Unlike previous runs, Joe Biden is building out Iowa campaign team with 'robust' hiring,

Biden is ahead in Iowa and has a very good team and ground game.

"Joe Biden is building the kind of top-tier Iowa organization that eluded him in his previous runs for president. The former vice president benefits from a deep well of goodwill in the state. And at campaign stops, Biden frequently promises Iowa voters he plans to work hard to earn their support...His campaign is making good on that promise by locking in existing backers and bringing in new support through extensive spending on social media and outreach from a growing staff roster. By Aug. 1, the campaign says it will have about 75 total staff members in Iowa, 60 of whom will be field staff...

...In fact, Biden's operation is now one of the largest — if not the largest — so far in the state, surpassing many of his Democratic rivals. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign reported 65 staffers in Iowa as of July 1, while U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders had 48, former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke had 44 and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris had nearly 50. South... Mayor Pete Buttigiege, has been hiring quickly in Iowa as well. His team went from 39 staffers on July 1 to 57 on July 22...

...Biden's campaign showcased its organizing muscle on July 20 when campaign organizers led volunteers in events in 20 communities across Iowa, reaching about 25,000 Iowans through door knocking, phone calls and speaking with voters, the campaign said."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/07/29/joe-biden-iowa-caucuses-2020-organizing-hires-staff-social-media-facebook-fundraising-democratic/1766592001/

CNN...eviscerating Biden...I thought he did fine...but of course they want him gone.

On gun control, look to Biden

This was after Sandy Hook, sadly Biden failed to get the House to even take up this bill...but below is information that shows his long term committment for gun control...he had pushed for it early in the Obama administration. But of course the house was on fire, the economy had to be dealt with.

...'After Biden wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1988, Republicans quickly filibustered, blocking the bill for four years. He steered "the Biden crime bill" through the lengthy filibuster by negotiating with Republicans and making revisions. "Every single line in that bill was written with every single major Republican a part of it," Biden said in a September 12, 1994, interview on the Charlie Rose show.
The Clinton administration and then-Sen. Biden repeatedly refused to make concessions that would have jeopardized the substance of the act, even after debate over the amendment we know as the federal assault weapons ban imperiled the entire bill. Instead of backing down, Biden took on Republican Sens. Phil Gramm and Orrin Hatch and faced opponents attacking the bill as taxpayer-funded "dance lessons and midnight basketball for robbers and rapists."...

...When the bill foundered in the House, Biden persevered. It reached President Clinton's desk thanks to an unexpected, eleventh-hour push from a "Lost Battalion of Republicans" led by Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware. He'd been swayed during a series of meetings with the House Speaker and other House Republicans, at which Biden was the only Senator in attendance.
The resulting legislation banned the manufacture of 19 types of semi-automatic firearms and criminalized the possession of high-capacity magazines. The process taught a critical lesson: When otherwise "pro-gun'" lawmakers have to choose between a crime bill including a gun ban and inaction, it is more than possible for them to vote to protect Americans. Unfortunately, the assault weapons ban expired in 2004...... Since then, numerous lawmakers, including Joe Biden, have tried and failed to get the ban renewed..

...Biden will likely support a new ban on assault weapons and push for improvements. His 2007 Crime Control and Prevention Act would not only have renewed the ban but required background checks for all gun purchases, closing the "gun show loophole.'" Biden has also called on Congress to address the relationship of mental illness to violence in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings...'


https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/19/opinion/buckwalter-poza-biden/index.html

I have posted various map I encourage you to make your own and post them...https://www.270towin.com

This post has been cleaned up (map code) and updated.

This map shows what happens when we lose MI, WI and PA...what we have to overcome in terms of numbers...obviously we lose if this is the map. This is how Trump will try to win. My conclusion (yours may be different ) is that we barely lost in 16 in the MI, WI and PA and with the proper candidate, we can beat Trump in those states and out he goes. Biden was born in PA and has a connectin with those states. Thus I believe he has the best chance. He also has a shot in Florida which is huge. If we are not careful and run a disasterous candidate who has adopted issues that will not work in a general, we could lose states like Virginia too. We need a big tent approach. My final map is a Senate map demonstrating our difficulties in regaining a senate majority.

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This map shows what happens if we take three states...MI WI and PA. This is rebuilding the the blue wall. And we barely lost...last time. WE WIN!!!!!!!!!! Please consider that we have no realistic path...one that has acutally happened in the last few decades without rebuilding the blue wall. A candidate like Biden with ties to the region can do this...the others I simply don't think they can or will.




This map shows us taking three different states ...Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. I don't see Texas as flipping but I will show a map a bit later that addresses Texas. We do win in this scenario but how likely would it be that we win these states? It has been decades since we won Arizona or Georgia...as for Carolina we won in 08 barely. I also submit a progressive candidate who can appeal to moderates would have a better chance with this strategy. It is very risky as it is likely we will win none of those states.

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Now here is Texas without any other states...although I do think Texas would be a blow out and we would win in other places...but we have not taken Texas in decades. Thus I consider it unlikely.



