Through my friendship with John Marttila, who ran Joe Biden’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and remained a close adviser until his death in 2018, I had many opportunities to be in Biden’s presence over the past 20 years, usually at fundraisers in Boston and holiday parties at the vice president’s residence. In the last year of John’s life, we spent many hours discussing Biden’s anticipated run for president in 2020.
I realize Biden had to produce a lot of detailed policy plans to help him unite with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, but talking policy will not get Biden over the finish line. Talking policy is just ammo for Trump to depict Biden as out of the mainstream for voters who dislike Trump, but need to be convinced that Biden shares their mainstream values. Biden can talk about policy when he is in the Oval Office.
For the past four months of Covid, the race has indeed been Trump vs. Trump. Trump has badly mishandled the coronavirus response, resulting in more than 160,000 deaths and severe disruption to the economy and record unemployment. Trump also owns his disgraceful actions surrounding the killing of George Floyd, which have driven a wedge through the nation.
As an example, what happens to facilitate or impede the ability of people to vote in Atlanta and surrounding communities in Fulton County will determine whether Biden really has a chance to win Georgia, and whether the Democrats have any real opportunity to win one or both of the U.S. Senate seats up for grabs there.
Trump’s personal attacks on Biden and his family are likely to increase the more desperate Trump becomes. Biden should understand that Trump’s attack on Biden’s son Hunter for serving on the board of the Russian energy company, was just a warmup. Trump and his campaign will soon level unsubstantiated personal attacks on Biden and his family as well as outright lies about Biden’s overall health and fitness for the job.
Biden, however, puts a premium on personal chemistry and loyalty to those who’ve served him for a long time. Reports indicate that Susan Rice is a finalist for the VP slot because of her close working relationship with Biden from the Obama administration. Biden is reportedly very comfortable with Rice because he knows her the best of all the vice presidential contenders on his list.
Romney is very smart , honest and a patriot. Given the damage that Trump has done to America’s leadership position in the world in less than four years, a team of Biden and Romney could restore America’s position of international leadership by the end of his term. And it would send a signal to voters that a Biden administration would work across the aisle to get things done that are in the interest of the American people.
GreatDismal Is it the media's job to make sure elections go down to the wire in order to sell ad space?
michikokakutani So far his campaign has been the most disciplined in recent history
And dementia
Joe Biden is a senile old man with a history of failed presidential campaigns behind him and nothing to run on.
Most of the real concern for President Trump comes from the problems fabricated and communicated by the radical left and lamestream media. They hate America!
You’re not biased at all. Biden is losing his mind and is a bigot. You are Communist. YouAintBlack YouAintDiverse theyllputyoubackinchains poorkidsarejustassmartaswhitekids cmonman Trump2020
he's thinking hard how to dodge the Debates. He has a Doctor's Excuse But his wife said, 'Joe you can't use that' She's thinking about debating The President. i believe
Black voters ask Dreamers about pelosi's lies for votes she stole their dreams and 40 years of promises on equlity for blacks for votes enjoying their fix? Your still standing in the back of the bus in 2020 and will vote democrate again break their chains they still own you.
Biden will NEVER be President
My point of view is that VP pick that Biden chooses will demonstrate his abilities as governing president choose someone like Dan Quail or some one like Joe Biden Mr Trump is dirty fighter and he will go low
Mitt Romney as Secretary of State to try to woo the 3 still uncommitted Republican voters that Biden wants to compromise with the GOP? The GOP that has enabled, protected and assisted trump in destroying our country? That GOP? You're really Mitt's wife using a pen name, right?
Biden is doing just fine! Keep it up Joe! Give ‘em hell!🇺🇸
--- And How Is Biden Reaching Young Voters ?
yes, because we have seen how undisciplined campaigns reap no success.... [rolls eyes]
Be safe, feel healthy and work out. Thank you BernieSanders SpeakerPelosi
Or in other words: He's got a chance, dont eff this up.
lol
China comrade racist bigot Joe Biden racist tirade, past, ineffective political history, problems with plagiarism, and two previous prez runs will torpedo this 💩! Trump 2020 fundraising beats Bidens. Americans aware of this hot mess!🇺🇸a retired Special Agent/military veteran
Biden - the one making racist comments daily ... like he has for 4 decades? Freaking joke and God help us if mr dementia gets elected!
well, that - and he must overcome Trump's Russian-assisted effort to steal the election.....
comeonpeoplepray the great thing about democratic voting process people have to vote Biden cannot get to comfortablebecause it's like sports it's not over until the last second run off the clock .this will go down to the last vote it's like 2016 it could go anyway pray people..
