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FORMER WHITE HOUSE hopeful Elizabeth Warren has endorsed her onetime rival Joe Biden, becoming the final major Democratic candidate to publicly support his presidential bid.
The formal backing from Warren, a progressive senator from Massachusetts, comes two days after ex-candidate Bernie Sanders announced his backing for Biden, and 24 hours after Barack Obama formally endorsed his two-term vice president.
“We can’t afford to let Donald Trump continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of every American,” Warren said in a video message, referring to the Republican incumbent.
“And that’s why I’m proud to endorse Joe Biden as president of the United States.”
Warren’s pledge of support is the latest boost for the centrist stalwart Biden, who has been the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee since his lone remaining rival Sanders quit the race last week.
Warren - who built her campaign around a promise to end a corrupt” Washington system that she said rewarded the wealthy and fueled economic inequality – dropped out in early March.
Biden has surged since he righted his listing campaign ship by winning the South Carolina primary on 29 February and most of the subsequent contests.
Warren has hammered Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, warning that his administration lacks a comprehensive plan to end the crisis that has so far killed 26,000 people in the United States.
“In this moment of crisis, it is more important than ever that the next president restores Americans’ faith in good effective government,” she said.
Warren framed Biden as a politician of grace and grit who has spent nearly his entire life in public service and has the experience and dedication to “rebuild and transform” the nation.
The 70-year-old spoke of seeing Biden’s capabilities up close when he was vice president and she was helping the White House establish a financial watchdog agency.
“He knows that a government run with integrity, competence and heart will save lives and save livelihoods,” she said.
Biden, 77, now has the endorsement of all former major Democratic candidates, including Senator Kamala Harris, who has been discussed as a potential vice presidential pick.
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They have assured Trump 2020 :-
@Fergal Pigat: I don’t think so. Joe is the lesser of two evils and Trump isn’t gaining any voters with how he’s dealing with the virus
@Forest Hump: Believe it or not he actually is
@Forest Hump: I agree, a steaming turd would be better than an Orange Liar with an ego bigger than the solar system.
@Fergal Pigat: This is how you know none of them are worthy as an opponent. It really does make a case for it all being a swamp prior to Trump’s entry.
@Forest Hump: His party are cocooning him, because the wrong questions are being asked. Look into Pelosi, too. Some of these ”Trumpers” aren’t so crazy, but you’ve got to be able to look past Dem v Rep hate — on both sides.
@Anthony John Cotter: What a lovely, intelligent comment. You’ll be one for not seeing stereotypes as accurate, right?
@Forest Hump: you’re so very wrong. He will win by a total landslide. Joe Biden is the worst possible candidate for the democratic party. It baffles me how they think he can come close to beating Trump. The man can barely speak and will for sure make a fool of himself in a presidential debate against trump.
@Clarissa: by stating that Trump will win in a ‘landslide’ makes you the person who hasn’t a clue.But don’t worry about that as you are not alone.
@Clarissa: thanks for pointing out how very wrong I will be in an unknown future. I don’t think Trump will recover from this. You should listen to me, I know the future and I’m a stable genius.
a woman with a daughter and 3 grandchildren just endorsed a man who sniffs children
@KEN L: innocent till proven guilty the Democrats will say unless its Donald Trump they become judge,jury and executioner then
@Patrick Paul:
- the pedo euphemisms in John Podesta E mails
- Laura Silsby arrest and current position
- James Alefantis instagram photos (deleted but screen grabbed)
just three of Hillary’s friends
@KEN L: Jeffery Epstein was another friend of the clintons donated a lot of money towards Hillary presidential campaign
@Patrick Paul:
Anthony Weiners laptop.
Haiti, etc etc
@KEN L: Yet he’s still better than an opponent who molests them
@KEN L: No matter how much people deny this, she misrepresented herself as Cherokee in more than one place over the last 50 years and admitted to using it to network. Now, the majority who would debate this are all hung up on the only Trump article allowing comments, so I should probably not have to come back here or be called what they consider to be insulting names: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-controversy-over-elizabeth-warrens-claimed-native-american-heritage/2012/09/27/d0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html
@Patrick Paul: Would still be chequebooking the DNC and Hill and Bill’s favourite charity, if he was still with us.
In 2018 Warren told Glamour that she was “here with people of conscience who believe that when a woman comes forward that she has a right to be listened to, and there needs to be a full investigation.”
“The fact that Republicans want to go forward treating this woman and other women who have come forward as if their claims don’t matter is an insult to every single woman in this country,” she said. “It is fundamentally wrong.”
How times change.
@Gordon Comstock: #believealldemocrats
@Gordon Comstock:
“Anyone found to be complicit in the cover up of sexual abuse must be arrested and made to face the full rigours of the law”
- Mary Lou McDonald
Nov 28, 2009
@KEN L: Jaysus, you’re getting desperate when you have to go back 11yrs to find a quote that would allow you to slide an anti-SF comment into an article relating to US politics.
