2020 US Presidential Election

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Eric Quintanar - The Daily Wire




While campaigning on behalf of former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) had an embarrassing verbal flub when she accidentally told a crowd of Biden supporters that she was joining the ticket as the nominee’s vice president.

According to Amanda Golden of NBC News, Klobuchar had a “bit of a Freudian slip” when the former Democratic presidential candidate said she “couldn’t think of a better way to end my candidacy than join the ticket.”

After the statement, the crowd applauded the senator. Klobuchar, however, immediately backtracked, amending her remarks to note that she was joining the “terrific campaign of Joe Biden,” not the Democrats’ general election ticket itself.

Klobuchar dropped out of the primary race ahead of Super Tuesday, throwing her support behind Biden, which likely contributed to the former vice president’s success in her home state of Minnesota and potentially more places.

While the Biden campaign has not indicated that they have chosen a vice presidential nominee, Biden has told reporters previously that he wants a woman to accompany him on the ticket.

As the Daily Wire previously reported, Biden revealed during a town hall last November that he was considering four women for the slot. Although he declined to name them directly, fearing that “the press will think that’s who I picked,” Biden offered plenty of details to piece together who he was talking about.

Biden then described four women, starting with “the former assistant attorney general who got fired,” a reference to former Assistant AG Sally Yates, who was axed by President Trump after she refused to enforce his travel ban in early 2017.

Biden then suggested “the woman who should have been the governor of Georgia,” an overt reference to failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has refused to fully concede the race she lost to Republican Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes, blaming supposed racist voter suppression despite no evidence to corroborate her claims….

The third and fourth potential running mates Biden floated were “the two senators from the state of New Hampshire,” a reference to Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Maggie Hassan (D).

However, the remarks were made shortly before Senator Kamala Harris (CA-D) dropped out of the race, and Business Insider recently reported that a Democratic operative working closely with the campaign believes Biden will pick the California Senator as his running mate.

“I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Kamala Harris,” the source told the news agency. “I actually think [she] is pretty pragmatic. I think Kamala Harris is closer to Joe Biden’s form of politics than she ever was to the stuff she was trying to do on the campaign.”

Biden has also acknowledged that Harris would be a potential choice for anything from the Supreme Court to a vice presidential nominee pick. But former Second Lady Jill Biden recently remarked that the California senator delivered a gut punch after she attacked Biden in a debate over forced bussing policies last year.

“Our son, Beau, spoke so highly of her and, you know, and how great she was,” said Jill Biden, referencing her late son. “And not that she isn’t, I’m not saying that. But it was just like a punch to the gut. It was a little unexpected.”

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News




Underscoring what’s at stake for his White House bid when Michigan and five other states hold Democratic presidential nomination contests on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasizes that “this is a very, very important day in Michigan.”

Speaking in front of more than 10,000 people at a rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the populist senator from Vermont on Sunday spotlighted that Michigan’s “the most important state” to hold a contest on March 10, which is being dubbed ‘mini Super Tuesday’ or ‘Super Tuesday 2.0.’

With 125 pledged delegates at stake, Michigan is the biggest prize among the six states holding contests on Tuesday. The others are Missouri, Mississippi, Washington state, Idaho and North Dakota.

Sanders, a populist senator who’s making his second-straight presidential run, defeated eventual nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016's primary in Michigan, in what was considered a major upset victory. That foreshadowed Clinton’s narrow loss to Donald Trump in the November 2016 general election in Michigan. Trump’s victory with working-class white voters in the state, as well as similar narrow wins in two other crucial Rust Belt states – Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – propelled him to the White House.

The pre-Michigan primary polls in 2016 got it all wrong – as they indicated Clinton with a double-digit lead over Sanders.

“The 2016 Michigan Democratic primary is considered to be the biggest polling miss of that cycle. Polls released in the week before the state primary showed Hillary Clinton with anywhere from a 10 to 27 point lead," noted Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray.

Fast forward four years and former Vice President Joe Biden’s now the clear front-runner in Michigan with the final polls released on primary eve indicating the former vice president with a double-digit lead over Sanders.

But Sanders is holding out hope for a repeat performance that would stave off elimination and instead boost the senator back into a massive battle with Biden for the nomination.

