I think one Biden supporter has figured out where these “secret power” documents are being stored:
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I’ll believe you when you do it.
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As usual, the DNC thinks it’s equally (and probably more) important to try to appeal to old conservatives to make their margin than it is to attract young progressive voters. But sure, feature speakers from the duopoly party that spent 40 years laying the groundwork for Il Douche before having regrets.
It’s embarrassing enough that the Dems are relying on the neoCons at The Lincoln Project to be more aggressive and effective than they are against the regime, but putting some of these same Republicans on their own convention dais is just pitiful and weak.
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I’m sure they’re going to do some kind of name reveal of Republicans who don’t support Trump. I don’t see what that does to motivate Democrats- which is what conventions are about. Maybe this works if the announce they’ve now switched parties - at least works better.
And there’s just no way that Julian Castro doesn’t deserve a speaker spot.
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Right?
And I heard that while AOC will receive a spot, she’ll speak for one minute. One freakin minute.
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That would definitely be effective, but I don’t see any of those cowards and opportunists doing it. They probably think they’re ethical and moral paragons enough for supporting Biden (which, in reality, is really opposing Biff --who they think stole what they’re entitled to even though they handed it to him).
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One freakin minute.
Talk about tokenism. In several senses.
Progressive activists were quick to call out the party for what they believe is a move to diminish the party’s more left-leaning base by giving former Ohio governor John Kasich, a Republican critic of President Donald Trump, a banner speaking role, and relegating Ocasio-Cortez to one minute.
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The Van Halen song just makes it more surreal…
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It’s wrong and short sighted. But I bet AOC packs more into her minute than Kasich does in half an hour.
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This is idle speculation, but If I was planning this event, Kasich would be a decoy.
As I see it, the Biden campaign has two things that it needs to do. 1. Get the base fired up and enthused to vote for you- That’s where you pull out all the stops to get every part of the Democratic party on board and excited- you get AOC and Bernie to hype up the best parts of the platform, you get all the other primary candidates with a base of support (Warren, Yang, Booker, Pete, Beto) a reason to come out and give their endorsement, and say why their supporters should vote for you.
But you also need to do 2- Give Republicans who hate trump cues to jump ship or stay at home. I’d be hoarding endorsements from Anti-Trump republicans, and dripping them out over the course of the campaign. Dropping a new one every so often to mess up any news that Trump runs with. And I’d start and end with the biggest surprises in the bag. Ideally Bush and /or Romney.
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Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can’t run a business
Former HPE chief exec and former Republican candidate for governor of California Meg Whitman has said she will support Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election.
Whitman appeared via video link at the first day of the virtual Democratic National Convention alongside three other prominent Republicans who said they will put country before party by supporting Biden.
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They really should, just for their own self-interest. The never-Trumpers think that if Biden wins they’ll get their party back. They won’t; the GOP is now wholly owned by the 40% Trump faithful, even if their leader loses. There are plenty of charismatic Qanonites to take his place.
Kasich et al’s best shot is to avoid complete political irrelevance by taking temporary shelter as a wing of the Democrats, help bury the old GOP, and hope to build enough support for splitting out a new party.
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Biden has 80% more donors than Trump, full stop.
Billionaires are proportionately less likely to donate to Biden than the rest of the general population.
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I think it is a strategic decision on their part, and it might even work, but the optics are awful. If they take fire from the left, it makes it harder for Trump to portray them as “extreme leftists” or “left wing fascists” (whatever the hell that oxymoronic word salad means.)
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If it’s a strategic decision, it’s bad strategy. Sanders is up on that stage, too, telling progressives to hold their noses, which will give Il Douche all the opportunities he needs to falsely portray the Dems as “extreme leftists”.
Really, though, putting Republicans on the rostrum strikes me as a particularly pathetic variation of the same old “triangulation” strategy that’s been going on since Bill Clinton’s campaign. It may have worked in 1992, but just presents as weak and wishy-washy now.
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Worse yet, it also presents as a promise of more of the same neoliberal centrism that got us Trump in the first place. Giving someone as inspiring to progressives as AOC one freakin minute to speak is more icing on that shitcake.
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