It’s interesting how a man who has lost the ability to speak coherently is the democratic candidate! If the dems had not been so preoccupied with hoaxes the last few years, they may have unearthed a better candidate. If he gets elected, it’ll be good news for the Deep State (the unelected bureaucrats in the intelligence community, NSC Justice Department that wield so much influence), big business and the lobby groups as theyll be running the show again. Itll be a disaster for the ordinary US citizen and the world though!
@JackSimpson: Every single word you said there could be applied to Trump
@JackSimpson: it’s a disaster right now for Americans with depression era unemployment levels. 26,000 dead from a virus that Trump said would miraculously disappear in April, telling everybody he was doing a great job because 15 cases would soon be down close to zero. Obviously didn’t do as great a job as he thought he would.
Nothing coherent in having temper tantrums at his press briefings because he doesn’t have the aptitude or leadership to handle a crisis.
Any other President would have got a huge bounce in the polls from a crisis like this, GW Bush was at 90% after 9/11.
@Diaspora’d:
Do you copy and paste all of your comments from previous anti Trump articles etc?
@Raven: No, just the benefit of actually living in America and knowing first hand what’s happening, whereas you seem to be miles away crawling from under your stone occasionally to retweet right wing white supremacist BS from the darkest corners of the internet.
@Diaspora’d: 1) “it’s a disaster right now for Americans with depression era unemployment levels.” – The reason why the US is headed for recession/depression is because it is shut down due one of the worst health crisis in decades. Yesterday, you were complaining that DT was not doing enough to combat the crisis (e.g. shutting down the country sooner, in February). Today, you are complaining about the economic effects that are occuring due to the shut down of the country that DT has helped to implement. You can’t have it both ways. To me this is obvious TDS. You hate DT no matter what he does!
2) “15 cases would soon be down close to zero” – I think it is safe to say that most leaders, organisations, health officials made errors here, e.g. the WHO, European leaders inc here in Ireland, the WHO, Fauci (I documented around 5 things yesterday that he said e.g. in March he said that there is no issue for healthy people to go on cruise ships), Cuomo, etc.
3) If I remember correctly, yesterday you wrote that DT was grossly negligent. If he was, all other world leaders were too.
4) “Nothing coherent in having temper tantrums at his press briefings” – Very difficult when you have fake journalists asking stupid questions + DT has had to put up with this for 4 years + these “journalists” have helped propagate past hoaxes, e.g. Russiagate.
JackSimpson: (2) and (3) America is currently top of the table with the number of deaths caused by COVID. Did any other major leader at the end of February claim they were going to very soon reduce the number of cases they had down close to zero….way off the mark and it sounded preposterous to most that heard him say it at the time.
South Korea and the US reported their first cases of COVID-19 on the SAME DAY. Notice the difference now ?
@Diaspora’d: That would be a yes to Raven’s question, then?
@Diaspora’d: Hmm. Something just isn’t ringing true to all the outrage. If he’s doing so poorly over there and you are Irish living in the US, why are you having to come here to find kindred spirits? Are you one of our 75K living illegally in the US?
@Diaspora’d: “America is currently top of the table with the number of deaths caused by COVID.” – I’ve a few comments on this:
1) It’s a pity we can’t rely on China’s numbers. I suspect they are top of the table.
2) The US is one of the most populous countries in the world – nearing 330 million. Also, the US is the epicentre of the globalised world. It probably has more flights to/from China (+ probably many other countries too) than any other country. It was also going to be hit by this crisis.
3) The US has done worse than some countries but better than others, mainly European countries (many of which are in the EU) – As of today, the US has 86 deaths per 1 million ppl. Spain has 397, Belgium has 383, Italy has 358, France has 263, the UK has 190, the Neterlands has 183, Switzerland has 143, Sweden has 119, Luxembourg has 110 and IRELAND has 90. I don’t hear many complaining about the leaders of these countries or the EU on these forums surprisingly, even though the situations are worse. Also, Italy had it’s 1st confirmed case after the US!
4) Between a half and a third of all US total cases and deaths are concentrated in a tiny part of the country, NY state. It doesn’t help having one of the densest places on earth in the state, i.e. Manhattan. Exclude NY and NJ and that takes away nearly half of the US total cases and deaths.
5) The US did not have it’s first confirmed CV death until 29th February. Most people forget this.
@Hana Barbera: it’s probably not your strong point but try “reading” the first word in my response to @Raven.
@JackSimpson: The US and South Korea reported their first cases of COVID19 on the very same day. Whereas South Korea took the threat seriously and acted immediately, Trump proceeded to downplay the threat and called the threat a hoax.
He said he was doing such a great job that there would be soon zero cases.
