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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, March 15, 2020: 

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Ed Rendell told host John Catsimatidis on his AM-970 radio show “The Cats Roundtable” on Sunday, “It looks like the nomination will be virtually clinched after next Tuesday.” He added that it would take a miracle for Bernie Sanders to overcome Biden’s present lead in delegates, even if he stays in the race until the bitter end.

Rendell, the former governor of Pennsylvania, then offered his thoughts on whom Biden might pick for his running mate, suggesting that he would likely pick a woman because they will cast “56 to 57 percent of the vote” for president in November.

He named his choice: “My personal favorite would be Amy Klobuchar … a moderate, left-of-center candidate. I think she showed a good sense of humor during the primaries. She showed some real strength … the ability to stand up under fire. And she’s from the Midwest [she is the senior senator from Minnesota]. We need somebody from the middle of the country because that’s where this election’s going to be decided.”

Damon Linker, writing for The Week magazine, agrees. Klobuchar “would bolster Biden’s moderate bona fides, [she would] project competence [and] help to ensure that her home state continues to vote blue.”

Last fall, Biden opened the door wider, to include former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates (“the former assistant attorney general who got fired” by Trump), Stacy Abrams (“the woman who should have been governor of Georgia”), and “the two senators from the state of New Hampshire”: Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.

Ed Kilgore of New York magazine likes Abrams as well. She would “enhance Biden’s strength among African-Americans, which is critical to his campaign.… She’d also likely put her home state of Georgia in play with its 16 electoral votes.”

If Biden waits until after he has the nomination sewn up the speculation will continue, likely expanding further to include California Senator Kamala Harris and even Michelle Obama.

But one woman who has been waiting in the wings, lusting for another chance at Trump, isn’t part of the conversation: Hillary Rodham Clinton. As The New American pointed out last November, Clinton sounds like someone all suited up, waiting on the bench for the coach to call her into the game to replace an injured starter:

I feel a sense of responsibility partly because you know my name was on the ballot, I got more votes, but ended up losing to the current incumbent in the White House who I think is really undermining our democracy in very fundamental ways.

 

And I want to retire him.

She and her daughter, Chelsea, spent the fall touring the country touting their latest book, The Book of Gutsy Women, with the implication that she would be, or should be (but wasn’t) included as one of them.

And now, the most remarkable coincidence of all is the release of Hillary, a four-part documentary available on Hulu as of March 6. In an interview with the Television Critics Association about the documentary, Hillary removed all doubt about her willingness to go in for the injured Biden:

I want people to take their vote really, really seriously, because Lord knows what will happen if we don’t retire the current incumbent and his henchmen, as Nancy Pelosi so well describes them….

 

I am on the side of an inclusive, generous, open-hearted country that faces up to the future [to] make difficult choices. We’re in a real struggle with a form of politics that is incredibly negative, exclusive, mean-spirited and it’s going to be up to every voter, not only people who vote in Democratic primaries, to recognize this is no ordinary time.

Joel Gilbert, writing in the American Thinker, asked rhetorically: “Whom will Joe Biden endorse, by design, on the eve of the Democrat Party Convention when he announces that, on the advice of his wife and doctors, he will not pursue the Democrat Party nomination?… After having watched Joe Biden’s further descent into senility and confusion between March and July, who will relieved Democrats, women especially, embrace as their tried and true candidate?”

“Answer: Hillary.”

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, March 9, 2020: 

Please note: this writer agrees with something a member of the New York Times’ editorial board wrote! Michelle Cottle posted her opinion about Joe Biden’s mental health on Friday, with which this writer is in complete agreement: Uncle Joe has lost it and needs some serious work.

She opined:

Mr. Biden has suddenly gone from being gently ignored – like the dotty uncle who’s forever talking nonsense at family get-togethers – to being touted as the man to beat….

 

No matter how super Mr. Biden’s Super Tuesday, it did not magically erase all the factors that kept his campaign becalmed for so long. Joe is still Joe, with all his charms and foibles. And even as his team prepares for external threats, they also recognize that a key part of their job going forward is to protect the candidate from himself….

 

[Biden suffers from] verbal incontinence. Mr. Biden likes to talk, a lot. And he tends to wander off on tangents, switch directions and erupt in non sequiturs.

 

Every time he speaks, Democrats hold their breath.

And well they should. The president has put together a “greatest hits” compilation of Biden’s gaffes from the past, adding “WOW! Sleepy Joe doesn’t know where he is, or what he’s doing. Honestly, I don’t think he even knows what office he’s running for!”

Trump was referring specifically to a gaffe Biden made last month when he asked voters in South Carolina to consider him for the United States Senate.

A few days later he introduced a Senate candidate as the “next president.” He also claimed

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, March 9, 2020: 

Now that the polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight has all but called the contest over, with Joe Biden’s chances of winning his party’s nomination for president at nine out of 10 on the first ballot in July, Democrats are now focusing on the mental health of their likely candidate to face the president in the general election.

Justin Horwitz, a Democrat strategist, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday that there is an increasing consensus among top Democrats that “Uncle Joe” is in steep mental “decline.”

He told Tucker, “People in the Democratic establishment say, ‘Oh, don’t say that.’ They really believe they can shield Joe Biden from public scrutiny.… The reality is, they can’t.… We all see what’s going on here and it’s going to be a disaster if we nominate Joe Biden.”

