Joe Biden swipes at Bernie Sanders as the Iowa caucuses close in,,,,Go Joe...😎🎨

Former Vice President Joe Biden took a direct swipe at Bernie Sanders on Thursday, noting that the senator from Vermont, one of his top competitors in Iowa's caucuses just days away, is not a Democrat.
Biden told reporters that the contrast between Sanders and him is "self-evident," and when asked to expand, said simply, "I'm a Democrat."
Pressed on whether he believes that means Sanders is not, he said, "Well, he says he's not. He's not registered as a Democrat."

Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, signed a Democratic Party pledge last year affirming that he would run for president as a Democrat and would serve as one if elected.
Biden continued Thursday that another difference between the two is that Sanders has not acknowledged how much his health care plan will cost, whereas Biden said he had.
"Everything I've suggested to you, that I want to do, I've figured how to pay for it. He's acknowledged he doesn't even know what 'Medicare for All' is going to cost, and how he's going to do it. How do you get something done that way?" Biden said at an impromptu Dairy Queen stop in Pella, Iowa.




https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-iowa/index.html


















Go Joe....😎🎨

Voters Really Want Joe Biden To Pick A Woman For Vice President......👩🏻👱🏻‍♀️

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― Beth Gelding, a retired librarian in this university town, is a committed Joe Biden supporter in next week’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. She thinks he’s ready to deal with international leaders and Republicans on “day one” of his presidency. She’s even hosting a Biden campaign staffer at her house.

She’s also already making plans for his vice president. “We’re all assuming it’s going to be a woman,” she said after a Biden rally at the University of Iowa on Monday night. “We’re all thinking that this person can pick up the baton in four years.”

Biden, more so than any presidential candidate in recent memory, has faced intense speculation and questioning from his supporters about who he would select as vice president. Participants at events often ask him how he would make his pick ― a question rarely posed to the other candidates in the sprawling field of Democrats seeking the nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in November.

There’s a multitude of reasons for voters to be curious about who Biden, a front-runner for the Democratic nomination, might select as vice president. Biden will be 78 by 2021’s Inauguration Day, which would make him the oldest person to assume the presidency, and there have long been rumblings he might serve only a single term at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It also reflects the rise of pundit voters ― the highly informed primary voters who are trying to craft a dream ticket in order to put the biggest electoral hurt on Republicans.

But many voters, especially women, are also looking for reassurances that Biden will select a woman. They hope that picking the candidate they view as having the best chance of beating Trump doesn’t mean giving up on making history.

“It’s been a long time since Geraldine Ferraro,” said Marjorie Tully, another Biden supporter who works at the university hospital here. Ferraro, a New Jersey congresswoman at the time, was Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984 when he challenged President Ronald Reagan.


Absolutely. The right woman,” said Ellen Nelson, a nonprofit fundraiser who attended a Biden event in the Des Moines suburb of Waukee on Thursday. “It’s about time.”



https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/voters-want-to-know-joe-biden-vice-president-pic-104500783.html



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Biden's Supporters Say They Want A President Who Knows How They Feel...😎🎨

At a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Wednesday night, a couple hundred people listened to Joe Biden describe what he plans to do if he wins his 2020 presidential bid: he’ll re-join the Paris Climate Accord, legislate a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, and reverse some of President Donald Trump’s tariff-heavy trade policies. But throughout the nearly two-hour event, the former Vice President routinely returned to an overarching theme: pain and suffering. His own. Other people’s. The nation’s.
Directly addressing a group of local firefighters in the crowd, Biden rattled through a litany of personal tragedies in which he has relied on first-responders: the 1972 car accident that claimed the lives of his first wife and his baby daughter, the 1980s cranial aneurysm that required he undergo a 13-hour surgery in the middle of a snowstorm, and the 2004 lightning strike that set his home ablaze. “They come, and god forbid, you lose your house, your house burns down — they are out there with a boot on the corner raising money to help you rebuild your house,” he said


We also need a president who is compassion, and understands people,s needs ..not anger like Trump...Joe is that person...





https://time.com/5774325/joe-biden-suffering-iowa/

Why Joe Biden is 'the man to win the presidency,' says former Obama official 😎🎨

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate best fit to defeat President Donald Trump in the general election in November, says former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who served with Biden in the Obama administration.

