Well, he’s won more elections than I have, but IDK
I’m feeling better than I was at the start of the year, but it’s certainly still no sure thing. A little confidence is a good thing, as long as it doesn’t rot into complacency.
I have a feeling that since he’s now on the campaign trail, he’s rubbing elbows with more voters, doing the kissing babies and shaking hands kind of stuff. Getting out there more is helping him feel more in touch with more of the American people, instead of being more isolated and busy with presidential work.
Hey, don’t cut yourself short.
Biden’s first presidential primary was 1988, it took 32 years before he was able to win one.
Just never give up and have faith society will keep getting shittier till your flaws are no longer deal breakers
The one he had to back out of because of plagiarism and lies.
They downvote you because of truth? Five minute google for anyone in doubt here are some takes: https://time.com/5636715/biden-1988-presidential-campaign/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-plagiarism/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/politics/biden-1988-presidential-campaign.html
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/07/ad-watch-fact-checking-video-about-bidens-academic/
Like I feel like I am taking crazy pills when I see such downvote ratio on something so verifiably factual and honest.
ETA I’m being downvoted now and getting complaints about sources despite there being 4 articles and advising a simple google, like just jump to snopes if you refuse to read and just go see the checkmark
trump has plagiarized a speech, though technically it was a family member of his, and it was also obamas speech.
I think basically every prominent politician has plagiarized shit at one point.
Maaan that article i just couldnt read all the way through, its sooo bad. And it in no way confirmed or agreed with anything up to the point i read.
The amount of effort they put into shielding Biden from criticism puts them on par with the MAGA crowd.
In some posts I’ve quoted Biden, but attributed trump and nothing but up votes. I quote Biden and attribute Biden and nothing but down votes
They were very vocal when Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama, but crickets and down votes when it’s pointed out Biden plagiarized JFK
Probably because nationally the Democrats have been beating polls by 9+ points since Roe V. Wade was overturned.
Nationally doesn’t mean shit if they can’t get 270 electoral votes.
If we can just get through this election then we can start worrying about the next election.
If Biden wins, we’ll never have to worry about either trump or Biden running again.
And if Trump wins, we’ll never have to worry about anyone ever running again.
But that’ll be the least of our problemsAre you sure we won’t have to worry about Trump running again? Because I am absolutely not.
If we’re lucky, heart disease will take care of the issue by then.
Also drywall can only sustain so much ketchup
I think the implication is he’ll be in prison. Setting aside whether that’s a safe bet or not, I can totally see an 80-something trump making campaign ads from a prison cell. He won’t really have anything better to do at that point.
Edit: typo
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Trump will never stop running again. Whether he wins or notThe problems and divisions that those two men represent aren’t going to go away when they do.
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Yeah, 2028 will see a new fascist running against an even more rightward corporate neoliberal.
Does anybody know which election wasn’t “the most important election in history”?
Obama 2012. Sure Romney would’ve sucked ass but he probably would’ve just fumbled the whole thing comically instead of actively undoing democracy.
Nah, that one also was the most important one:
Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct. Rarely before in modern times has the divide between the two parties been as stark.
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/the-most-important-presidential-election-ever-074188
Good thing Hillary beat Trump in 2016 or Democracy would have already ended.
Confidence here probably isn’t a great thing
As long as it isn’t tied to complacency, it’s fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Over the past several weeks, President Joe Biden has privately expressed confidence that he’s going to win the November election, according to three people familiar with his comments, in a shift from the frustration with the status of his campaign that he was venting to aides just a couple months ago.
The turnabout in Biden’s mood has been propelled in part by recent polling that shows him gaining ground against former President Donald Trump, these people said.
Indeed, complaints about Americans not giving him credit he believes he deserves for what he sees as his accomplishments, including an economy trending in a positive direction and bipartisan infrastructure legislation, have been a recurrence for much of Biden’s time in the White House.
Additionally, opposition to Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which Biden has supported, continues to grow across the country, and months of efforts to reach a cease-fire deal have so far failed.
Protests against the war have escalated on college campuses, with students building encampments and facing off with law enforcement, at a time when Biden is struggling with young voters.
In addition to an average of two presidential visits to battleground states a week, part of the current phase of that plan has included spending money to beef up the Biden campaign.
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Ah yes, there’s the Democratic party’s bullshit hubris in come to know and loath.
Hillary lost Michigan, a key states due to our absolutely bullshit electoral college, by 10k votes while there were 100k votes that voted uncommitted in the recent primary.
Awfully stupid in my opinion to think you have things in the bag when you damn well know your voters aren’t cultural deologues like Republicans.
How is it “in private” if youre re-posting that info here?
It means its info that the public needs to be served with.Did Netanyahu tell him the more weapons he sends the more votes he gets?
Hillary was super confident…
It’s why she lost the 2016 election, she had all the confidence in the world, but that alone doesn’t make someone a good candidate
Someone that acts confident when they shouldn’t, is colloquially known as a “conman”. Because what they’re selling isn’t worth buying, you’re just buying it off their confidence in themselves, which is very rarely based on reality.
Calling Biden a conman in relation to Trump is actually hilarious. While he’s absolutely not the candidate I want, he’s still better than Trump by all metrics
They’re both con men, that’s basically the job. The president is basically a glorified cheerleader with nukes.
Meh, at least the Cheeto tells the truth as far as who he wants to kill, Biden lies out one side of his mouth, while sending bombs with the other
while sending bombs with the other
You’re going to be absolutely shocked when you find out which branch of government controls the spending in the USA.
You’re going to be absolutely shocked who has the final say in military matters in the USA
Biden has beat Trump once already, Hilary never did. Maybe he’s confident for a reason.
“He shouldn’t be confident because a different candidate was confident once and they lost, that means confidence is bad and meaningless”
I’m sure trump is confident too, how does that make you feel? Should he be?
Someone that acts confident when they shouldn’t, is colloquially known as a “conman”.
No, that’s incorrect.
A “con man” aka Confidence Trickster is a grifter who gains your confidence in order to scam you.
Having false confidence in itself does not mean someone is necessarily a swindler. It could just be that they are delusional or misinformed.
They’re not selling a legitimate product service, the only thing rubes are being sold on, is the confidence of the salesperson.
Biden can be as confident as he wants to be, and some voters may assume that confidence means he’s competent.
But Hillary was extremely confident she’d win 2016. She shouldn’t have been.
And that over confidence directly led to her not trying as hard as she could, and voters falsely believing she had it wrapped up and they didn’t need to “hold their nose”.
Biden and voters need to be realistic about his chances to beat trump, or it will lower his chances to beat trump.
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Or his internal polls are a lot better than those you read.
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Utterly unelectable is a weird way of describing someone who got 3M more votes than the other guy.
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She lost because the electoral college is broken. That’s not the same as being “utterly unelectable”.
Wasn’t her whole schtick that she knows politics better than anyone? She really should have seen that coming and campaigned in swing states
I’m not trying to argue that she ran a great campaign.
It was Russia that tipped the scale, including by convincing traditionally democratic voters in key states to vote third party or not at all.
30 years of right-wing propaganda didn’t help either.
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She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history. You’ve fallen victim to a smear campaign, but are blissfully unaware of it.
Biden has already been elected.