Have people drop off ballots at polling places!!!!! The Usps is a hot mess!
And the post office!
Biden is only incoherent when he’s not reading a TelePrompTer.
Yeah, right
Joe really doesn't have as much of a chance at winning the election as the MSM would like us to believe.
I have no words.
His campaign has been on point. They are simply letting Trump do their work for them. I mean, eliminate social security and Medicare? Old people vote. People who have elderly parents vote. People who have grandparents vote.
Biden doesn’t give one single fuck about the American people, he’s just doing this ( again ) to fulfill his own ambitions of becoming POTUS. Trump is rough around the edges but he’s doing all this for the American people. I know who I’m voting for anyway. The people’s champion
This guy is ignoring the elephant as it stomps all over him lol.
Oh, here we go again. Such a false equivalency between Trump and Biden. Yet here we are.
SMH
rhreid He is not even running Bob. Please try to find out who the Democrats intend to run for President.
We need to come together as a political party to support Biden. We should learn from trumpeters, their leader is a complete Moran and they back him up no matter what.
Here. Some bad pics of Trump showing his age and decline. Fair is fair Politico.
160,000 dead Millions unemployed Millions sick Putin murdering soldiers and Trump does nothing Trump's dismal COVID19 response Trump's mental decline Trump's emolument infractions FOR the republic or against it JoeBaerlein So sick of out of touch old white guys. See ya.
Disagree. We have an embicile there now if only you would report as such.
way to focus on the meaty issues!
Victory LOL BS
He doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
And the less JoeBiden talks, the better. He needs to stick to script & not act like Trump. Biden can win, but he cannot have gaffes. Trump will shoot him self with his stupidity, hate & racism. Biden needs to let Trump sink himself & stick to what his speech writers provide!
Joe Biden - 17 Minutes Of Joe's Melting Brai!
My thought has always been voters can’t be that stupid to vote for ones like Biden/HBO , so election rigged or I was wrong 🤮
Stop pimping traitors.
Undisciplined?
No he doesn’t
An opinion piece for sure😂brain dead Biden has a good chance like Hillary did 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is bs. Trump is the most undisciplined human on the planet. Biden doesn’t need to be held to a higher standard.
And the media, including you all, need to overcome your habit of kissing trumps ass instead of telling the unvarnished truth. For 3.5yrs we’ve watched you all support this lying monster and we’re tired of it
Yes, because that is how his opponent is judged. Right? RIGHT? Could you be more of a hypocrite? mediacomplicit
Oh shut up.
Yeah....and Jim Acosta is a better reporter than Walter Kronkite
Reminder: With Biden there will be a fantastic TEAM of great people he can delegate responsibilities to: young, old and very diverse but most importantly, competent With Trump there is constant chaos, no team, just micro management -firing people constantly which makes us weaker
I think he is the problem this time.
Really? You are a joke of journalism. Biden has to be disciplined? What about the deranged dumpster fire of a President we have now? No wonder people hate the media. STOP both sideism and do you god damn job. All you should be doing is pointing out lies and insanity of trump.
He does. He needs to do the Lincoln bit and let surrogates do his campaigning...both Obama’s, kasich, etc
“Undisciplined”? Have you met Trump?
SPEAK YOUR MIND JOE. FK THOSE HIPOCRITES. YOUR BASE KNOWS YOU. TRUMPS VOTER BASE ARE IDIPTS AND MORONS. UNEDUCATED HIPOCRITES. LIKE THE CABINET MEMBERS WORKING FOR HIM. ALL IN KNEE PADS. WAITING IN LINE. GOP MEMBERS TOO.
The guy is a disaster tossing racist comments from time to time but what do you expect from an old white guy?
He might have to leave the basement and do some real press conferences. Right now he looks weak and old. He's going to show up to the debates talking like a robot with pre-scripted generic answers... he can barely do Skype interview's
He doesn’t have a chance in hell and you know it
Pedo Joe doesn’t have a shot c’mon now
Democrats have a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Very good read. BIDEN SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO SOME OF THESE GREAT POINTS!