An optimistic Sanders predicted on Fox News Sunday “I think we're gonna do well on Tuesday, and we're gonna beat Biden.”



While a loss would be considered a setback, Sanders doesn’t see such a prospect as fatal.

“I certainly would not consider dropping out,” he stressed.

Sanders was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination after winning the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary and then shellacking the field a week and a half later at the Nevada caucuses. But thanks to his landslide victory in South Carolina a week and a half ago – and a strong performance during last week’s Super Tuesday when he swept 10 of the 14 states holding primaries on Super Tuesday and took the lead over Sanders in the all-important race for Democratic nomination convention delegates – Biden’s moved closer to locking up the nomination.

Because of its general election political symbolism and the large delegate cache, Michigan’s capturing the lion’s share of media attention among this week’s round of contests.

Biden - very cognizant of the polling debacle in 2016 – stressed on Monday that “I’m kind of superstitious, I see all these polls...I remember Hillary was up by 23 points...I don’t take anything for granted.”

Biden, with an eye on November’s general election, emphasized during a rally Monday in Flint that “Michigan is an important contest not just for the Democratic primary, because the outcome of Michigan in November may determine who the next person United States is going to be.”

The former vice president’s enjoyed a tidal wave of endorsements from current and former members of Congress and governors the past 10 days - as the party establishment and other moderates all coalesced around Biden to prevent Sanders – a self-described democratic socialist – from becoming the party’s standard-bearer in November’s general election.

And many of his former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination have endorsed his White House bid. Two of those one-time rivals – Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California – joined Biden on the campaign trail in Michigan on Monday after backing him just in the past 24 hours.

Sanders, fighting for survival, has increased his jabs at Biden in the wake of Super Tuesday.

At a Fox News town hall on primary eve in Detroit, Sanders charged that Biden had "bailed out the crooks on Wall Street who nearly destroyed our economy 12 years ago."

But he failed to mention that $700 billion rescue plan also had the support of then-presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.

A day earlier in Ann Arbor, Sanders slammed the former vice president - saying “here we are a few days before a major primary here in Michigan. And we are taking on, in this campaign, not just Joe Biden….We're taking on the 60 billionaires who are funding his campaign.

Biden, in a much more comfortable position, has refrained from blasting Sanders. Instead, on Monday he gently jabbed his rival, saying “we’re not looking for a revolution.” The push for a political revolution has long been a staple of Sanders stump speech.

But the former vice president’s aiming for what he hopes will a be a near knockout punch to Sanders.

Democratic strategist Michael Ceraso – a veteran of the 2016 Sanders campaign and the 2020 White House bid by former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg – stressed that a Biden victory in Michigan coupled with likely wins in Missouri and Mississippi will “put a huge hurdle in front of Sanders to get the delegates he needs to win.”

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Charles Creitz | Fox News




Fox News host Sean Hannity said on his syndicated radio show Monday that the mainstream media is purposefully ignoring obvious gaffes and other missteps from 77-year-old Joe Biden, despite hammering then-President Ronald Reagan over similar issues during the 1984 election

"The Sean Hannity Radio Show" host recounted numerous recent head-scratching moments from Biden, including a clip from a weekend rally in St. Louis.

"We cannot reelect -- we cannot win this reelection. We can only reelect Donald Trump," Biden said in a clip that made the rounds on Twitter. However, the social media company slapped Trump with a "manipulated media" warning, as Biden later added that Trump could be reelected if "we get engaged in this circular firing squad here."

In another clip, Biden referred to himself as an "O'Biden-Bama Democrat" -- and Hannity reminded his audience how the former senator appeared to fumble his words and forget the clause "endowed by their Creator" while reciting part of the Declaration of Independence at an earlier event.

"There is something that seems to be accelerating," Hannity said. "When I first noticed Biden getting into this whole thing, [it] looked like he had aged to me -- if he ever had a fastball it's gone. If he ever had a slow pitch it's done too."

Hannity said that during the 1984 race, Reagan, then 73, was being slammed by the media and by Democrats who claimed he was showing signs of early-onset dementia at age 73.

