those very same goals. The two primary methods of mitigating carbon emissions are either reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere—shifting to a cleaner technology like wind or solar, for example—or removing and trapping carbon that has already been released. One example of the latter is carbon capture and storage (CCS), which removes carbon from the atmosphere and contains it within the natural environment, either by absorbing it into trees and oceans or capturing and storing it underground. According to The New York Times, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions for coal- and gas-fired power plants. Citing unnamed officials, the Times expects the limits will force plants to use CCS technology, even though only a handful currently do. Under last year's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), companies can even qualify for a tax credit of $85 per ton of carbon captured. But as The Washington Examiner reported, "the administration is currently the largest obstacle to its own climate goals." In order to build out CCS, companies need to construct underground reservoirs, called class VI wells, in which to inject and store captured carbon. And yet the EPA is currently sitting on dozens of permit applications for class VI wells, leaving them in "pending" status. Power plants that want to introduce carbon-mitigating technology are unable to do so until the EPA moves through its backlog. It's also worth remembering that these are just the existing permit applications: Once the EPA rolls out rules that would functionally require most of the nation's more than 3,400 coal- and gas-fired power plants to use the technology, there's no telling how bad the backlog would get. Carbon capture isn't even the only area where the government is standing in its own way. The IRA established tax credits for clean-energy expenditures like electric vehicles and solar panels. And while the solar panel credits are exceedingly difficult to qualify for, Democrats in Congress are pushing for tariffs on panels made in China, which will hurt the solar industry's ability to meet demand. In February 2022, Biden announced that he would renew Trump-era tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels and solar cells. In June, he suspended the tariffs for two years, amid a Commerce Department investigation into companies circumventing the tariffs that roiled the industry. He then invoked the Defense Production Act to boost the domestic manufacture of solar modules and components, which he deemed "essential to the national defense." But on Friday, the House passed a resolution that would revoke Biden's pause and reinstate the tariffs; 12 Democrats voted for the legislation while eight Republicans voted against it. The Washington Post recently reported that while the solar industry worries that the tariffs would be ruinous, Democrats worry that "taking anything other than a hard line against China will cost them voter support." But it will likely also cost them their clean energy goals, seeing as "Chinese companies manufacture more than 80 percent of certain crucial components sold worldwide" for clean energy applications, including "more than 95 percent of the wafers and ingots essential to assembling photovoltaic solar panels." This week, Sens. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.) and Rick Scott (R–Fla.) cosponsored a resolution disapproving of the Biden administration's pause on tariffs. Manchin, who also chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement, "The United States relies on foreign nations, like China, for far too many of our energy needs…. I cannot fathom why the Administration and Congress would consider extending that reliance any longer." Tariffs, as envisioned by protectionist politicians, boost domestic production by lowering the cost differential between American products and their less-expensive counterparts imported from overseas. But in reality, tariffs simply make imports more expensive and remove market incentives for American companies to sell their products at lower prices. With these tariffs, Biden and Democrats' clean energy goals will become increasingly difficult to meet. "The United States cannot produce enough solar panels and cells to meet demand," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, "and the remaining 14 months of this moratorium gives us time to close the gap. The United States can get there and become a global leader in clean energy manufacturing and development. Overturning the moratorium at this stage puts that future at risk." The post Biden and Congressional Democrats Support Policies That Will Undermine Their Own Clean Energy Goals appeared first on Reason.com.
To answer both you and Txtony, I am betting on a Biden victory but it’s not a certainty. As noted yes Trump needed to win 3 states. WI, GA, and Az were very close. PA and MI were bigger margins but not comfortable. Also NV was close. If the economy takes a tumble or some other event could be enough to swing things. Biden could win by a larger margin than he did in the popular vote but I don’t think an electoral landslide like 84, 72, or 64 is likely. Unfortunately the country is far too polarized and several states look lien they will vote for the Republican or Democrat no matter what. Bottom line is that even with everything that’s happened to Trump his support among Republicans is still strong and and just being the Republican nominee guarantees at least 40% of the popular vote and at least 20 states.
Yes. I disagree with almost all of them and have found many of them irrelevant. If there's something in them that can be countered or leaves out vital information, I'll respond and post other articles or information. But at least at least some of the time it's something that can be discussed and isn't just an extreme attention seeking youtube. You're fine to hate them, I was just curious why. No problem.
I have absolutely no problem with the op Ed he posted about the energy stuff. That's good substance which is good Intended. Posting different opinions and policy approaches is healthy and good. I just don't understand why the conspiracies OP ED ones.
