Election 2024 Foreplay

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TreeFrogTrader, Feb 1, 2023.

  1. Trump, Biden both tumble in Iowa: poll

    Former President Trump and President Biden both saw their support tumble in the early primary state of Iowa, according to a new poll.

    An Emerson College poll of Iowa Republican caucus voters showed support for Trump currently sits at 49 percent, a drop from 62 percent in May. Meanwhile, a poll of Iowa Democratic caucus voters showed that Biden’s support now sits at 50 percent, a drop from 69 percent in May.


    more at link

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4199352-trump-biden-both-tumble-in-iowa-poll/
     
    #1331     Sep 12, 2023
  2. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Biden showing composure and using the opportunity to talk about how they would all figure this out.

    Trump talking about himself. (btw - he said 40 Wall was the tallest building in downtown manhattan, not all of manhattan). He doesn't own 40 Wall Street. He has a lease and the naming rights.
     
    #1332     Sep 12, 2023
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

     
    #1333     Sep 13, 2023
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I'm curious - but did you post that because you agreed or disagreed with the point being made? I know you don't like the man, but I'm talking to the concept being presented.
     
    #1334     Sep 13, 2023
  5. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    I agree.Also while he mentioned Biden he was taking a shot at Trump too.
     
    #1335     Sep 13, 2023
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  6. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I'd go even further and extend it to congress and the senate. McConnel, Pelosi, Feinstein, all of these mummies - bye!
     
    #1336     Sep 13, 2023
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  7. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    They are right,but they should also be calling for Biden not run.Even Sanders as VP wont win him 2024.


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    Several columnists have an idea on how to make President Joe Biden more electable in 2024: Drop Vice President Kamala Harris and pick a new running mate.

    Yes, voters think Biden may be too old to serve another four years, according to recent polls, but three columnists believe that a stronger running mate will gain traction in the country or even in the party.

    In a piece urging Biden not to run again, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggested as a backup plan that Biden could replace Harris with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass or Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.



    Ignatius says voters are sensibly focusing on Harris because of Biden’s age, while noting that Harris is less popular than Biden, with a 39.5 percent approval rating, according to the polling website FiveThirtyEight.

    “Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Ignatius writes.

    Biden himself has committed to Harris as his running mate for 2024. He said last year, “She’s going to be my running mate, No. 1. And No. 2, I did put her in charge. I think she’s doing a good job.”

    In a New York Magazine Intelligencer column, Eric Levitz floats several options to replace Harris including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).

    “To be sure, replacing Harris with another running mate is not a great option,” Levitz writes. “It’s just that Democrats have no good ones. It is risky to switch out the first Black and female vice-president for someone else. But it is also risky to saddle an 81-year-old nominee with an exceptionally unpopular running mate who — if all goes well — will be all but guaranteed the party’s nomination in 2028.”

    However, dumping Harris could come with significant backlash among Black voters — a category of voters Biden needs in 2024 that served him a major victory in 2020. Harris’ role as vice president marked an important achievement being the first woman to ever hold her office and the first person of Black or South Asian descent to do so.

    But as journalist Josh Barro writes in his newsletter “Very Serious,” “Harris’s role as a draw for black voters is more theoretical than demonstrated” since she has never had a core political base among Black voters “because she has never been elected in a jurisdiction with a large black population.”

    In Harris’ place, Barro suggests Whitmer as Biden’s running mate.

    “[Biden] has the opportunity to pick a running mate who’s more appealing to voters than Kamala Harris, more credible as a next-generation leader of the Democratic Party than Kamala Harris, and more comforting to voters who consider the possibility that his running mate might succeed to the presidency than Kamala Harris,” Barro writes.
     
    #1337     Sep 13, 2023
  8. UsualName

    UsualName

    Speaking of age, Romney says he’s not seeking re-election because he would be in his mid 80s at the end of a second term.

     
    #1338     Sep 13, 2023
  9. UsualName

    UsualName

    Sanders, as in Bernie Sanders?
     
    #1339     Sep 13, 2023
  10. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Yes
     
    #1340     Sep 13, 2023