Afterwards Horwitz tweeted:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, March 4, 2020: 

After dropping an estimated $700 million into his campaign, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it a day on Wednesday morning: “I’ve always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it. After yesterday’s vote, it is clear that candidate is my friend and a great American, Joe Biden.”

Bloomberg expanded, “I’ve known Joe for a very long time. I know his decency, his honesty, and his commitment to the issues that are so important to our country — including gun safety, health care, climate change, and good jobs.”

Biden’s campaign came back from the dead

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, March 2, 2020:

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina on Saturday — called “thundering” by the AP, “decisive” by the New York Times and a “runaway victory” by the Wall Street Journal — accomplished many things, including breathing new life into his stumbling, bumbling run for the roses in Milwaukee in July.

His 30-point lead over distant second-place finisher Bernie Sanders ended the campaigns of Tom Steyer and Pete Buttigieg, while putting Amy Klobuchar’s campaign on the ropes. Biden won every county, obtaining nearly 50 percent of the total votes cast, compared to just 20 percent captured by Sanders. Biden enjoyed support from nearly two of every three black voters who make up almost 60 percent of the state’s Democrat voters. Elizabeth Warren came in at just seven percent, Klobuchar at three percent, and Tulsi Gabbard at one percent.

More importantly

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, March 2, 2020: 

John Ratcliffe, a Republican House member representing the 4^th District of Texas, wasn’t quite ready for prime time last summer when President Trump nominated him as Director of National Intelligence. When he learned of the gauntlet he would face by Senate Democrats (and some Republicans), he quickly backed off.

Trump’s initial tweet in July 2019 was enthusiastic:

I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated by me to be the Director of National Intelligence. A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves.

But when the media began looking into his background, resistance began to build. Ratcliffe was accused of padding his resume, not having any experience in intelligence matters, and, worst of all, backing Trump 100 percent. When it was revealed that the law that created the DNI following 9/11 included this proviso – that it was “desirable” that he be an active-duty commissioned officer in the armed forces (he wasn’t), or have training or experience in military intelligence activities (he didn’t) – anti-Trump politicians and the media saw their chance to hand the president a high-profile defeat.

Trump backed off and gave Ratcliffe a gracious exit. Said Trump: “I could see that the press was treating him, I thought, very unfairly. I asked him, ‘Do you want to go through this for two or three months, or would you want me to maybe do something else?'” Ratcliffe agreed and Trump tweeted:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, February 28, 2020: 

After interviewing 93 of the 771 superdelegates waiting in the wings to vote on the second ballot at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee in July, the New York Times reported that only nine of them support democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders for the party’s nomination to face Donald Trump in the general election.

Not only does the vast majority not support Sanders, they are willing to risk alienating his supporters by naming someone else — almost anyone else — to challenge the president. That would be the second time in four years that Sanders’ supporters will claim that they have been ripped off. The superdelegates are, according to the Times, “willing to risk intraparty damage [in order] to stop his nomination at the convention.” The paper also “found overwhelming opposition [among them] to handing the Vermont senator the nomination if he arrived with the most delegates but fell short of the [required] majority” to capture the nomination on the first ballot.

One of those superdelegates interviewed, Jay Jacobs, the New York State Democratic Party chairman, said

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 24, 2020: 

Following “Democratic Socialist” Bernie Sanders’ runaway victory in Nevada on Saturday, Democrats are fearing the worst: He might actually win the Party’s nomination in July even though he isn’t officially a member of the Democratic Party.

Although the Vermont senator is likely to lose to Joe Biden this coming Saturday in South Carolina, the margin is predicted to be narrow. All he needs is to win most of the delegates up for grabs on the following Super Tuesday, and pundits are saying he’ll have it all but locked up.

The liberal Atlantic magazine wrung its hands over the prospect: “With Senator Bernie Sanders’ massive win in Nevada, he’s taken the lead in delegates and may never lose it. Efforts to top him so far have been ineffectual.” Left-wing Mother Jones complained, “While Sanders’ opponents may agree that he won’t make the best nominee, none can agree on how to actually stop him.”

When House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) was asked if a Sanders candidacy would hurt downline Democrats in November, he responded, “I do believe it will be an extra burden for us to have to carry,” adding,

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, February 21, 2020: 

Mary Anne Marsh, one of the more insightful of Fox News‘ political commentators, got it wrong about the outcome of Wednesday night’s Democratic debate. She wrote “There was one winner [Elizabeth Warren] and five losers at the end of the debate: Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and [Michael] Bloomberg, who turned out to be the biggest loser of all.”

Somehow Marsh has missed what Bloomberg is up to.

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 20, 2020: 

Despite being targeted by his Democrat opponents during Wednesday night’s so-called debate, Mike Bloomberg’s strategy remains in place: to fracture the race so that no one wins on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

Bloomberg seized on the first question from an NBC moderator by telling the audience that Bernie Sanders (Bloomberg’s next target now that Biden is fading in the stretch) would lose to the president because of his healthcare proposal that would replace private coverage with government-run socialized healthcare: “I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator [from Vermont] beating President Trump. If he [Sanders] is the candidate, we will have Donald Trump for another four years, and we can’t stand that.”

He broadened his attack on his opponents near the end of the debate: