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Joe BidenCongratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
 

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 12:56 PM Mar 2020

It's easy to focus just on your favorite candidate's positions and plans.

However, if your favorite is no longer in the running, perhaps it's time to go have a look at what the current leader and holder of the momentum has in mind for his job as President. Even if your favorite is still in the race, don't you owe it to yourself to look and see what the competition has to say? Go here and find out what Biden is proposing:

https://joebiden.com/joes-vision-3/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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It's easy to focus just on your favorite candidate's positions and plans. (Original Post) MineralMan Mar 2020 OP
Thanks for the info Just_Vote_Dem Mar 2020 #1
Thank you! Even AOC is urging everyone to vote for the nominee even if it isn't sanders Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #2
To which I would add that when you elect a president you elect a whole bunch of people. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #3
+1000 ancianita Mar 2020 #4
 

Just_Vote_Dem

(2,804 posts)
1. Thanks for the info
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 01:01 PM
Mar 2020

Also, sometimes I see people who wonder what we (Democrats) stand for-usually an Independent voter. Here's a link that will give them some info:

https://democrats.org/who-we-are/what-we-do/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Thekaspervote

(32,762 posts)
2. Thank you! Even AOC is urging everyone to vote for the nominee even if it isn't sanders
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 01:03 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
3. To which I would add that when you elect a president you elect a whole bunch of people.
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 01:08 PM
Mar 2020

There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the fact that the next president will be another old white guy no matter what happens. This is true, but we also have to consider who else will be working with that old white guy. We already know about the assortment of grifters, lickspittles, incompetents and misfit toys Trump (technically an old orange guy, but I digress) collects around him (and throws away when they displease him). But who will Biden appoint? We can be sure most, if any, of them won't be old white guys. I think we can expect that many of the very diverse group of original candidates will find jobs in his administration. I'm betting on Klobuchar and Harris and possibly Warren; most likely Buttigieg; possibly Castro and Booker - and there will be folks from Obama's administration too, plus others we don't know about. Very few, if any, of Biden's appointees will be old white guys, but we know they'll be qualified and competent. I'm not so sure about Bernie, though. His appointees are also not likely to be old white guys, but I fear there will be a serious lack of ideological diversity. I'd rather have any number of old white guys than Nina Turner, for example.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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