Nicholas Kristof: Why Biden is the change candidate

[highplainsdem]

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/03/06/nicholas-kristof-why/

If you want to oust President Donald Trump this fall and then achieve far-reaching changes such as universal health care, who should you vote for?

Until last week, the answer for many was Bernie Sanders, the champion of a “political revolution” that includes “Medicare for All.” But increasingly there’s a sense that in practice the real “change candidate” may be Joe Biden — because he has a better chance of winning the presidency and helping to elect a Democratic Congress — and that’s why he was the big winner Super Tuesday.

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We in the pundit world are awful at predictions, and we should all be humbled by the conventional wisdom of 2016 that Trump was unelectable. Still, Sanders is the single most liberal member of the Senate, according to GovTrack, and old-timers remember what happened to Barry Goldwater on the right and George McGovern on the left. Democratic members of the House — who presumably know something about their own districts — say that it would be harder for them to win with Sanders at the top of the ticket.

At a dinner with a dozen Democratic House members recently, I was struck by how worried some were that a Sanders nomination would cost them any chance of a Democratic Senate and might even hand the House itself back to Republicans.

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Kristof goes on to say that he's closer to Sanders' position on some issues than he is to Biiden's, and he admires Sanders' leadship on some issues, but he adds, "I don’t think Sanders would be able to accomplish his aims as president any more than he has been able to as a senator."

He thinks that with Biden, we Democrats "have a good chance of winning the presidency, holding the House and perhaps taking the Senate."

And that makes Biden's goals more achievable. So he's the real change candidate.

[highplainsdem]

1. kick

[Cha]

2. Gotta go.. read this when I get back.. TY, hpd!

[Cha]

3. "And that makes Biden's goals more achievable. So he's the real change candidate."

Thank You, hpd!

[highplainsdem]

4. You're welcome, Cha! And yes, if change is just talk and not achievable, the

candidate doing the talking isn't really a change candidate.