Red Mosquito

Standard timeline. He's vetting. He's talking to prospects. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a shit about any of the narratives out there. He's not going to pick someone because they are some group of voters or another. He's going to pick the person he gets along with and can work with for four years.

durdencommatyler wrote:He's going to pick the person he gets alone with

Can't tell if typo

Simple Torture wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:He's going to pick the person he gets alone with

Can't tell if typo

Oh boy...

Yeah, I'll fix that.

tragabigzanda wrote:What’s your rationale? His naming a POC running mate would be a slam dunk right now, so I’m just wondering if there’s isn’t a reason for his not doing that

Idk, could be criticized as pandering. Trump's numbers are cratering right now anyway so why waste a potential VP-announcement bump when he doesn't need it/it gets lost in the noise anyway? The less Biden is in the news, the better. I don't see any reason he'd want to start the general election cycle any earlier than he has to. Announcing a POC running mate early and during BLM protests would kinda reek of desperation, wouldn't it?

Rob wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

McParadigm wrote:If you’re the Trump team, and for nearly 4 months you’ve watched your numbers cratering, and you’ve been telling yourself that the rallies will bring back the energy and the pomp and the sense of flexed might...what do you do now? The worst thing that could happen would be for you to plan more rallies, and have them turn out like this one.

They’ve been saying “wait until we get the rallies going” for months. Now they must be scared to schedule more.

Hmmm, maybe we should have some debates.

Given Joe's mental issues, this strategy might work.

Yea that'll definitely work, until 5 minutes in when Trump explains to us all that we'd be corona-free if we stopped testing people for it (followed by 2 more hours of nonsense).

This is what happened with the Bernie debate; everyone tried to push this narrative that Biden was so far gone he's pretty much incapable of speaking, that he has such a low bar all he really needs to do is come out and put a coherent sentence together.

Didn't he already say he'd announce around August 1?

I think 4/5 has it right. Let Trump self destruct a little more, no point in trying to make a splash right now.

The timetable is consistent with the last decade plus (I looked back to 1988 and I couldn't find a running mate announcement from either major party earlier than July 6th), at least. It's fun for us and the media to speculate on narratives but I just don't think they're a big factor in Biden's decision. The optics/storylines aren't as important as who he best believes he can work with. And the vetting process takes a long time. I'm sure he feels pretty fucking good that the primary ended (for all intents and purposes) as quickly as it did.

PSA has talked about this a lot over the past few weeks. I'm really looking forward to Pfiefer's spin-off, mini-series about this topic. I think it'll enlighten the general public on how this process actually works, since it's something that most of us are largely ignorant about.

And maybe the dems are also trying to figure out who would be best to run in '24.

What are the thoughts on susan rice?

Strat wrote:What are the thoughts on susan rice?

Benghazi?

We should be able to change our vote in the poll.

I no longer think that Trump will be re-elected and I would be surprised if 4 of the other 6 votes do either.

Oh I'm sure they had stern words. They'll suck dear leaders cock if it is presented to them.

Yeah really tired of the 'Collins might go against Trump' narrative. That bitch is balls-deep in this Administration.

96583UP wrote:Yeah really tired of the 'Collins might go against Trump' narrative. That bitch is balls-deep in this Administration.

Lots of Bye Bye Susan stickers round these parts. Hope it happens.

tragabigzanda wrote:Are you in ME? What part?

Can you not see anything below my name and picture?