Back to Alabama. Senate race called with Sessions at 33%, Tuberville at 30% and Byrne at 28%. So Jeff and Tubs will have a runoff March 31. Winner will win back Jones' seat in November.
(03-04-2020 12:29 AM)WKUYG Wrote: If this comes down to Biden vs Trump, it will, those of you that think what Biden said over the last 2 months matters are fooling yourself. When he wins the ticket no one in the media is going to call Biden out on all the off the wall things he says. As we seen over the past 2 weeks...
democrats dont care if he's crazy, acting like he's crazy or dont know which election he's running for. The media is going to push Biden and make him look like the 2nd coming of Reagan, JFK and Obama. Especially in those battle ground states, the ones that really matter...
Trump, the racist, will be shouted so often the closer we get to Nov. Every little thing Trump says that can be twisted will be. Biden can come out threaten to stop fracking, shutdown all coal, and open the border, on the campaign trial. The press will never question him on it and it will never get the air time. Hell Trump can say black Friday is going to be huge. The media will scream, racist, because Trump said black. Some people are getting too caught up in twitter reactions...the same way democrats did with Trump. Causing them to believe Hillary was going to win easily.
Sanders going down like he has and democrats falling in line for Biden...is not good news for Trump
Its never mattered as that was always going to be the outcome. What matters is we have 2 more months of Bernie, Warren, and perhaps Bloomberg hammering at Biden. Two more months of Biden gaffs. Two more months of odd Biden behavior. Also, as the front runner---Bernie has received most of the critical attention from the press and other candidates for the last 2 weeks. Thats about to change. Now Biden's gaffs and antics will be front and center again.
Here's the biggest problem for Biden in the general election. He needs an absolutely HUGE boost from the African American vote. Honestly---African Americans have done very well under Trump and Trumps polling numbers with that group have improved drastically. I suspect Trump will get twice as many votes from the black community than he did in 2016. In other words---Biden will have to win getting a smaller percentage of the African American vote than Hillary got. Good luck with that strategy.
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Biden needs a strong VP candidate and to basically avoid any public speaking for 6 months now. The other interesting thing to watch is will Bernie Sanders actually come after him hard? You wonder if that will happen - they do seem to be buddies from the Senate. I know his crazies will attack him online (and by crazies I don't mean the few folks here on this site who like him - they don't fit into that category - but he's got plenty of true crazies who love him on social media).
One stunning local race last night was the Republican primary for House Seat 22. Troy Nehls (who quit his job as Fort Bend Sheriff to run for the seat) won and avoided a runoff with like 52 percent of the vote. He beat a huge field of bigger names including Kathaleen Wall who has a rich husband and cute last name, but who is now officially the Hillary Clinton of the local Republican Party having proven no one can stand her. Pierce Bush (grandson of George - one of Neil's kids) also was in the teens in terms of votes, but he's young so it's too early to cast off all his future political aspirations. I still think Dems can win that seat in November (they have a strong candidate who won like 60 percent of the primary vote himself), but Nehls is going to be a much tougher candidate than I would have expected).
ETA - whoops totally forgot to look at the other counties for House Seat 22. Once you add in Harris and Brazoria County votes, Nehls and Wall are now in a run-off. Still, Nehls got like 41-42 percent overall and will destroy Wall in a run-off election IMO. My description of Wall doesn't change. She's the lady who got shocked by Dan Crenshaw in 2018 in a House seat on the other side of Houston. Doesn't matter which part of town she runs in, no one really likes her or is impressed by her money or last name.
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The other thing with Biden to watch is will Trump change his nickname? I just don't think Sleepy Joe has much of an impact. Trump's dad (Fred Trump) died of Alzheimer's so maybe it's a slippery slope his son doesn't want to go down. Time will tell I suppose.
I think I'd rather have Dr. Jill Biden as the president than her husband. Here she is fending off one of the two protesters in California that interrupted Joe's speech ('Eat Dairy, Die' is what their signs say).
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2020 08:15 AM by Fort Bend Owl.)
(03-04-2020 06:32 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Biden needs a strong VP candidate and to basically avoid any public speaking for 6 months now. The other interesting thing to watch is will Bernie Sanders actually come after him hard? You wonder if that will happen - they do seem to be buddies from the Senate. I know his crazies will attack him online (and by crazies I don't mean the few folks here on this site who like him - they don't fit into that category - but he's got plenty of true crazies who love him on social media).
One stunning local race last night was the Republican primary for House Seat 22. Troy Nehls (who quit his job as Fort Bend Sheriff to run for the seat) won and avoided a runoff with like 52 percent of the vote. He beat a huge field of bigger names including Kathaleen Wall who has a rich husband and cute last name, but who is now officially the Hillary Clinton of the local Republican Party having proven no one can stand her. Pierce Bush (grandson of George - one of Neil's kids) also was in the teens in terms of votes, but he's young so it's too early to cast off all his future political aspirations. I still think Dems can win that seat in November (they have a strong candidate who won like 60 percent of the primary vote himself), but Nehls is going to be a much tougher candidate than I would have expected).
ETA - whoops totally forgot to look at the other counties for House Seat 22. Once you add in Harris and Brazoria County votes, Nehls and Wall are now in a run-off. Still, Nehls got like 41-42 percent overall and will destroy Wall in a run-off election IMO. My description of Wall doesn't change. She's the lady who got shocked by Dan Crenshaw in 2018 in a House seat on the other side of Houston. Doesn't matter which part of town she runs in, no one really likes her or is impressed by her money or last name.
how about TT vs Sesshee in bammers....that was a nice surprise....
I'm certain JR was still licking the bbg off the fingertips after that one....
(03-04-2020 02:12 AM)TripleA Wrote: AP just called Texas for Biden. 33.1% to Bernie's 29.7%. Bloomie at 15.1%. Warren at 11.6%.
Biden with 602,011 votes, Bernie 539,343. Bloomie 272,774 and Warren 210,415.
93% of votes in. 228 delegates available tonight. 34 additional unpledged (DNC and U.S. Reps).
Polls showed Bernie way up on Monday. Oops.
One showed +15, another +10, another +5, another +4, another -2.
They were all over. That Data for Progress did a decent job. They did all the states Monday and got Biden winning Texas and were not horribly off mark in the 4 or 5 states I looked at.
I think I'd rather have Dr. Jill Biden as the president than her husband. Here she is fending off one of the two protesters in California that interrupted Joe's speech ('Eat Dairy, Die' is what their signs say).
Maybe you should run for POTUS. At least you know which one is Biden's wife and which one is his sister.
Sanders may be in trouble. Michael Moore is attacking Buttigieg and Klobuchar.
Wonder if this sits on those two like Henry Clay's deal with John Quincy Adams to defeat Andrew Jackson. It was an albatross around Henry Clay's neck. Only person to lose 3 times on a national ticket-1824, 1832, 1844.
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