The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun, endorse Joe Biden

[Gothmog]

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[DownriverDem]

1. She's right

We are a Center/Left country. Many folks don't believe it. but it's true.

[Gothmog]

2. Thank you, Senator Mosley Braun, for the kind words.

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[peggysue2]

3. That's a glowing endorsement!

To Carol Moseley Braun.

[LakeArenal]

4. Not sure I'm center left...

But I think our candidate has to be.

Sure I’d love dream healthcare and free for all school and hot lunch for every kid. So does Joe probably. But getting there is so incremental. It’s like knowing an algorithm for getting there. Sometimes it’s lengthy.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

11. How'd that work for us last time?

[LanternWaste]

13. Post hoc ergo prompter hoc.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Yeah, don't think it's spurious. Sorry.

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We nominated a centrist candidate that people didn't like. She lost. If we are going to ignore why people didn't like her, then we will likely lose again.

You know all the "Dems just needed to get out and vote in those swing states" arguments? There are reasons they didn't. We need to figure them out. I am positing that the lack of enthusiasm for a centrist was part of it.

[progressoid]

23. This +1

[LakeArenal]

18. Ummm we won. We were cheated and hacked.

Short memory?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

20. It's not that easy.

If that is how we go into the next election, we will lose again.

[LakeArenal]

22. You are just the positive force we need.

Keep spreading those rainbows.

[progressoid]

24. If your argument is that we were cheated and hacked,

what is your candidate doing to avoid this? Because it's likely going to happen again.

[LakeArenal]

26. I'm no advisor. I don't pretend to know everything about Biden

What I know is Biden is the most qualified both nationally and globally. He’s well liked everywhere. I’m not blind to what I think are smeary half truths about Biden

Booker Harris Warren Sanders were all on the Franken Railroad. Although many of the other Senators have since expressed disappoint in their rash act of no due process, the above have failed to do so in even the remotest way. Actually they have doubled down on it. So for me that is more damning than Biden’s hugs, or something he should have made his grown son do or Not do, or something else that Republicans are trying to make important.

Is your argument that we didn’t win the vote and we weren’t hacked or cheated?

Also Joe Biden is not an office holder at this time so what is he have supposed to do about it?

Obviously you don’t like Biden. So I feel no further need for us to discuss this further.
Besides I have to go out

[emmaverybo]

5. Wonderful endorsement. The article is well worth reading. Moseley Braun gives the Biden history

many seem unaware of.

[FloridaBlues]

6. Just the right endorsement for this time! Thank you

[TwilightZone]

7. And former presidential candidate.

She dropped out after DC and endorsed Howard Dean.

[betsuni]

8. K&R

[Gothmog]

9. Joe Biden Is the Ally, Champion and Fighter We Need in 2020

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[Tarheel_Dem]

10. K&R

[Cuthbert Allgood]

12. Centrist supports centrist. Shocking.

Based on the response when progressives endorse Sanders or Warren, I guess that is the response we are supposed to have.

But, hey, good for Joe. I don't think he will win the nomination, but best of luck.

[LakeArenal]

19. I don't think Warren can possibly win the Midwest

But hey good for Warren.

Opinions everyone has one. Takes a special person to go on a pro other candidate post to buzz kill for another candidate.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

21. Have you not read this forum?

Because it's not all positive posts. But, sure, we'll pretend the "buzz kill for another candidate" responses are limited.

Clinton didn't win the Midwest, so...

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and other large midwestern states can and do go Dem. Others never will. Ohio is likely lost completely.

[stonecutter357]

27. lol you don't get much more centrist than an ex republican .

[Peacetrain]

15. K&R!!!!!!

[tritsofme]

16. Strange saga with her Senate seat.

But the long and short of it is...if she didn’t flame out in 1998, there never would have been an opening for a little known state senator named Barack Obama in 2004.

[Sloumeau]

17. Gothmog, Thanks for posting this. This is great news for Joe! :)

[Scurrilous]

25. K&R

[stonecutter357]

28. K&R