Joe Biden has a secret weapon that voters want

[LiberalArkie]

Written by Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly June 23, 2020



In 2016, both the Sanders and Trump campaigns promoted the idea that large crowds at their rallies were an indicator of the level of enthusiasm they were receiving from voters. Of course, Sanders went on to lose the primary and although Trump eked out a victory in the electoral college, he lost the popular vote by three million. All of that happened in a year when pundits had decided that populist anger was the theme of that election.

On Saturday, Sanders supporter Michael Moore took to Facebook before Trump’s rally in Tulsa to issue this warning.

They started lining up on Tues in Tulsa for Trump’s rally today. 100,000 are expected! Trump has lost none of his base and they are more rabid than ever. Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights just to get in to see Trump? THAT is commitment. Do not take Trump for granted. Don’t think he can’t win…If you are once again not taking my warnings seriously, then I have a question I want you to answer, and I ask you to answer me honestly:
“How many people would line up for five days just to hear Joe Biden talk?”…
Don’t think we don’t have a problem here. Don’t get all smug laughing at these Bubbas in Tulsa today & snickering over how many of them are going to come down with Covid-19. They live, eat and breathe Trump — and none of us do that with Joe Biden.

-Snip-

They started lining up on Tues in Tulsa for Trump’s rally today. 100,000 are expected! Trump has lost none of his base and they are more rabid than ever. Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights just to get in to see Trump? THAT is commitment. Do not take Trump for granted. Don’t think he can’t win…If you are once again not taking my warnings seriously, then I have a question I want you to answer, and I ask you to answer me honestly:
“How many people would line up for five days just to hear Joe Biden talk?”…

Don’t think we don’t have a problem here. Don’t get all smug laughing at these Bubbas in Tulsa today & snickering over how many of them are going to come down with Covid-19. They live, eat and breathe Trump — and none of us do that with Joe Biden.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/joe-biden-has-a-secret-weapon-that-voters-want/

[abqtommy]

1. I support Joe because he has the one thing that tRUMP has never nor will ever have: sanity.

Everything else positive falls in line after that...

[Maeve]

2. The tail end of that article

This might be the year when voters decide that experience actually matters. Not only are people ready for a president who is capable of empathy and the ability to put the country over his personal interests, Donald Trump’s successor is going to have to rebuild the entire federal government from the ground up. No one in politics is better prepared to do that than Joe Biden. That’s why being ready on day one is perhaps his most powerful campaign theme.

Biden is the antithesis of Trump in ways that matter most. This isn’t likely to be an election dominated by anger or grievance. I suspect that voters are tired of the chaos and are looking for a president who simply knows how to get the job done.

[Budi]

9. Thanks for including this important part of the article

💙

[Bev54]

16. Yes very important portion of the article

Maybe too, it is because Trump's cult is all batshit crazy just like him. The dems are rational people who are not going to fall at the feet of their leader. The dems want a democratic leader not a false god.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. I support Biden because he is competent

Really, at this point it's not even about policies. It is about having a man in the White House who won't get us all killed

[sop]

4. I don't want a president elected by morons who would "line up for five days just to hear" someone

talk.

[Budi]

6. Me neither!

K & R
💙

[Budi]

5. It's unfortunate that we'll never know the crowds VP Joe Biden would bring to his rallys.

Moore has no idea either.

There's a reason Trump ignores the seriousness of COVID-19.
Only he can have campaign rallys.

[JI7]

10. what matters is bringing out people to vote for him which he did do

in the primary.

[Budi]

11. Yes he did & swept it clean..💙 Better than a big rally anyday!

That show of force in the primary WAS his audience.
#Biden2020

[frazzled]

13. There's a Biden "rally" today that has 120,000 coming

No, really: he is having another online fundraising session with an invited guest. This time it is Barack Obama. All you have to do is make a donation of any amount to be able to register for the event and view. So far 120,000 people have done so.

There's still time before this afternoon's start time to donate and register for this "rally" event if you want an even bigger "crowd."

[Budi]

14. Cool huh! I donated.& cannot wait 💙

I'm planning my whole day around it & a bottle of wine ready & waiting.
💙🥂

[lagomorph777]

7. "How many people would line up for five days ..."

Not many, it turns out, even for His Royal Anus, President Turd. The rally that Moore was frothing about completely flopped.

[lark]

12. Just shows what an idiot Moore is and how badly he goofed on this.

He is the one looking like a fool after buying all the drumpf utter BS about crowd size that never ever happened because even his folks want to live and don't believe his lies about CV19 being not a problem.

[UpInArms]

15. Michael Moore is attempting to

butter both sides of the bread.

Life doesn’t quite work that way.

[riversedge]

17. I think Joes secret weapon (need another term) is JILL.