Even liberal pundits say the democrats don’t have a deep bench of Trump challengers in 2020. That’s true if they are trying to field competitive competent candidates, but if they want to make an insanity squad, they have an All-Star team. “Crazy” Joe Biden, hypocrite Kamala Harris, and socialist kook Bernie Sanders are all expected to decide over the holidays if they will run in 2020. Bernie says he’s “going big,” Kamala expects a knife fight, and Joe may be planning to end the world so this should be fun.
According to The AP, Independent Vermont Bernie Sanders had a pow-wow to discuss a possible 2020 run.
A final decision has not been made, but those closest to the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist suggest that neither age nor interest from a glut of progressive presidential prospects would dissuade him from undertaking a second shot at the presidency. And as Sanders’ brain trust gathered for a retreat in Vermont over the weekend, some spoke openly about a 2020 White House bid as if it was almost a foregone conclusion.
Bernie Sanders’ Brain Trust? That sounds like the name of a horrible alt-rock band. Actually, wasn’t that the name of the group Beto O’Rourke played bass for?
“This time, he starts off as a front-runner, or one of the front-runners,” Sanders’ 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver Weaver said. “It’ll be a much bigger campaign if he runs again, in terms of the size of the operation.”
The fact that an Independent socialist is considered the Democratic Party’s frontrunner bodes well for President Trump’s reelection bid. It’s unclear if Sanders would declare himself a democrat like he did briefly in 2016, but if he runs as an Independent that will split the liberal vote and guarantee 4 more years of Trump.
NBC reports that first term California Senator Kamala Harris is also seriously considering a 2020 run.
“It’s a very serious decision. Over the holiday, I will make that decision with my family,” said Harris.
A Kamala Harris candidacy is not something anyone asked for or has the slightest interest in, but her reservations over running seem to be that that she thinks she might get stabbed.
“Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly. When you break things, it is painful. And you get cut. And you bleed,” Harris said.
Sorry this quote can’t be put into any kind of context that would help it make sense, but that’s what she said and that’s how NBC reported it. Apparently Harris thinks there’s going to be some broken bones and knife wounds. She won’t make a very good candidate or president, but she could definitely take Sanders or Biden in a street fight. The DNC took a lot of flak for their rigged “super delegate” system in 2016, so maybe they are going to run the 2020 primaries like a no-holds-barred cage match in which case Harris, not Sanders, would be the frontrunner.
The Missoula Current reports that former VP Joe Biden is ready for Harris’ street brawl or at least he thinks he is.
“When you get knocked down, just get up,” said Biden.
As part of his “American Promise Tour” Biden said he will decide shortly if he will run another losing presidential bid.
“I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president. The issues that we face as a country today are the issues that I’ve worked on my whole life – the plight of the middle class and foreign policy. But my family and I need to decide as a unit whether we’re ready – we do everything as a family,” Biden said.
If Joe Biden is the most qualified person in the country to be president, we must be a nation of imbeciles. Luckily, everything Biden says is either a lie or a delusion so we’re fine.
Biden didn’t address his advanced age or 0-3 record in running for president, but he did touch on the fact that he says the most insane things ever.
“I may be a gaffe machine, but my god, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth. No one doubts what I say, the problem is I sometimes say all that I mean,” said Biden.
And then he said something insane:
“We can’t have four more years,” said Biden.
Crazy Joe didn’t say “we can’t have four more years of Trump” just that we can’t have four more years period, which sounds very final. Who knows what goes on inside Biden’s head, but this comes across like he’s planning on ending the world and apparently very soon.
Democrats may not have a deep bench to challenge President Trump in 2020, but they certainly have an entertaining collection of kooks and weirdos, which will make the next election cycle the funniest in American history. If these three choose not to run, the dems always have drunk-driving hipster doofus Beto O’Rourke to fall back on.
