BIDEN: I knew a month before Election Day that Hillary would lose

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Star Member Omaha Steve (65,501 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141795767

BIDEN: I knew a month before Election Day that Hillary would lose key battleground states

 

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Last month, Biden said of Clinton's November defeat: "I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate." Biden did not seek the presidency in 2016, but speculation about his potential run lingered for months.

 

Star Member hrmjustin (70,485 posts)
1. Did he warn her at the time?

 

Star Member WinkyDink (47,885 posts)
57. Team HRC/Mook IGNORED BILL CLINTON, and you think they might have heeded ANYTHING Biden might have opined ON THE EXACT SAME ISSUE?!

Right.

And yes, once it was decided that, unlike usual political practice, the sitting Vice-President was basically told not to run so that we'd see history made, all bets were off.

Star Member pnwmom (83,143 posts)
2. He's full of himself. Hasn't changed much since the Anita Hill hearings. n/t

StevieM (6,067 posts)
4. Hillary campaigned furiously in Pennsylvania and her ads were everywhere.

As for Wisconsin and Michigan, her lead in those states led Donald Trump to pull down his ads and focus his efforts elsewhere.

Comey's October Surprise dramatically altered the state of the race. Had it not been for that illegitimate action HRC would have won the states that Biden says he knew she would lose.

delisen (1,044 posts)
7. Thepolitical world as Biden knew it ended with 2016 election cycle.

As things stand now any entity in the world with enough money and intent plus some insider cooperation can decide the US president and legislators.

We have arrived at the global village. It is tempting to want to keep seeing the world we knew but then we may as well join the Flat Earth Society.

bucolic_frolic (6,263 posts)
14. Election Eve in Philadelphia

you could see the somber mood of President Obama, the fear of Michelle Obama, in the
speeches they gave at Independence Hall. They knew.

I don't know what Joe Biden is doing at a conference hosted by Mitt Romney, but if left and
right patriots want to unite to oppose Trump and authoritarianism, we really have no choice.

Sen. Walter Sobchak (8,115 posts)
55. A lot of people knew

I know a lot of people who worked on the Clinton campaign and by January of last year a lot of them knew there was a problem, she just wasn't communicating where she needed too. By summer they were extremely concerned and by early October were resigned to the fact they were in serious trouble. Meanwhile Clinton and the Mandarins thought that they could win in Texas by reminding people that Trump was a lewd oaf, you know the very public persona that Trump himself spent thirty years honing.

 

sandensea (300 posts)
21. For once, I disagree with Joe Biden.

He should know by know that those battleground states - enough of them, anyway - were hacked, flipped, and stolen by Vlad's boys.

bettyellen (42,135 posts)
31. Divisive bullshit, the press still loves to get Dems to eat their own.

And some dudes are all too happy to comply.

I'm disgusted. What about some unity, dudes?

Star Member regnaD kciN (18,887 posts)
33. So, now Joe Biden has joined Bernie Sanders as a DU Unperson?

Star Member pnwmom (83,143 posts)
39. When he's bragging about what a great candidate he would have been compared to HRC, yes.

Star Member pnwmom (83,143 posts)
41. Voter suppression made a big difference. And Russian micro-targeting of voters from their stolen registration files also affected the election.

50 Shades Of Blue (1,284 posts)
50. Put a sock in it, Joe! You are NOT helping! And what in the **** are you doing at a Mitt Romney conference?!

Star Member hamsterjill (8,694 posts)
66. This kind of shit, even if it IS from Joe, is not productive. It's divisive and it needs to stop.

I have no doubts that if Hillary is still alive for the next election she'll run.

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member pnwmom (83,143 posts)
41. Voter suppression made a big difference. And Russian micro-targeting of voters from their stolen registration files also affected the election.

Russian micro targeting? WTF is that? did they use some kind of mind control to influence voters? 

This thread is a real circular firing squad, with lots of heads exploding!!

[BattleHymn]

As things stand now any entity in the world with enough money and intent plus some insider cooperation can decide the US president and legislators.

The Great Cheeto spent in the neighborhood of $600M.  Hilsquatch spent double that, at $1.1 BILLION. 

You got your ass kicked for half the money.  Deal with it.

[FlaGator]

I think the poster is referencing the Russians more that Trump.

[JakeStyle]

Big Sweaty Steve has become a regular disrupter at the DUmp, he likes to drop these I-told-ya-so anti-Meemaw OP's and then just disappear.

[SVPete]

It sure took a while for the Hillary Harpies to step up to her defense, sort of. Did the testimonies of Comey and the intel people cool there ardor? Or even reduce their numbers?

50 years of cozying up to the Enviros and destroying jobs bore fruit.

35 years of demonizing Christian believers bore fruit.

40 years of attacking families on multiple fronts bore fruit.

40 years of paying off and supporting blacktivist racists bore fruit.

Doubling down on the most corrupt, inept, arrogant, and morally bankrupt leader-families in the D Party bore fruit.

If Slow-Joe saw Hillary's defeat coming, then the Ds who did not were willfully blind.

[VelvetElvis]

Star Member pnwmom (83,143 posts)
2. He's full of himself. Hasn't changed much since the Anita Hill hearings. n/t

Credit where credit is due.
She kinda nailed that one.