He said a Seattle newspaper had referred to him as "old," and other reports claimed that First Lady Nancy Reagan was "maneuvering" behind the scenes to hide signs of the president's alleged mental decline.

"The mob and the media back in the day, they raised all the questions everywhere -- it was like a mass diagnosis of Ronald Reagan," Hannity continued.

However, Hannity said that Reagan was able to silence many of his critics with a now-iconic exchange with Baltimore Sun correspondent Henry Trewhitt during a debate -- playing the clip on his radio show.

Trewhitt alluded to questions about Reagan's health and age by noting that President John F. Kennedy got very little sleep during the Cuban Missile Crisis and saying that Reagan seemed tired after his previous debate with Democratic nominee Walter Mondale.

"Not at all. Mr. Trewhitt," Reagan said. "I want you to know also that I will not make age an issue of this campaign -- I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." Mondale was 56 at the time.

Turning back to Biden, Hannity reiterated that there has been no similar public questioning of his abilities while reiterating that he was not making any ageist claims and calling Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the "Energizer Bunny" compared to Biden despite suffering a heart attack late last year.

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By Tyler Olson, Allie Raffa | Fox News




Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated and profanity-laced argument with a worker at a Fiat-Chrysler auto plant in Detroit on Tuesday, after the individual accused the Democratic presidential candidate of trying to take away his Second Amendment rights.

"You’re full of sh-- ... I support the Second Amendment," Biden shot back, stressing he's not going to take guns away.

The worker then told Biden, "You're working for me, man," and told Biden that he saw an online video supporting his claim that Biden is hostile to the Second Amendment.

Biden, pointing at the individual as they were mere inches apart in the middle of a crowd, said he's not working for him and told him not to be "such a horse's a--."

Biden, at one point mistakenly referring to "AR-14's," went on to press the individual to acknowledge that machine guns are illegal. Biden appeared to then misspeak in saying AR-15's are illegal, before questioning why anyone needs "100 rounds."

The dispute, caught on camera, happened at the Fiat-Chrysler plant as Biden stumped for votes in Michigan, the biggest prize among the states voting Tuesday with 125 delegates at stake.

Biden earlier told the workers, "You made me a hero when I was getting a lot of heat for the bailout, the rescue ... You guys saved management. Management didn’t save you." He also called the workers, "The best damn workers in the world."

Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir quote tweeted a video of the interaction from a CBS reporter Tuesday that was shared by GOP Rapid Response Director Steve Guest simply saying, "Oh no."

That prompted a response from Symone D. Sanders, a senior advisor to the Biden campaign. She said, "This was predictable."

Biden was previously criticized for apparently offering former presidential contender Beto O'Rourke a gun control role in his administration in a pre-Super Tuesday rally. O'Rourke said last year on the campaign trail, "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."

"I want to make something clear – I'm gonna guarantee you, this is not the last you're seeing of this guy – you're gonna take care of the gun problem with me, you're gonna be the one who leads this effort," Biden said of O'Rourke. "I'm counting on you, I'm counting on you, we need you badly."

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By Paul Bois - The Daily Wire




Continuing her crusade against the Democratic establishment, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) ripped into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and “their corporate media partners” Tuesday for changing the rules of the next Democratic presidential debate, shutting her out of the event.

“You hear a lot of talk. We just celebrated International Women’s Day and the progress that women are making around the world,” Gabbard said on “Fox News at Night,” as reported by The Hill. “But when it comes to actually making sure that — in this presidential primary — that the only woman candidate left in the race, the only woman of color, and the first female combat veteran ever to run for the presidency has a voice, the DNC and their corporate media partners say, ‘No thanks. Actually, that’s not what we want the American people to hear.”

Under previous DNC rules, Gabbard would have been allowed to participate in the next debate, given that she earned one delegate on Super Tuesday in American Samoa’s primary.

Gabbard further argued that the DNC’s decision, barring her from the debate, simply ensures that voters will “not have the opportunity to make that best-informed decision about who our next commander in chief should be.”

“We’re not seeing these other candidates bringing to the forefront the issues that I am about the need to bring, this sea change in our foreign policy, to stop waging these wasteful regime change wars toppling dictators in other countries, the new Cold War nuclear arms race, all of which are not making us any safer,” Gabbard continued. “And instead, redirect our taxpayer dollars towards really serving the very urgent pressing needs that the American people here at home all across the country are very concerned about. Things like the coronavirus, for example.”

