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In reply to the discussion: Okay, who agrees with Biden's idea that there will be a Republican "epiphany" if Dem wins. (poll) [View all]Celerity
(53,320 posts)43. I think you vastly overrate Biden's power
He is nowhere even near the nomination yet, and certainly not a lock to win the POTUS if the economy holds up and we bollocks up oversight over the orange bloat. I am young but I wasn't born yesterday. I NEVER count chickens before they hatch.
Biden has an outdated view of the modern political landscape IMHO.
Joe Biden: "I like Dick Cheney, for real. I think he is a decent man."
Joe Bidens Paid Speech Buoyed the G.O.P. in Midwest Battleground
The former vice president's address in October helped Fred Upton, a vulnerable Republican, win re-election in Michigan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/biden-speech-fred-upton.html
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But Mr. Bidens appearance in Michigan plainly set his lucrative personal activities at odds with what some Democrats saw as his duty to the party, linking him with a civic group seen as tilting to the right and undermining Democrats effort to defeat Mr. Upton, a powerful lawmaker who in 2017 helped craft a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Finally, it is ludicrous to think that a Rethug Senate will pass bills that move the nation 'to the left', unless you are going to give me some plazzy version of what 'left' is.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Okay, who agrees with Biden's idea that there will be a Republican "epiphany" if Dem wins. (poll) [View all]
hedda_foil
May 2019
OP
Not a chance in hell any Republican will work with Biden or any Democrats after 2020.
LonePirate
May 2019
#3
They'll have an epiphany that says the President shouldn't have any authority at all ...
dawg
May 2019
#8
I think that some Republicans will use that in their 2020 election campaigns
More_Cowbell
May 2019
#10
nope, they will only offer RW bills with poison pills inserted that will blow up in conference
Celerity
May 2019
#39
Yeah if the Democrats hold the House and win the Senate and Presidency....
PoliticAverse
May 2019
#16
Joe has to know the "Republican friends" he mentioned are NOT going to have this "epiphany"
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2019
#23
Me neither... but, this being Joe's 3rd Democratic primary race & given his time spent in
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2019
#28
Why would Joe say there'll "be an epiphany...among many of my Republican friends"?!?!
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2019
#19
Maybe he is actually trying to swing the minds of voters... republican voters
Thekaspervote
May 2019
#25
We need a fighter, not a compromiser, we tried that before & look what happened. nt
yaesu
May 2019
#27
The ones who won't will die on the vine aand that will make a big impression on those pukes
CTyankee
May 2019
#37
This reminds me of when McConnell said he was going to make opposition to Obama his number 1
JudyM
May 2019
#48
If they won't work with Biden then they aren't about to work with the others.
LakeArenal
May 2019
#52
He's dreaming, but the real Senate problem is the Mitch & Don show...
TreasonousBastard
May 2019
#57