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Steve Peoples and Alexandra Jaffe at the Associated Press have been looking at how most times around, the vice presidential nominee pick doesn’t make a huge different to an election or swing an outcome. This time, though, they posit that the stakes are much higher for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
They quote Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee in 2016, who said Biden’s decision “may be the most closely held and personally driven vice presidential pick ever. Nobody knows this job better than Joe Biden and nobody did the job better than Biden, so he’s gonna really control this one on his own.”
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Benjamin Dixon has written for us this morning on what seems to be an recurring motif of the Joe Biden campaign – the Democratic party candidate making comments that alienate the Black community whose votes he needs to oust Donald Trump from the White House.
Black Americans who are not dutiful members of the political establishment – whose job it is to explain away every bumbling and insulting thing the Democratic party’s forced pick spits up – are rightly upset at the fact that Joe’s own words are making Trump’s re-election more likely.
If anyone on team Joe is under the impression that 2020 is a slam dunk, one only needs to look at the recent polling to understand this isn’t true. White America has a commitment to Trump that is unmoved by the fact that 160,000+ Americans have died as a result of his absurd and criminally pathetic response to Covid-19.
Related: Joe Biden needs Black voters. So why does he keep insulting us? | Benjamin Dixon
Continue reading…New data shows huge uptick in infections of childrenUS passes 5m Covid-19 cases as Joe Biden says pandemic ‘breaks heart’Trump’s coronavirus relief orders described as ‘laughable’ by Andrew CuomoAlex Azar praises Taiwan’s Covid-19 response during rare visitSign up to our First Thing newsletter 1.19pm BSTSteve Peoples and Alexandra Jaffe at the Associated Press have been looking at how most times around, the vice presidential nominee pick doesn’t make a huge different to an election or swing an outcome. This time, though, they posit that the stakes are much higher for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.They quote Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who served as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee in 2016, who said Biden’s decision “may be the most closely held and personally driven vice presidential pick ever. Nobody knows this job better than Joe Biden and nobody did the job better than Biden, so he’s gonna really control this one on his own.” 12.49pm BSTBenjamin Dixon has written for us this morning on what seems to be an recurring motif of the Joe Biden campaign – the Democratic party candidate making comments that alienate the Black community whose votes he needs to oust Donald Trump from the White House.Black Americans who are not dutiful members of the political establishment – whose job it is to explain away every bumbling and insulting thing the Democratic party’s forced pick spits up – are rightly upset at the fact that Joe’s own words are making Trump’s re-election more likely.If anyone on team Joe is under the impression that 2020 is a slam dunk, one only needs to look at the recent polling to understand this isn’t true. White America has a commitment to Trump that is unmoved by the fact that 160,000+ Americans have died as a result of his absurd and criminally pathetic response to Covid-19. Related: Joe Biden needs Black voters. So why does he keep insulting us? | Benjamin Dixon Continue reading…