Lol
Trump is defunding Social Security & Medicare. He wants to reduce Capital Gains for himself and 1% supporters. And Politico is writing shit like this?
How can anything Biden has ever done be as horrible as what Trump has done. HOW!!! It is just mind blowing how the bar is set so low for Trump. Disgusting. His followers and enablers really are the basket of deplorables. Every single one of them. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
You spelled “ ...he must stop sniffing and groping children...” wrong.
Does anyone know how we can get this politico article to Mr Biden or one of his campaign advisors?
If Biden was caught riding his bicycle naked, I'd still take him over a xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, narcissistic, verbally abusive, draft dodger. Why is it some journalists feel the world would stop if they didn't share their opinions about every 20 minutes?
🤣 SURE, the guy that can’t use his words makes us all exude confidence in him as POTUS. BidenHasDementia
'Undisciplined'? He's not the one taking to every TV camera he can find to ramble on and on and on. He's not the one lying with every sentence that comes out of his mouth. He's not the one draining the Treasury and giving the $$ to his cronies. Biden's campaign is doing fine.
Russia paying bounties on our troops in Afghanistan, over 160, 000 deaths from Coronavirus and millions unemployed are the very reason Joe Biden will be the 46th President.
Can he just be responsive to BLM or does he have to riff on playing to the center? thinking the former.
Biden doesn’t have to overcome 1 dang thing😤trump is the alternative. period. BidenRice2020🗽
What President woes? POTUS is on top.
Fake news from a bot!
Not to mention the senility and dementia.
Baloney. We will re-elect Trump BlacksForTrump
He must overcome his history of an undisciplined mouth. And I’m voting for him.
Unfortunately if anyone can screw this up it’s Joe Biden
he should sideline his loud mouth progressive They are too eager to bulldoze US institution for their firebrand ideology of putting public spending on tabs with super big debt SPEND NOW N PAY LATER MENTALITY
Why was Ivanka Trump trademarking voting machines in 2018 while working in the White House How many were purchased how many were sold and where are they
He’s hiding in a basement!!! Ffs
Do you mean when he had to drop out of his presidential bid for plagiarism?
Trump is a traitor so let’s not act like he has to do much more than show up
Jesus Christ really, politico?
😂
What’s that you say about being undisciplined? You’re going to be shocked when you see what the other guy has said and done.
JFC, this is what we have to offer the country. There is something systematically wrong with the US government.
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Whoever is Biden's VP will become President if Biden wins.
Does he though?
Are you fucking kidding...undisciplined? Compared to who? Trump is an unmitigated disaster, but go off....
Not to mentions all the racist statements
Politico has slipped into the abyss.
He ain’t got a chance except by cheating!
Oh we’ve entered the “media is bored” portion of the election cycle. Good to know.
Overcoming Russian interference is another.
The statement Biden just put out on Trump’s idiotic and illegal Executive Orders was pretty damn disciplined. He stuck to the main points and didn’t take the bait to run around with his hair on fire about it.
Nice words Politico, but you couldn't find another picture that didn't look like Joe is trying to remember where he parked his car Who needs friends like Politico when you got enemies... jeeez
While you are diving trumps asshole, think about 2016.
He is a racist there is no way to spin that YouAintBlack
If you don’t want a racist candidate, don’t nominate a racist candidate
Trump just promised to defund Social Security if reelected. Cutting the payroll tax basically does just that! Not only are he and the GOP taking money away from our elderly, they're apparently A-OK with them getting sick and DYING during this pandemic!
Yes maybe he should get s bunch of white supremacists and campaign with them and not wear masks and spread covid-19 to all the children in the world and not care like Trump does.
History of can’t put a sentence together that makes sense.
Literally no one cares about this take. Read the room. Do better.
You should ashame to even suggest Joe is fit to run. The entire left is guilty of Elder Abuse.
Lolololololol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nuff said KAG 4MoreYears ArmchairActivist 👍❤️🇺🇸
Undisciplined? Where have you been for four years?
DeMs In DiSARrAY
He’s got NO FCKING CHANCE who are you trying to kid?
Trump is much smarter and better at saying word than Biden. That is why I will vote Trump2020
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