Biden is “the man to win the presidency,” says Pritzker, in a newly released interview with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer.

Besides Biden’s electability, Pritzker pointed to his experience under Obama and as a U.S. Senator.

“I think the vice president has the experience, both in domestic policy and politics, as well as globally the respect, in order to put the United States rightfully in the place it ought to be,” says Pritzker, a major Democratic fundraiser who spoke to Serwer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week.

“Whether it's a leader in our economic policy, a leader in terms of our attitude towards multilateralism, or a leader in terms of the stature of the United States around the world, all of which are extraordinarily important,” she adds.

Pritzker, a billionaire heiress to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and sister of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, endorsed Biden’s candidacy earlier this month. In recent weeks, Biden has faced a difficult stretch in the campaign, as the impeachment trial has drawn attention to false but widespread allegations about misconduct committed by his son Hunter Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders surges in the polls.

Democratic primary voters will cast their first ballots on Monday, Feb. 3 in Iowa, followed soon after by contests in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina — all of which will take place in February.




Pritzker made the comments during a conversation that aired in an episode of Yahoo Finance’s “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” a weekly interview series with leaders in business, politics, and entertainment.

After serving as national finance chair for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, she took a seat on Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and his Economic Recovery Advisory Board. From 2013 to 2017, she held the position of Secretary of Commerce. Currently, she sits on the Microsoft (MSFT) board and is chairman of PSP Partners, a private investment firm

The international standing of the U.S. has declined under Trump, Pritzker said.

“I stay close to my peers, when I was in government, both in the United States and outside the United States,” she says. “Right now, many would say to me, the United States is off the playing field, or we don't think about what the United States is going to react if we take action whereas we used to.”

Such circumstances require a reliable, longstanding leader like Biden, she added.

The vice president is the person with the integrity and the experience to deal with the situation that our country faces today,” she says.





https://news.yahoo.com/penny-pritzker-weighs-on-in-joe-biden-133257605.html





You are the one Go Joe....

Rep. Brad Schneider endorses Joe Biden,,, Yea Joe....😎🎨

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., on Wednesday, with the suburban Chicago lawmaker telling the Sun-Times that having the ex-vice president at the top of the ticket will help Democrats keep control of the House of Representatives.
Schneider becomes the highest-ranking current elected official in Illinois to endorse Biden; the state’s primary is March 17.
Biden “is the candidate that can unite us, who can bring the party together. He is the one who is most electable. There is a united purpose among all Democrats that we have to beat Donald Trump. And I think there is a strong sense of many that Joe Biden is the best one to do that,” Schneider said.
Schneider said Biden is in the best position to bring together “Democrats that span the entire spectrum of our party. … And I really do believe that Joe Biden is best positioned to bring voters out to unite the party and ensure that we hold the majority in the House; hopefully, are able to take the majority in the Senate and get to a place where we can govern and move this country forward.”
Schneider, from Deerfield, represents the 10th Congressional District, taking in suburbs stretching west from Lake Michigan in Cook and Lake counties. He is a co-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s frontline program, designed to bolster Democrats in swing districts. The DCCC is the House political operation.
The Illinois frontliners are freshmen Reps. Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten; their victories in 2018 helped give the Democrats control of the House. Schneider said Biden at the top of the ticket would boost the re-election bid of Underwood and Casten.




https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/1/29/21113537/joe-biden-brad-schneider-endorse-democratic-presidential-primary-congress-house

Could Biden steamroll the Democratic field......😎🎨

Disdained by the chattering classes, rejected by progressives and bad debate reviews, Joe Biden was supposed to have eroded away by now. But the former vice president has persevered and could be on the cusp of sweeping aside the entire Democratic field. After Super Tuesday, the race could essentially be over.
Biden benefits from a field of weak opponents, none of whom could sustain their brief polling bumps, a significant reduction in the number of caucuses and that nature of primary voting — where momentum for the frontrunner builds and the laggards quickly collapse. Only Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) poses a challenge, and there is plenty of angst about him.
The most important dynamic for Biden is that the race is rapidly narrowing to Biden vs. Sanders. Once promising candidates have dropped out (Kamala Harris, Corey Booker). Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) were not able to sustain their momentary polling jumps. For Buttigieg and Warren, their moment has passed — it is very rare that voters return to candidates they sampled and rejected. Too bad for Warren that newspaper endorsements are worthless. That leaves Joe and Bernie.

