Joe Biden Is Running Out Of Gas

[denem]

Joe Biden Is Running Out Of Gas

The former VP has lost the plot, voters say. And they’re wondering if he will ever get it back.

Forty-five minutes after Joe Biden’s first campaign event was supposed to start on Saturday, his crowd had grown restless. The former vice president wasn’t at the Rex Theatre in downtown Manchester and those crammed inside were wondering just how much longer they’d have to suck in the heated air before they get to see him speak.

In the rafters, a chant broke out. “We Want Joe!” the voices said, overpowering the soundtrack of classic rock and commercial motown that had been playing on blast to keep the crowd from completely dozing off.

But no one picked it up. Instead, after two renditions, the men simply stopped. And those who’d bothered to consider joining in the chorus did what they’d been doing since it became clear that the event would not start on time: they dumped their faces back into their cellphones.

“This is a microcosm of the failure of this campaign,” said Adam Ross, a Long Islander who helped start the chant. “The energy is slowly dissipating from this room.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-running-out-of-gas

[bluewater]

1. Running on empty?

[AmericanGraffiti]

2. I hate it for Joe

Good guy and he was a great VP under Obama.

He probably shouldn't have ran this year, he really had nothing to prove.

[denem]

4. And Bernie had nothing to prove either.

But instead we had the same old Obama's candidate v Sanders, and all the associated bitterness flows with that.

Without Sanders & Biden, the choice could have been -

Amy, Liz, Kamala & Pete - a broad ideological spectrum - and not one straight white male amongst them.

[AmericanGraffiti]

8. Bernie is always proving something

haha! He is a fighter.

And I have nothing against straight white men, and I think they have just as much right to run for our nomination as anyone else.

[UniteFightBack]

21. He's 'fought' his whole life and has gotten NOTHING DONE. No thanks. nt

[still_one]

23. Sorry but he had some post offices named after him, so there

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Bernie has Medicare for all to prove.

And a certain segment said our candidate also fights for Medicare For All so Bernie is redundant! Well how did that pan out?

[Fresh_Start]

26. Wow did that get passed? Oh it didn't. nt

nt

[BusyBeingBest]

7. I wish he hadn't. I think now he's tired of his only remaining son being a constant GOP target.

That would dishearten even the most fired-up candidate. I feel bad for him.

[AmericanGraffiti]

12. What Trump has done

to the Bidens is despicable! Absolutely repugnant.

Biden is a great American and he didn't deserve the smear campaign Trump engaged in. Why Trump is still allowed to sit in the oval office is beyond me!!

[PatSeg]

11. That's the way a lot of us feel about Bernie

He has brought an awful lot of divisiveness to the primaries, whereas Biden brings experience and unity. There is a reason why Trump and the republicans don't want to run against Joe.

[woodsprite]

25. Actually, I remember my kids and I going to a Bernie

Rally in Wilmington, DE last go around. Standing (only chairs were in a cordoned off handicap section) and we were waiting on Bernie over 90 min after we were allowed into the venue.

[PatSeg]

28. His rallies were really impressive

Why are you supporting Joe this time?

[woodsprite]

29. I figured he was the best candidate to hit

The ground running on Day 1. He knows how things were before Trump, not just the surface stuff either, so he knows what Trump has destroyed and dicked with. He would be the best at rebuilding the relationships with our allies. Also, didn’t like the possibility of Gabbard as a VP pick. I would love to have a Biden/Harris ticket.

[PatSeg]

30. Oh yes

A different time and different problems. Certainly not time to gamble with our future after the last three years.

Biden/Harris would be a great ticket or Biden/Abrams.

[onecaliberal]

3. :

[snowybirdie]

5. Actually

He's just getting started and Iowa and NH are not indicative of the whole electorate. Time will tell.

[DemocracyMouse]

6. And the news should have shouted this from Iowa:

Bernie Sanders wins the popular vote in Iowa!
Warren beats Biden handily!

[BusyBeingBest]

9. Well, that was never going to happen. The media wants Buttigieg.

[TwilightZone]

16. There is no popular vote in a caucus.

If it had a popular vote, it would be a primary.

[still_one]

24. +++

[maximusveritas]

17. Why would they do that? Pete and Joe's performance were obviously the biggest surprises

So of course that's the 2 they would focus on.
Only someone extremely biased for Sanders and Warren would think differently

[redstateblues]

27. nice spin. The truth is Warren is barely above water and running out of money

[McKim]

10. Sad, I Had Hope

Sad. He is such a nice guy and I had hope that he would see the light and take on some of Sanders’ and Warren’s ideas and get more current. The lunch bucket people he wanted to help have been struck so low that they actually voted for Trump in desperation. He does have a comforting fatherly persona that inspires.

[UniteFightBack]

20. Right, and he's the guy to swing them back but who cares about the swing states they're over rated

[George II]

13. Campaign appearances always run late, sometimes very late. I've been to several over the years...

Three at which Bill Clinton appears (once for himself, once for a Governor candidate, once for Hillary Clinton) - he was more than an hour late for each, one more than two hours late. Also two or three events for eventual governor Dan Malloy - in each case he was very late.

It's a characteristic of the hectic nature of political campaigns. If being late is "a microcosm of the failure of this campaign", virtually every campaign in recent history has been a failure.

[jalan48]

14. Joe's still back in the time Democrats and Republicans worked together on the issues.

Sadly, for both Joe and the nation those times are long gone.

[TwilightZone]

15. "suck in the heated air" -- it's New Hampshire in February.

Would the author prefer that the place was unheated?

If I had to guess, the author had a minimum-word quota.

[UniteFightBack]

19. Well when the fake president gets impeached to destroy you and Democrats ABANDON the best

chance to beat dump in the swing states this is what happens.

[demofan40]

22. The democrats impeached Trump.

And I doubt they did it to destroy Biden's chances. Highly doubtful.

The Hunter Biden stuff sucks beyond belief, but this is what Republicans do and have been doing for a long time now. There's no sewer they won't crawl into if it means boosting one of their own. This should not be news to any democrat at this point.

Biden should just laugh it off and bring attention back to the real beneficiaries of nepotism currently in the White House. That's what he should have done when Savannah Guthrie asked him about it last week. If you blow up every time that question is being asked now, how is he going to fare when Trump brings it up?