Open thread. Make your best case why your candidate is best positioned to beat Trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Nothing else matters.

[samnsara]

1. experience!!! LOTS OF IT.. above all else foreign policy experience..followed by..

empathy, compassion and knows where all the bodies are hidden. Ideas arent off the rails and can be implemented easily. Doesnt have to be the most exciting candidate cuz im ready for a little down time but they have to make me feel safe and be tough at the same time.

[Perseus]

3. Very good concise argument for Biden

Well done...

[Peacetrain]

8. You beat me to it.. foreign policy experience.

We are so in the deep stuff on the international stage!!

[Perseus]

2. Bravo!

I have been saying that, we need to expose the good things about our candidate of choice, not waste time trying to proliferate memes and other negative talking points about other candidates. Convince me why your candidate is better than the rest, you are correct, nothing else matters.

[underpants]

4. Marianne Williamson will align the nation's chakras

and give the White House the good deep sage rub it needs.

[ismnotwasm]

7. *snort*

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[redqueen]

5. I think Yang is our strongest candidate against Trump for many reasons, including:

- he's an outsider, Trump cannot attack him as a corrupt lifetime politician

- he's the only candidate with positive net favorability with all voters

- his policies appeal to voters across the political spectrum

- he is able to connect with people, doesn't 'talk like a politician'

- his policies would help the most Americans the fastest

- we have suffered the effects of trickle down economics for decades and should have already implemented trickle up economics

- he's the only candidate who not only understands the threat posed by automation, but also has policies to address it

- he has the same message of optimism and unity that Obama did. he is not uniting one party against the other, but uniting American citizens against the challenges we will be facing in the coming years

- he seems to be the only candidate who understands that so many of our problems as a society stem from the very basic fear that we could at any moment not be able to meet our basic needs. little else can be addressed when you are living paycheck to paycheck, which is 78% of us.

- his likeability will help with low information voters who 'go with their gut'. these people will vote trump over a politician.

[scheming daemons]

6. "It" factor. Buzz.

That means Pete, if it can't be Amy.

[Recursion]

9. Andrew Yang is the only candidate with positive favorability among D's, R's, and I's

Furthermore, he has shown an ability to attract disaffected Republicans and -- much more importantly -- people who have never been involved in politics before. With the resources of the national party behind him he could work wonders.

[zackymilly]

10. Bloomberg has more money! n/t

[empedocles]

11. Biden broad base - and the all important, oft neglected here, down ticket strength,

to get something done.

Even with the economic crash of '08 powerful help - when that crash alleviated and subsided, Obama was not able to do much more.
Obama did not have that deep, broad support downticket, or with enough voters, [and, yes, a black family in the WH provided the votes for the tea party].