Make no mistake, Sanders is a tough out. His supporters are dedicated and won’t abandon him, even if he starts to lag. Sanders leads most polls in Iowa (but not all) and will certainly win New Hampshire.
But Sanders has two problems. First, Democratic voters view Biden as a stronger candidate against Donald Trump and put beating the president as their number one priority (69 percent to 31 percent). Democratic voters view Biden as a winner against Trump, with 65 percent thinking he can win to 13 percent who think he can’t, while Sanders only polls 52 percent to 26 percent. Both totals top the Democratic field.
Second, the Democrats’ nomination process has become much less favorable for Sanders by replacing caucuses with primaries.


Sanders’ ability to string out the 2016 nomination contest was propped up by caucuses. He won 11 of 13 caucuses — he only lost Iowa (barely) and Nevada, which were very high turnout caucuses. After Nevada, caucus turnout fell significantly, leaving the process dominated by progressive activists — and thus benefiting Sanders.
Of the 21 contests Sanders won after New Hampshire, 11 were caucuses and the 10 primary victories included his home state of Vermont and fellow New England state, Rhode Island. Sanders averaged 67.2 percent of the vote in the caucuses he won (64.3 percent in all causes) but only 54.8 percent in primaries held outside his home base of New England. Clinton won 27 of the 38 primaries and all the big states — except Michigan, which she lost by just 1.4 percent.
The Bernie Bros can carp about a stolen race all they want, but the fact is that Democratic voters decisively rejected him.

With 9 of those 11 caucuses now primaries, Sanders has taken a serious structural hit to his prospects in 2020.
Sanders’ other important base of support in 2016 was the upper Midwest. Outside of New England Sanders only won 8 primaries, three of which were Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana. He polled strongly in Illinois and won the Minnesota caucus (62 percent to 38 percent). But Biden is no Hillary Clinton. Biden has a clear blue-collar appeal, in contrast to Clinton, the New York insider. Biden leads in recent polls (December-January) in both Michigan and Ohio, which vote in mid-March, only trailing in Wisconsin, which doesn’t vote until April 7.
Key for Biden is winning Iowa — as he will lose New Hampshire (the highly insular Democratic voters from the Granite State always vote for candidates from neighboring states). Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) will be out after Iowa, and Buttigieg will be out after New Hampshire. Their moderate voters lean decidedly toward Biden. With more moderate voters up for grabs, Biden is in position to win the Nevada caucus (he has a slight lead in recent polling). Biden is certain to win South Carolina convincingly.
After South Carolina, Super Tuesday looms. Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee will go for Biden. Vermont and Maine will go for Sanders, and Massachusetts for Warren. Critical will be California, Texas, Virginia and Colorado. Very little recent (January) polling exists for these states, but Biden is up 20 points in Texas and California is a mixed bag. In 2016, Sanders lost Texas and Virginia by roughly 30 points each and California by 7 points. He won Colorado, but that was a caucus state in 2016 and is now a primary state.


A near sweep by Biden on Super Tuesday would effectively end the race. Sanders won’t get out, but there won’t be much of a path forward for him

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/480424-could-biden-steamroll-the-democratic-field








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DNC heads to Iowa to help protect caucuses from digital attacks and disinform 😎🎨

Clinton says she feels the 'urge' to defeat Trump in 2020....Thank-you Hillary 👱🏻‍♀️

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a recent interview that she feels "the urge" to beat President Trump in the coming election, and pledged to everything she can to "help elect the Democratic nominee" this year.

Clinton's comments came in response to a question she was asked in an interview with Variety at the Sundance Film Festival, where her docu-series "Hillary" is appearing. During the interview, which was published on Tuesday, a reporter asked Clinton if she ever feels "the urge to think: 'I could beat Donald Trump if I were running.'"

"Yeah," Clinton replied. "I certainly feel the urge because I feel the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome.

"And the more we learn, the more that seems to be the case," she continued. "But I'm going to support the people who are running now and do everything I can to help elect the Democratic nominee."

