Good spot. Gabby Giffords is the nominee. Did not see that one coming.
What baggage in particular, out of curiosity? Serious question.
Same type of stuff Hillary brought in 2016. People donât like her, they donât really know why, they just donât. They heard something somewhere and the name just doesnât sit well. Thatâs not their kind of gal. They canât even explain it. The right, with a hard assist from the MSM over the eight Obama years, did a great job of dragging her to the point that they can just say her name and people will involuntarily hiss. Itâs like nominating Soros. Nobody knows why they donât like him, they just donât.
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Predictit comments probably not reliable but there may be an announcement at 2:45.
Shoulda got more votes then
Riceâs baggage isnât even based in reality. The only people it matters to at all were always voting Trump. I personally think it is a good pick and continues to draw on the only reason Joe won the primary and will likely win this election, Obama.
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Of course it isnât based in reality lol neither is Sorosâ. Neither was a lot of Hillaryâs. It doesnât matter you know that.
And Iâm not worried about the Fox News/OAN mainliners, their minds are made up of course. Itâs the trash pile dwellers in MSM like Tuck Chodd and replacement level NYT columnists who repeatedly give life to the nonsense. It doesnât have to win over the masses. Just enough to tilt the scales. Why risk it is all Iâm saying?
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I am probably setting myself up for disappointment but do you really think the MSM is going to hammer her on BENGHAZZZZIIIIII when we have 35,000 Americans dying a month right now from Trumpâs incompetence?
Also doesnât Kamala have plenty she could be drug on as well?
Yes.
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One theory is that you pick your running mate based on your current polling. If you have a comfortable lead, you go with someone seen as safe (Biden, Kaine), if you are behind, you pick someone who will shake up your campaign (Palin, Ryan). I think thatâs why itâs Kamala or Whitmer. Rice is probably a great person to have as SoS or CoS, but she brings an element of risk to the campaign that Biden doesnât need right now. Honestly sheâs probably more valuable to the Govt in one of those 2 positions. Itâs not clear she has presidential aspirations anyways, so why make her the presumptive next Dem nominee.
We know that Benghazi was an effective attack against Hillary 4 years ago, and Iâm sure the Trump campaign would love to go for round 2. Itâs less likely to work this time around, but why even risk it?
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On Tuesday, Warren will host another event for Biden, alongside Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), with tickets ranging from $250 to $25,000, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.
I wonder if itâs in a wine cave?
>Raking in big cash for the nominee is not limited to vice presidential candidates, of course. Pete Buttigieg, his onetime rival in the Democratic primary whoâs seen as a likely appointee in a Biden administration, has raised more than $6.7 million through events, emails and digital ads for the campaign, according to a source familiar with the total.
I donât think theyâll hammer her, but theyâll âboth sidesâ it, bringing up Benghazi and the tarmac conversation as a âRepublicans are sayingâ or âTrumpâs camp is sayingâ issue.
I think this is overly strategic. I think Biden picks Rice because heâs always been focused on foreign policy and worked with her on foreign policy during the Obama administration. He knows her, likes her, and trusts her. I donât think the same is true of most other VP hopefuls.
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OK.
But thereâs no way that if he nominates any other woman we wonât find out the same thing about them eventually. âJust donât like the gal, not sure why. No, itâs not cuz Fox keeps saying she slept to the top, or is a Fauxcahontos, or muzzled all the freedoms in Michigan or âŚâ
Expecting anything different and using that to guide your choice would be incredibly stupid imo.
Dude sitting in chair outside meme:
Those are all better reasons to make Susan Rice Chief of Staff or Secretary of State, change my mind.
VP is an elected position. The person on the ticket needs to be a politician people can see as presiden, especially when the nominee is 77, not a bureaucrat. Iâm not a fan of VP or POTUS being someone who has never held elected office. Thereâs a different level of accountability and calculus that needs to go into your decision making than when you work an appointed government job.
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I donât think youâre necessarily wrong, I think there are two considerations for VP:
- Whoâs going to best help me win?
- Whoâs going to best help me govern in the way I want?
Your argument is that Biden should focus on the first. I think Biden is likely to focus on the second, at least partially because he recognizes thereâs a real chance that VP replaces him at some point.
Snake
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