Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News If Joe Biden wins the presidency in November, health is likely to play a high-profile role in his agenda. Just probably not in the way he or anyone else might have predicted. Barring something truly unforeseen, it’s fairly certain that on Jan. 20 the U.S. will still be in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic — and the economic dislocation … Continue reading Biden’s Big Health Agenda Won’t Be Easy to Achieve
Well, just as I suspected, there was no presidential debate this week. After Trump tested positive for COVID, Biden refused to participate in the next debate, which was to be a town hall style event with questions from a live audience, if Trump was still contagious. The Commission on Presidential Debates offered to hold a virtual debate, which Trump refused to participate in, and Trump’s … Continue reading The Debates Are Better When They Aren’t Debates
By Paul Wiele for Pyramid Welcome to my self-inflicted purgatory: the first 2020 general election debate! First off: as you know, I am not much of a Biden fan and absolutely despise Trump, so I will be replacing my primary “worst point by someone I like” and “best point by someone I dislike” with: Worst Expression of a Good Point: Trump is actually right that his … Continue reading The first debate could have gone worse. Possibly. Somehow.
On June 27, ten candidates debated in Miami, each hoping to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in July 2020. The night before, ten lesser-known candidates (with Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker the outliers, at least until Julian Castro’s breakout performance elevated him out of the doldrums) had a relatively civil debate that was heavy on policy on light on political jabs, even against … Continue reading Busing, Biden, and the Looming Question of Age
Last night, voters had the opportunity to see the first ten candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. In a policy-heavy and not particularly exciting debate, the candidates showed that the differences between them have a lot more to do with how they would accomplish goals like universal health care, immigration reform, or addressing climate change. Or they’re John Delaney and they think that they’ll … Continue reading Debatable: The second 10 candidates
You don’t exactly have to scour the internet to see Democrats are concerned about Joe Biden’s seemingly indestructible lead in the 2020 presidential election. There are certainly indicators that his lead has shrunk and Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Kamala Harris have all survived Biden’s entrance into the race and are the only candidates to poll at 5% or higher since he formally … Continue reading It isn’t the DNC that’s pushing Joe Biden. It’s our fear.
One of the big questions that haunts the Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks? series is: when does someone get a profile? Does it come when they’ve announced their candidacy? When they announce an exploratory committee? When they are very, very, obviously considering a run, Joseph? The answer has been, mostly, when they start some kind of campaign. For some, that’s been exploratory committee … Continue reading Fine, okay, let’s talk about Joe Biden
We’re deep in the middle of the 2020 presidential election but it’s March of 2019 and we should not be in the middle of an election that’s still nearly two years away. In an effort to restore some sanity to the earth, here’s a very nonsensical listicle. You’re… welcome? There are currently fourteen candidates with campaigns or exploratory committees who we’ve profiled in the Who … Continue reading We’re ranking the Democratic candidates by how silly their names sound