She made similar comments earlier this month after she prompted a whirlwind of criticism for remarks she made about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leading 2020 Democratic presidential contender, in her forthcoming Hulu docu-series, which is set to drop on the streaming platform in early March.

In the documentary, she said that "nobody likes Sanders [or] wants to work with him," adding: "He was a career politician. It's all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

After receiving backlash for the comments, which ended up sparking viral praise for Sanders among his fans on Twitter, Clinton vowed to support whichever Democratic candidate wins the nomination.

"I thought everyone wanted my authentic, unvarnished views!" she tweeted. "But to be serious, the number one priority for our country and world is retiring Trump, and, as I always have, I will do whatever I can to support our nominee."

During her interview with Variety, Clinton was also pressed about whether she knows who she wants to vote for in this year's Democratic primary, as the first-in-the-nation caucuses approach in Iowa next week.

"I'm going to vote," she said. "I'm going to leave it at that. I'll definitely vote. I vote every time there's an election.

"And I am telling everybody here at Sundance, everywhere I go, please, please go out and vote," she added. "And then, whoever the nominee is, support the nominee, whether it's someone you voted on or not in the primary process, because the most important responsibility we all have is to retire Donald Trump





https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/480343-clinton-says-she-feels-the-urge-to-defeat-trump-in-2020?amp=1&_recirculation=1






You always be the one who really Won 2016
Base on my opinion it was stolen from you....






I will always be with her...thank-you

Go Joe …...😎

Congressman Tim Ryan stumps for Biden ahead of caucus...Go Joe....🎨😎🦩

On Saturday U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan (D) of Ohio’s 13th District came to Reno to help rally voters for Joe Biden. He attended a caucus training organized by local firefighters urging them to focus on defeating President Trump.

About 26 people attended the training, including seven firefighters from Local 731, and 22 from Operating Engineers Local 3 in Reno. He spoke for about 30 minutes about Biden and the election, and also about where he comes from in Ohio.
“It’s older industrial, steel, rubber. I have an Akron city background that’s built the old rubber Mills, the old steel mills, the auto plants that you should have 16,000 workers in, and they’re now down. It’s actually closed. We’re trying to get an electric vehicle plant in there. But that’s kind of where I grew up, where I came from.”
Ryan mentioned other Democratic campaigns and their themes, with a bit of veiled reference to candidate Bernie Sanders. He also talked about his personal and Democratic family roots, along with the importance of defeating Donald Trump and bringing the nation back together after the election.
“But to me, we hear a lot of talk about revolutions, and revolutions, and wanting to start a revolution. In my mind, the revolution is getting Donald Trump out of the White House! That’s the revolution. And then we gotta bring the country together.







https://thisisreno.com/2020/01/congressman-tim-ryan-stumps-for-biden-ahead-of-caucus/

Joe Biden gains SC endorsements from former Kamala Harris co-chairs ....😎🎨 🚒Go Joe...

Two Democratic women who helped lead Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in South Carolina are now endorsing Joe Biden in the state’s first-in-the-South presidential primary.

Marguerite Willis and Melissa Watson told The Post and Courier on Monday they plan to support the former vice president because they see him as the candidate who can beat President Donald Trump, prioritize the needs of teachers and lead on foreign policy.

Willis, a former gubernatorial candidate and Florence attorney, used a metaphor to explain her decision and compared the nation to being like a house ablaze.

“If my house is on fire, I don’t need someone with a plan or someone to redesign my house,” Willis said, in a swipe she confirmed was directed at candidates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others proposing major plans and visions.



Right now, I need a fireman with a hose — someone who is going to come in and put out this fire, and get us to a point where we can take a breath, assess the damage done and begin to rebuild.”

Watson, the former Berkeley County Democratic Party chairwoman who recently stepped down to launch a congressional run in South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, said she personally met with almost all of the Democratic presidential candidates.

She said Biden’s response to the Jan. 3 airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani impressed her.

“Foreign policy was not always something that was at the top of my list, but after that it was,” she said. “I kept thinking who is the best person to handle a country in crisis? Who can comfort a nation and who can lead it?”





https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/elections/joe-biden-gains-sc-endorsements-from-former-kamala-harris-co/article_bf3b4c44-412e-11ea-ae88-ab6d8ec2c46b.html









Joe is only who can put out the fire. Go Joe....😎🎨🚒