Below is a Senate Map. Please note the very light greyish area have no seats up in 20...as you can see...we have to win in what is now red or purple areas. It is very difficult...and I believe it is likely we will lose Doug Jones seat...so how do we retake the Senate without appealing to moderates and perhaps even some conservatives?

CNN just reported in their new poll that Biden still has the best chance to beat Trump...not even

close. So if we pick a different candidate, we will have a very difficult time winning a general and Trump could well get four more years. Mayor Pete, has 0% AA vote. was the only other interesting thing reported...except that Biden still leads Harris in the AA community. One other interesting thing is...Harris was not picked as best to handle health care, the economy and a range of other issues.

"Kamala Harris' jump in our poll is almost assuredly because of the debates. We know this in part because Democrats overwhelmingly say she did the best of any candidate and because she saw a large jump in our poll.

But she's weak on the issues when compared to the other top candidates. Only 10% of potential Democratic primary voters say she is best to handle health care. That drops to 6% on the climate crisis and the economy. On all of these top issues, three other Democrats do better than she does."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/democratic-primary-poll-july-2019/index.html

Kamala Harris Was Not a 'Progressive Prosecutor'By Lara Bazelon Ms. Bazelon is a law professor and

the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angele

"Consider her record as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011. Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a policboratory technician who had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab. After a memo surfaced showing that Ms. Harris’s deputies knew about the technician’s wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights...

...Ms. Harris contested the ruling by arguing that the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney and had spoken publicly about the importance of disclosing evidence, had a conflict of interest. Ms. Harris lost. More than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed...Ms. Harris also championed state legislation under which parents whose children were found to be habitually truant in elementary school could be prosecuted..." In 2014, she declined to take a position on Proposition 47, a ballot initiative approved by voters, that reduced certain low-level felonies to misdemeanors. She laughed that year when a reporter asked if she would support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Ms. Harris finally reversed course in 2018, long after public opinion had shifted on the topic.

In 2015, she opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers. And she refused to support statewide standards regulating the use of body-worn cameras by police officers. For this, she incurred criticism from an array of left-leaning reformers, including Democratic state senators, the A.C.L.U. and San Francisco’s elected public defender. The activist Phelicia Jones, who had supported Ms. Harris for years, asked, “How many more people need to die before she steps in?” ...
The article has more about such issues as the death penalty... reducing penalties for non-violent offenders and wrongful incarceration and closes with a demand for Sen. Harris o break with her past...and apologize. I was quite surprised to read this and although not new is worth reading. I never saw it before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html

Attacks on Biden have no affect according to latest Morning Consult Poll

The Hyde amendment is meaningless now with the ACA and the Medicaid expansion.

This is especially true if there is a public option. Insurance wraps will cover abortion. Why risk Pennsylvania which is very conservative in terms of abortion? This will also allow pro-life indies and pubs to vote for us...I was lectured about Hugh Mello by Sanders supporters. He had sponsored anti-choice legislation...yet was supported by progressives.

"Joe Biden's Bet That 2016 Didn't Change Everything" We still need the blue wall. How we win did not

change. Nor did we veer left as the media and some Democrats insisted. The midterms showed a different reality. 2016 was an aberration with a perfect storm of trouble that hit us. Hillary took criticism from the left and the right when that happens, we lose. Comey tipped the scale with both of his unprofessional statements, we had gerrymandering and voter suppression and of course the Russians. This was an aberration and we still need the same state we always did to win. Biden can win those states. In 2018, the house flipped because of moderate Democrats. Thus there is no leftward movement in this party or this country. We are a center left country and a big tent party.

"PHILADELPHIA—If the new rules of politics post-2016 were to hold up, the official launch rally Joe Biden held here on Saturday would mean that he is in trouble: The crowd wasn’t huge, was largely white and older, and, for the most part, only really got into it when he mentioned Barack Obama or Donald Trump.

Yet Biden’s high-and-getting-higher poll numbers, the early fund-raising success that has surprised even his own aides, and the enthusiastic responses I heard from supporters who came out on a hot afternoon to see him don’t show a candidate in much trouble at all. Biden’s campaign is a bet: that in the four years since Trump launched his campaign, the country hasn’t changed, the Democratic Party hasn’t changed, and politics hasn’t changed."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/joe-biden-rally-trump-philadelphia/589780/



Do you believe elections have been changed forever because of 2016?

'Everything We Know About the Joe Biden-Ukraine Controversy.' Biden is exonerated completely (me)

'...Allies of President Trump, led by lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have been promoting the story in an attempt to cast Biden as corrupt. Last week, Giuliani called for Biden to be “investigated quickly and expeditiously.”

But there’s a problem with the suggestion that Biden was trying to help his son. The investigation into Burisma was dead long before Biden started his campaign to oust Shokin, Vitaliy Kasko, a former Ukrainian official who worked under Shokin, told Bloomberg...'

Duer's promoting this story are doing President Trump's and Gouliani's dirty work. When you are siding with Donnie the terrible, you should just stop.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/joe-biden-ukraine-controversy.html