Last time Donald Trump had no history…
Last time Democrat seem to have one hand tired behind their back with a candidate that even some Democrats admitted didn’t seem to run a a good campaign and was divisive herself…
All that is gone…
Except for some Bernie holdouts…
Defeating Donald Trump IS the overriding goal for Democrats…
No doubt….
“Biden is better than Trump,” West said. “There’s no doubt about it.”
Comments like this have gone a long way in shedding the shell of anxiety and fear that has long enshrouded a Democratic Party still shattered by its unexpected loss to Trump in 2016. In the past month, amid the worst public health crisis in a century, the party has coalesced around a single candidate far earlier than most expected, and set aside many of the divisions that hobbled Clinton in 2016.
The long-feared contested convention has been forestalled. A traditional, cast of thousands party gathering that would have given Biden opponents a nationally televised forum for protest appears less and less likely to occur. Allegations of intraparty rigging that defined 2016 have been largely quarantined in Trump campaign news releases.
Already Sanders and Biden are engaged in mutual public praise that eluded Sanders and Clinton four years ago and delayed his endorsement until July. And for the first time in 16 years, a non-incumbent Democrat has sealed the presidential nomination in early April, providing an extended runway to prepare for the general election.
While party leaders still expect a close election, given Trump’s strengths as a candidate, his deep base in core swing states, his significant bankroll and much larger campaign organization, they argue that the dramatic shifts of the last month clearly have placed their party in a stronger position for November….
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“When you look at this, Senator Sanders immediately coming out and saying Joe Biden’s a decent person, a great human being, that’s an endorsement I think Secretary Clinton didn’t exactly get,” said Heitkamp, adding that Democrats have another advantage they lacked in the last election: “What Hillary Clinton didn’t have in ’16 is she didn’t have President Trump. And President Trump may be the single most significant unifying factor in the Democratic Party.”….
Political wire says the Trump campaign will atrempt to tie Biden to China.
Sounds like heights if desperation to me.
Can’t run on ‘aee you better off now than you were 4 yrs ago” try to create a distraction involving tenous ties to a foreign government.
Republicans in 1992 tried to do that with Bill Clinton and the Soviet Union. Didn’t work then. Don’t see it working now.
Post coming on this…