Tulsi Gabbard has been at war with the Democratic Party establishment ever since failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tacitly referred to her as a “Russian asset.”

“I think they have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She is the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton said last year without specifically mentioning Gabbard by name. “They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”

“That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset — I mean, totally,” she continued. “They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.”

Gabbard immediately took to Twitter to blast Clinton as “the queen of warmongers.”

“Great! Thank you [Hillary Clinton],” Gabbard said. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.”

“From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why,” she continued. “Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.”

[DemonGeminiX]

Biden: You do not support Americans' constitutionally protected rights to keep and bear arms and you never have.

Gabbard: I don't know about this sea-change or abandoning the new Arm's race crap. The best way to avoid a conflict is to be holding the bigger stick. Your proposed policy would make us weaker in this world.

[Griffin]

I don't understand the democrats. They've been pushing for a woman president for years, but will only give us criminals and nut jobs.
They may not agree with all of Tulsi Gabbards platform but at least she identifies as a dem... isn't that all that matters with them, to identify as something.

[DemonGeminiX]

She doesn't tow the party line.

[Griffin]

That's why we need to get back to a multi party government. This strict 2 party system is ripping this country apart.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's why we need to get back to a multi party government. This strict 2 party system is ripping this country apart.

There are multiple parties, there's just no money. After the democrats and the republicans, the libertarian party would be the next biggest party. They run a fair amount of candidates, but they just don't draw the money required to run huge campaigns.

And as far as the democrats snubbing Tulsi, it's really sad, because she is the ONLY one on the democrat side of things that if a (D) was to defeat Trump in November, I would probably be okay with her as POTUS, because she isn't a far left wing lunatic.

[Griffin]

Here's a good read if interested. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...tution/604213/

[PorkChopSandwiches]

By Tyler Olson, Allie Raffa | Fox News




Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated and profanity-laced argument with a worker at a Fiat-Chrysler auto plant in Detroit on Tuesday, after the individual accused the Democratic presidential candidate of trying to take away his Second Amendment rights.

"You’re full of sh-- ... I support the Second Amendment," Biden shot back, stressing he's not going to take guns away.

The worker then told Biden, "You're working for me, man," and told Biden that he saw an online video supporting his claim that Biden is hostile to the Second Amendment.

Biden, pointing at the individual as they were mere inches apart in the middle of a crowd, said he's not working for him and told him not to be "such a horse's a--."

Biden, at one point mistakenly referring to "AR-14's," went on to press the individual to acknowledge that machine guns are illegal. Biden appeared to then misspeak in saying AR-15's are illegal, before questioning why anyone needs "100 rounds."

The dispute, caught on camera, happened at the Fiat-Chrysler plant as Biden stumped for votes in Michigan, the biggest prize among the states voting Tuesday with 125 delegates at stake.

Biden earlier told the workers, "You made me a hero when I was getting a lot of heat for the bailout, the rescue ... You guys saved management. Management didn’t save you." He also called the workers, "The best damn workers in the world."

Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir quote tweeted a video of the interaction from a CBS reporter Tuesday that was shared by GOP Rapid Response Director Steve Guest simply saying, "Oh no."

That prompted a response from Symone D. Sanders, a senior advisor to the Biden campaign. She said, "This was predictable."

Biden was previously criticized for apparently offering former presidential contender Beto O'Rourke a gun control role in his administration in a pre-Super Tuesday rally. O'Rourke said last year on the campaign trail, "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."

"I want to make something clear – I'm gonna guarantee you, this is not the last you're seeing of this guy – you're gonna take care of the gun problem with me, you're gonna be the one who leads this effort," Biden said of O'Rourke. "I'm counting on you, I'm counting on you, we need you badly."

Its pretty bad when he talks like this and is still getting votes

[DemonGeminiX]

They just don't want Bernie Sanders to win the nomination.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Breaking News: Bernie Sanders is set to give a statement at 1 PM EDT from his home in Vermont after the primary losses yesterday. Maybe he's quitting?