https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hillary-clinton-not-biden-will-be-nominee-in-202...The Times of Israel
H. A. Goodman
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H. A. Goodman
Hillary Clinton NOT Biden will be Nominee in 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee in 2020, despite recent endorsements from Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Bernie Sanders, and other Democrats. The closer we get to the convention, the less unified Democrats will be regarding the prospect of Biden running against, or even debating, President Trump. Biden already loses to President Trump in Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other swing states according to the latest CNBC poll. Furthermore, Biden’s gaffes and continual lapses in memory, in addition to possible cognitive issues already have Democrats clamoring for an alternative. Biden’s success in the Democratic primary has more to do with a repudiation of Bernie Sanders and a revulsion for President Trump than anything positive about the former Vice President.
Wisconsin Democrats voted for someone who would veto Medicare for All, in a rainstorm during a pandemic, so that should tell you how the average Democrat views Bernie’s revolution in 2020. In addition, Bernie Sanders has more in common with President Trump (both opposed the TPP and NAFTA and both supported criminal justice reform, addressing the trade deficit with China and an end to foreign interventions) than Biden, whom AOC recently stated was less progressive than Hillary Clinton. In reality, whether it’s all a charade or simply the escapades of a modern-day Tammany Hall, Democrats will nominate a woman during their August convention. The Democratic Party’s convention, by the way, was rescheduled exactly on the centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification. Democrats will once again nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton and she’ll eventually battle President Trump for the presidency in 2020.
How Clinton ends up on the November ballot is a mystery, but millionaire donors aren’t going to invest in Biden; his campaign can only hit so many icebergs and his troubles are insurmountable. The notion that Michael Bloomberg would spend $1.2 billion in about four months to help elect Joe Biden is not only absurd, but goes against the recent history of the Democratic Party. Ultimately, Democrats would rather lose another close election with Clinton, than ruin the party for a generation by losing miserably with Biden.
Does this sound strange? It shouldn’t since Biden only has a little over $26 million in cash thus far in his campaign for the White House. Clinton at this point in 2016 had raised over $180 million and was on her way to outspending Trump by a margin of 2:1. Clinton won the popular vote by massively outspending Trump $1.2 billion to $600 million and still lost the electoral college, so Democrats aren’t going to roll the dice with a man who stated he’s running for Senate in 2020. Also, President Trump is breaking fundraising records with over $240 million recently and the average Trump supporter is very enthusiastic to vote again for the president. Biden’s voters aren’t at all enthusiastic about him and aren’t truly voting for the former Vice President; they’re voting against Trump.
With Clinton, Democrats have around 65 million people who either want the first female president, an end to the Trump presidency, another Clinton in the White House, or a candidate with Madam Secretary’s star power among Hollywood celebrities and the D.C. establishment. Ultimately, Clinton’s more passionate base of support among the “I’m With Her” crowd would lead to an overwhelming advantage over Biden in fundraising and voter turnout. Democrats simply can’t win swing states with Biden’s fundraising numbers, his constant gaffes, a sexual assault allegation combined with a criminal complaint, and questions about Burisma.
Some might ask why Democrats would return to a person who already lost to Trump, even if she could outspend Biden. There about 77,000 thousand reasons; all of which pertain to the number of voters in key swing states that swung the election. Pledged delegates are not legally bound to vote for Biden, even if he wins the nomination outright before the convention, and can even vote for Clinton during the first round, before super delegates vote in the second round of the Milwaukee convention. As stated by FiveThirtyEight, “Democratic delegates are pledged to certain candidates based on the results… But they are not actually legally bound to vote for them, even on the first ballot.” Therefore, anything is possible in a political party where the fine print of any agreement or document allows for all types of bizarre outcomes, even Debbie Wasserman Schultz being forced to resign in 2016 for cheating Bernie Sanders.