Hot takes on the Democratic frontrunners

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The best thing he did was preventing Gabbard from winning anything.He was pretty clear about why he was running - to prevent Sanders or Warren from raising his taxes, and when he entered Biden looked very weak. Now Biden looks strong, so he feels confident that his tax rate is safe.

[eta]Now he can begin the beneficial part of his campaign, and spend lots of money to specifically beat Trump.

I agree with you about Gabbard; pass, thanks.

I also agree with you about his most effective contribution (pardon the choice of words) to the most important goal of defeating Trump.

I don't know about his claim (which I didn't see) about keeping his tax bill low by blocking the advance of the campaigns of Sanders or Warren. I think that mistakenly dismisses the function of Congress when it comes to changing taxes.

Getting a different president come November and getting a dramatically different Congress, especially the Senate come November are not the same thing.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by BigV

I don't know about his claim (which I didn't see) about keeping his tax bill low by blocking the advance of the campaigns of Sanders or Warren. I think that mistakenly dismisses the function of Congress when it comes to changing taxes.

All candidates' positions are tempered by that fact.

As for taxes, I was being uncharitable in my interpretation of his basing the decision to run [pp 3] on Biden's apparent weakness to Warren and Sanders at the time.

I'll be more charitable now, assuming he actually supports whoever wins the nomination, and, perhaps more importantly, the downballot candidates as well.