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Biden goes big without sounding like it

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  1. [3]
    knocklessmonster
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    I actually like how Biden's campaign is shaping up. He's playing it smart, trying to get the more progressive left, without alienating the critical less-progressive voters, and he may even be able...

    I actually like how Biden's campaign is shaping up. He's playing it smart, trying to get the more progressive left, without alienating the critical less-progressive voters, and he may even be able to get Republicans to vote for him, which would have been unheard of two years ago. Unfortunately, i have to admit that I like his politicking, but he's playing a good game so far.

    Now, the campaign and the presidency are two different things, but if he holds to his word (really high hopes there for a president), it would be a vast improvement over Trump, and he may get a bit more done than Obama, who was hamstrung by Congress.

    18 votes
    1. [2]
      stu2b50
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      Tbh if he has the physical and mental ability to read paragraphs in English, it would be a vast improvement over Trump. I'm not very worried about a Biden administration's relative performance.

      but if he holds to his word (really high hopes there for a president), it would be a vast improvement over Trump

      Tbh if he has the physical and mental ability to read paragraphs in English, it would be a vast improvement over Trump. I'm not very worried about a Biden administration's relative performance.

      11 votes
      1. knocklessmonster
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        I didn't even mean that in the sense that Trump set the bar really low.

        I didn't even mean that in the sense that Trump set the bar really low.

        2 votes
  2. Kuromantis
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    Almost halfway through Chris Wallace’s July 19 interview with Donald Trump, an exchange occurred that encapsulates the current state of the presidential race. The president claimed that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, “wants to defund the police.” Wallace contradicted him, which led a furious Trump to instruct his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to “get me the charter” of the unity task force that the Biden campaign had created with Bernie Sanders supporters. After riffling unsuccessfully through the document, Trump muttered, “We’ll find it.” But, as Wallace told viewers, “The White House never sent us evidence the Bernie-Biden platform calls for defunding or abolishing police—because there is none.”

    By repeatedly stopping short of the left’s most ambitious—and most politically incendiary—proposals, Biden has created an agenda that is less progressive than Sanders’s or Warren’s would have been. (On foreign policy, the contrast between Biden and Sanders is even greater.) But as Waleed Shahid, the communications director for Justice Democrats, told Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, Biden is still running on “the most progressive platform of any Democratic nominee in the modern history of the party.”

    It’s a shrewd strategy. Biden is allowing progressive activists to push him left—just not so far left that he’d be an easy mark for the GOP.

    7 votes