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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      Joe Biden is a stronger candidate than many in the media initially wanted to acknowledge. The association with Obama is probably the single most valuable asset any candidate can have in a presidential primary race. He's not "Hillary 2.0" either. My item:https://spectator.us/joe-biden-2020-blow/ …

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      I should say, this isn't really an "item." It's a pretty long essay. I also think it's notable that whenever you say something "positive" about Biden on Twitter, even if you're just trying to be descriptive rather than normative, tweet-engagement goes way down. Telling!

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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      As I discuss in the essay, one key early Biden endorser who hasn't gotten much attention is Rep. Don McEachin (D-VA). McEachin is heading House candidate recruitment for Dems in 2020. So there will be subtle (or not so subtle) pressures for these candidates to endorse Biden

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    4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      Example of the impotence of Biden's opposition: today people on Twitter are raging about some policy he put forward. Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. It doesn't matter. The policies voters associate with him are those enacted under the 8-year Obama presidency. Accept that or lose

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    5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      Michael Tracey Retweeted Greg Sargent

      Another key advantage Biden has that Hillary lacked:https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1126940488756494337 …

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      Biden as veep four years ago (as opposed to running for a third straight term of his party) gives him the added advantage of conveying "restoration" for these types of voters. Dose of nostalgia thrown in.
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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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      And another advantage I forgot to mention in the piece: Biden recently shut down his personal "foundation," which was nowhere near the scope of the Clinton Foundation -- which the Clintons refused to shut down in 2016, leading to (accurate) accusations of nepotism and corruption

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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 10
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          It’s amazing to me how quick people are to scream that I’m somehow “shilling” for Biden, as if I suddenly decided that I love him and want him to be president. No, I’m just trying to describe the dynamics operative in a Democratic primary. Descriptive vs normative: look it up

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        1. David Gondek‏ @mutex7 May 10
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          I would like to see Biden's emails almost as much as Clinton's. They are both card carrying members of the same pay-to-play, influence peddling system. Hillary just comes across a little more brazen...but perhaps that's sexist.

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        1. Bernie Sanders 2020  👊‏ @FeelTheAloha May 10
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          If Joe is the nominee, leftward progress resets to zero and Trump wins again.

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        1. ZombieClimateRefugee 🌹 🌅‏ @arendtiana May 10
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          mmm....don't think things might change if we see climate and biodiversity protests in the next months? Everyone tied to Biden will have tied themselves to an endorsement of BAU, climate breakdown, mass extinction, corporate profit. Things change, sometimes quickly.

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        1. The King is a fink........ #ProtectJulian‏ @HiwattPete May 10
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          There is still the troubling fact that @JoeBiden unapologetically has @IsraeliPM's forearm to the hilt in his tookus.

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        1. dudleydoo‏ @Dudders8869 May 10
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          I recall seeing on the news in 2016 a primary vote in one of the Carolinas and a voter proudly told the reporter he voted for Hillary. When the reporter asked what he thought of Sanders, the voter had never heard of him. (This was well into the primary.) So yes, branding counts.

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        1. Dick Pic‏ @Kootice May 10
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          I have a feeling this Tweet will not age well. Creepy Joe has a lot of fingers in a lot of corrupt pies (Ukraine, China) and a lot of hands on young girls.

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        1. Jeffrey A Nolan‏ @JeffreyANolan1 May 10
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          You are right all the way down the line. But he'll never make it to the second ballot, and I'm not just blowing smoke. I live in one of the most conservative enclaves in Northern California, and everybody who wanted trump is switching to Sanders, I ask them every day. Trump...

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        1. Jeffrey A Nolan‏ @JeffreyANolan1 May 10
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          ...support around here is at about one in five or so and falling. It's a town of small businesses and right around tax time the tide turned.

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        1. Alex Scherer  ⏳‏ @lgbral May 10
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          Also, wasn’t he remote from the DNC shenanigans during the 2016 Democratic primary, a painful episode for many Sanders supporters?

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        1. James Echavarria‏ @ECHAVARRIAJAMES May 10
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          Biden won’t be able to fill 3 venues in 3 different states in one day. Trump will out work him. Biden better bring a stretcher.

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        2. Scholarly_Outcast‏ @scolarlyoutcast May 11
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          It’s interesting too that in a simply per capita basis he has been one of the poorest politicians: he got elected to the Senate very young after all.

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          However centrist he is, the actual fact that going by his pocketbook, he is closer to the working class, helps him. Even as an ex vp and elder statesmen he’s net worth is lower than Sanders’

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        2. Indict the MSM‏ @Missouriflies May 10
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          why do they all have foundations ? seems like all the rage these days

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          Charitible foundations are a popular way for the corrupt elite to virtue signal. Its the 21st century secular equivalent of purchasing Indulgences.

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        1. Just A Lisa  🌹 🐰‏ @tobosbunny May 10
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          Come on, you can do better at shilling for Biden than that. You do have to earn that money you know....neoliberal sellout....

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        1. Ringo‏ @enochssecret May 10
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          Man, your going hard for Sleepy Joe. To each his own.

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