Most people don’t forget him saying that
@Hana Barbera: you should try minding your own business and play the ball instead of the person….but I’ll let you know I’m a US citizen who’ll be casting a vote against Trump in a swing state Trump only just won in 2016 by a narrow 0.77% margin
Biden is a terrible candidate, and I don’t like the ever growing narrative that a Biden presidency is something people should hope for or be hopeful about, but he’s a damn sight better than Trump by pretty much any measure.
@Terrence Edwards: Biden slightly better? Uncle Joe? I wonder if he wins, will he surround himself with a young female team…
@Ricky: i read that her was planning on picking a female VP running mate. Dont know how true that is but surely excluding the other 50% down to the fact that they have pen!ses is very iconic
@Terrence Edwards:
Hillary thought she could blackmail and threaten her way back into the white house , Trump is destroying the global sex ring and corona has only made life harder for Hillary’s friends like Alefantis, Silsby not to mention Podesta
I bet she runs on his ticket as VP. She f’d Bernie Sanders over for it.
@Aidan: bernie f’d himself.
Why can centre left politicians never retire when they should?.. Biden, Corbyn, Howlin over here.. Learn to give in graciously and let the younger generation give it a go.
@Valthebear: anybody that goes for the presidency nearly always has an ego
@Valthebear:
Corbyn centre left? I’d hate to think what you’d consider far left!
I wonder how many of the people in this comment section are actual citizens of the US and actually voted in the 2016 election? Just to clarify; Clinton won the popular vote by several million but lost on on a redundant electoral college system that skews the will of the people who actually voted for Clinton in the majority.
@Billy Kavanagh: the election will be won or lost in the swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio. Right now Trump’s support in those states is hemorrhaging and there is more people motivated to go out and vote ‘against’ Trump
In my own state in Wisconsin low turnout among Democrats particularly among the African American vote cost Hillary the state in 2016. Biden alway seems to have particularly high support among African Americans and in fact it was their vote in Carolina that won him the primary. The turnout in cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee will win or lose the election
@Billy Kavanagh: why is the electoral college redundant? In the American system it was designed to ensure larger states didn’t dominate smaller states. It suits the American federal political culture and system.
@Billy Kavanagh: It’s not only a republic it’s also a union and the electoral college is there to ensure that there is a balance to the large population centers for the flyover states.
Getting the most votes is a different ball game than going after a win in the current system.
If you don’t like the system you can always get enough people on board for a constitutional convention or get congress and enough states to support the system.
In the meantime the system is what it is.
@Billy Kavanagh: Oh, it’s not redundant. You either live in Dublin or Cork if you believe a few places should make the decisions for an entire country.
Is it my imagination or is Joe Biden turning ORANGE!!!
@Tom Clifford:
He probably sniffed the tan off Trump, who knows.
@Tom Clifford: Yes, he is. Find one ”orange” picture of him with Obama. Good luck. He’s becoming the stereotype the deranged Democrats at the top think will give them a chance to beat Trump.
He is 77 ffs. And Trump is not much younger. No wonder the world is…if they have a lower limit then why not an upper limit ? ..say 60 , to be able to run. These guys have no skin in the game/ future .
@Freddie Rincon:
That’s a very cynical perspective. They have children and grandchildren. And even if they didn’t, most people aren’t that self centred to not care how their actions affect the world.
@Freddie Rincon: They do have experience. I know that’s something that most laugh at, but all societies in history that have thrived have valued their ”elders” wisdom. Even young leaders have had older advisors. Seeing the pattern here? We live longer than when that law was probably decided, so it’s not hard to believe we stay more immature longer. You’ll see plenty of evidence by the know-it-all’s on any Trump article allowing comments.
Who ever is running this simulation clearly has a sick sense of humor over the past couple of weeks.
Senator Warren clearly hoping that Mr Biden will consider her over Senator Harris for the VP job.
Because at this point he needs a female VP candidate.
But all hope is not lost, it’s a long time to the convention and he might drop out and we end up with someone else.
We don’t know it’s a long time to the convention.
This just smells like a big, fat gimmick again. Their government really cannot comprehend how someone who isn’t ”one of them” got in. Barely any of his own party wanted him or have stood up to the bs Trump gets that any other president would have waltzed through. Can tell you right now the DNC would never have put Biden up for president, if Hillary had won. They are trying hard to morph him into the same person the batshite crazy Democrats among the more sane ones have said Trump is since before he won the presidency. He’s even getting more orange by the day. Can they not see the similarities? He’s an old white man who suddenly lost his mind (after being a career politician for decades) and can’t put a coherent sentence together, who has had a few half-hearted ”he touched me decades ago” in the last few months. It’s ridiculous! Their government IS a swamp. I wish them well, because based on our own Trump articles that allow comments, Russia is sending out more bots to win Trump that election again. (wink, wink)
@Hana Barbera: Do you even read what you write ?
“Can tell you right now the DNC would never have put Biden up if Hillary had won”
Of course they wouldn’t! If Hilary had won then she would be the incumbent President seeking 4 more years
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