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kwolf68

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10. So wish Joe had run in 2016

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Nov 7, 2024, 07:16 PM

Nov 2024

I had some Democratic Party folks I stumbled into a conversation with saying Biden should have run in 2016. They were not so sure Clinton was going to win (this was at a get together the weekend before that election). There was something about their "despair" that Biden skipped 2016 that was an ominous sign when the results came in that election. In retrospect they were right and the fact Joe was seen as "establishment" being that he was PBO's VP for the previous 8 years is negated by the fact Hillary certainly didn't come off as an "outsider". One thing Joe has always been great at is talking to the working class, he's brilliant with that. We will never know and it's not worth going into great analysis over history.

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