Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasnāt joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Bidenās age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
And after McConnellās second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his āfriendā sounded like āhis old selfā and that such episodes are a āpart of his recoveryā from a fall and a concussion this year.
He polled terribly in his 2016 run. His popularity improved during Trumpās presidency, especially during the impeachment hearings, but the Republicans will hammer him on his relationship with the alleged Chinese spy Christine Fang
I honestly donāt care what the Republicans say, heās a great representative and thatās what we need. Look at what theyāre saying about Biden while heās doing a pretty great job. It doesnāt matter.
Iām just saying it wouldnāt be a cakewalk with Swalwell. Honestly I donāt think itās possible for any candidate to have a sweeping victory like Reagan vs Mondale anymore. The voters loyal to Trump at this point are just frothing at the mouth for a dictator. That alone should give any Democratic nominee a cakewalk victory, but we all saw how close the 2020 election was. The Republicans will use Christine Zang to whip up the MAGA base and that will be enough to make it close, at least without a double-digit surge in voter turnout. But again, if defeating the literal fascists isnāt enough to bring out the non-voters, then I canāt believe there exists a candidate who can motivate the independent and progressive non-voters to come out and vote with the liberals and centrists.
Trump had private meetings with Putin and does Putinās bidding, do you really think theyāll have a leg to stand on? A bunch of them went to celebrate the 4th of July in Russia. You keep saying her name over and over and I had to look her up. They got nothing.
No, I donāt. But that doesnāt matter to the republican voters. And thatās where I think the original assertion that the democractic party would have a cakewalk in 2024 with a candidate who is under 65 falls apart (letās be honest, by definition a non-viable candidate canāt win, and Trump changed the definition of viable in 2016).
You and I know that. But when Swalwell was seeing his approval ratings going up during Trumpās first impeachment hearing, this story is exactly what the republicans drudged up against him. And loyal republican voters will bring it up again if he runs for president again. And theyāll have no problem saying they have to vote against Swalwell because of it.
I like Swalwell. I would vote for him in the general if heās the nominee based on what I know right now. But Iām saying I donāt think there is any candidate who could unify the progressive, liberal, centrist, independent, and non-voters enough to make the election a cakewalk. It should have been a cakewalk in 2016, but it wasnāt. It should have been a cakewalk in 2020 but Trump actually received more votes than in 2016. He actually won the second most votes in the history of the country in 2020! And heās out here spouting literal fascism, while actively being prosecuted for like 100 felonies, including trying to subvert our democracy (ie fascism) and heās trouncing the other republican primary candidates! Heās polling over 50% in the primary, and the second place candidate has less than a third of that!
The democrats could run literally Jesus, and I still think it would be a close election due him being a Jewish immigrant who hangs out with poor people and prostitutes (bunch of welfare moochers who just want free stuff and promote crime, think of the children), preaches we should sell our belongings to fund clothing, feeding, and sheltering the poor (communism!), and the whole love your neighbor thing (ie heād probably tell Israel to chill out and be nice to the Palestinians, so that would totally ruin the Evangelicalsā plans for armageddon and the rapture).
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Right. Hence why I donāt think there will ever be a cakewalk of an election.