Joe Biden is keeping himself in the media eye now…
And handling himself pretty darn well up close with the crowds , something Donald Trump doesn’t do…
Former Vice President Joe Biden confronted hecklers who interrupted a campaign event in New Hampshire on Sunday to shout at the 2020 presidential candidate about his son’s role with a Ukrainian energy company and online meme’s labeling him “creepy.”
As Biden spoke to attendees at a rally in Milford, a man shouted, “Excuse me, Mr. Biden, how much money did you make in Ukraine with your son?”
His response was swift.
“I released 21 years of my tax returns. Your guy hasn’t released one. What’s he hiding?” Biden shot back, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd with his reference to Trump’s refusal to make any of his tax records public. …
Biden said outlaid he’s consider a Republicans for his running mate as Vice President…
Ah, ?
THAT isn’t gonna happen…
But it sure lit up social media…
“Republican VP” began trending on Twitter Monday afternoon after Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden told voters during a Exeter, New Hampshire event that he would consider a member of the GOP as his 2020 running mate.
Though he predicted he would be “clobbered by the press” for saying so, Biden did it anyway. “The answer is, I would, but I can’t think of one now,” the former vice president said, after a woman asked whether he would partner with a Republican for the upcoming election.
After waiting for the laughter and applause to cease, Biden went on to explain his decision: “There’s some really decent Republicans that are out there still. But here’s the problem right now, the well-known one: They’ve got to step up.”
Biden, a moderate candidate who’s led the Democratic 2020 field in most polls since he officially announced his presidential bid in April, has previously floated some names as potential running mates, including former Congresswoman Stacey Abrams and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
In New Hampshire on Monday, he told his supporters that the key qualification in determining his running mate is that they work well together. “Whomever I would pick were I fortunate enough to be your nominee, I’d pick somebody who was simpatico with me, who knew what I, what my priorities were and knew what I wanted to,” he said. “We could disagree on tactic, but strategically we’d have to be in the exact same page.”…
image…twiiter/ Matt Fuller
Yesterday CG said leftvwing Twitter was “freaking out” over this (which won’t happen BTW)
Of course we know how open conservative media would be to a Democratic running mate on the GOP ticket.
This was Biden trying to appeal to non Democratic voters. He probably should have led with the second part of his answer–that he can’t think of any current Republicans tbat would fit on his ticket.
Not that any would accept anyway.
It’s the party 9f Trump now. None would entertain any offer that would get them blacklisted from the Cult.
I might not have a problem with a Republican on the ticket. But one qualifier is that they MUST support Trump’s impeachment AND MUST be a political moderate. But that excludes almost every elected Republican, so that is not a realistic solution.
Democrats must win in 2020. Our democracy is literally at stake.
There are certainly Republican Governor like Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan, and Phil Scott who all fit that bill. Maybe some others.
The problem is that they are all white males (also straight and Christian) and there is simply no way that Biden would be able to put another white male on the ticket. There would be a revolt within the party, since there is so little excitement about Biden to start with.
Also, this is not all that new. John Kerry suggested he might put McCain on the ticket in ’04 and then in ’08 McCain came very close to picking Lieberman. That would have been an issue for Republicans too.
It’s just NOT gonna happen….
Remember, Biden not long ago attacked Elizabeth Warren for having been a Republican in the past. He said it spoke poorly about her judgment. So, he at times at least seems to think that being a Republican is to be something dirty.
You mean like Bloomberg?
Besides Joe Lieberman, I’m sure that Republicans would have taken Zell Miller on a presidential ticket.
And perhaps in 2016 (since she actually picked an uncharismatic white man anyway), Mike Bloomberg might have been acceptable as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016 to some Democrats outside New York City.
It never hurts to speak against your own party’s candidate at the opposition party’s convention.
Except that you find yourself without a welcome in either party. Your former party will never forgive you and your new home will always mistrust you.
Cases in point are the Democratic VP’s John Tyler (who succeeded the Whig Zachary Taylor on his death in 1850) and Andrew Johnson (who of course succeeded the first Republican President in 1865). Both faced hostile Congresses and later found they had no one to back them in any bid for a second term.
[ It’s slightly different in British politics: Winston Churchill left the Conservative Party that had sent him to Parliament to join the ruling Liberals, and then left the Liberals and wandered back towards the Tories — at the price of a long career in the Wilderness, only relieved in his sixties when he first re-entered the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty (≈ Navy Sec.) and then was the only successor to Neville Chamberlain that the opposition Labour Party would accept. ¶ On the other hand, Sir Oswald Mosley started as a Tory, became a junior minister as a Labour MP, co-founded the short-lived New Party, and finally led the British Union of Fascists. He never even got re-elected to Parliament and spent his whole subsequent career in the Wilderness.]
People don’t take what Biden says seriously – kind of like people not taking what Trump says seriously. Biden could say anything and many of his supporters would defend him – or they could care less. The difference is that Biden is not the least bit corrupt and he (appropriately) sees his role as representing all Americans. Trump is not even close to Biden in those ways.
“put y’all back in chains.”
Yeah, not at all like Trump.
“look fatso, I can do more pushups than you and I challenge you to an IQ contest too.”- (paraphrase)
Not at all like Trump! What a breath of fresh air!
Actually he addressed the questioner not with “Look, fatso, …”, but with “Look, fat, …”
I agree that Biden can’t and shouldn’t put a Republican white male as his VP.
I presume that Mia Love or Nikki Haley would both find it hard to accept nomination as VP on a Democratic ticket.
And for both ideological reasons and her marriage to Moscow Mitch, Elaine Chao would also decline, thought it’s hard to imagine her being acceptable to many Democrats in the first place.
Can anyone image what Trump would do a Republican Democratic Vice President candidate?????
Joe Biden told the Dallas Morning News that he would consider former presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro to be a running mate or a member of his Cabinet if he is elected president.
Said Biden: “My plea to both of them is that they stay engaged. They are talented, talented people.”
Biden also told the Sacramento Bee that he would consider Sen. Kamala Harris for “anything that she would be interested in,” including vice president….
Politicalwire…
If Harris doesn’t get Biden VP?
She should be first in line for Atty Gen….