I saw part of Biden’s speech/press conference today until it blinked out.
I think he’s doing great in this format.
The absence of a crowd makes the presentation less like a partisan campaign rally and more like he’s already president, which is exactly how I think he should act.
The campaign slogan Build Back Better made me wince because it’s a tongue twister, but he seems to have mastered it. Whatever, they’re stuck with it now.
I’ve just watched that on CSPAN and agree with you. I thought it was a fantastic performance and I especially liked that passage where he pointed out and told the backstory of a young father and IT system technician in the audience as an example of individual drive in adversity matched with a pathway of opportunity. 28 minutes in.
Trump won Ohio by more than 8% but has rarely broken 50% in polls here since he took office. Bill Clinton took Ohio twice with pluralities and Obama twice with outright majorities; ol’ Joe could do so too, but it won’t be easy. Trump knows he has to win and already has TV ads up here. No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio.
So right now, state polls are showing Biden likely to win 278 of the electoral votes. You need 270 to win. Trump is showing only 169 votes. Of the 91 Toss-Up, it includes Az, NC, Fl which are all likely to go Biden and Ohio might go to Biden, it is drifting towards him lately.
It is possible Biden takes 351 to 185, that would be a nice repudiation of Trump and his policies and his Trumpness.
Nice (the Joe Biden talk in Delaware in C-SPAN). Thanks for the heads-up.
I hope MY senile period (in a couple decades) is half as on-the-ball as that. (I jest, of course. He’s obviously far from senile, as demonstrated in that video).
The Lincoln Project and another anti-Trump Republican PAC have agreed to specifically target Ohio and blitz it with their magic. One of the LP founders (forget which one, Rick Wilson, I think) said that if they can deny Trump Ohio, he has no path to a win.
I don’t think it’s enough for Biden to win; the margin of victory has to be convincing. The Republicans must lose not just electoral college but Biden needs to win a healthy number of states and I’d prefer it if he could sweep swing states, taking the ones Obama won in 2008.
I’m beginning to worry, too, if Biden’s campaign is doing enough to actually push voters out of their houses.
FL cannot be counted on by Democrats. A very unreliable electorate. Ohio is leaning hard to Red state status. AZ and NC are different stories and should be a focus of the Ds along with the Rust Belt states of PA, MI and WI. Any other swing states are pure gravy.
ETA: My scenario of states HRC won in 2016 + PA, MI, WI, AZ & NC gives the election to Biden 304 - Trump 234. A 70 point diff. I can live with that.
True, Fla is very unstable. But it’s a fact that FL and even TX are possibly going Blue- which means the GOP and trump have to spend $$ and time there.
FL and TX are leaning Blue at the moment, yes. And yes, the GOP will have to spend more $$$ in both than they anticipated. However, I don’t doubt the GOP will lie and disenfranchise like maniacs to stop either of them from flipping.
Of course if FL goes Blue, election night will be over for DJT. If TX goes for Biden we will have a Blue tidal wave the likes of which hasn’t been seen in a while. I just don’t anticipate it playing out this way.
Agree with your analysis of both FL and OH, both of which have been trending redder and redder in recent years. On the flip side, OH may be starting to lose its status as a bellwether state, which in fact might be PA or MI this time.
Kamela Harris is the official VP pick for the Democrats. She’s smart, 55 years old, a woman of color. Her Senate seat won’t go Republican.
I think it is a solid choice and will defuse some of the “Democratics will take your police protection away from the suburbs fear mongering” away.
I like Kamela, she was roughly 4th on my list for the Dem Presidential Nomination and I actually like her better than Warren but I like Warren being a progressive.
The entire GOP effort seems focused on ‘don’t elect the Scary Leftists!’—and they are getting zero help for that from the candidacies of long-time, proven moderates Biden and Harris. Zero help.