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Fierce fight forward as presidential primaries poll prospects

Even though the American people are anticipating a fierce fight between the Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2020 presidential elections, a critic says one candidate is “weak.”

Greg Tift is a former State of N.J. employee, board member of CWA, and opinion writer and critic.
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While Rep. Incumbent President Donald J. Trump is looking forward to a second term in the Oval Office, he will have to contest the Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Joe Biden in the official presidential elections Nov. 3, this year.

With the 2020 Presidential Primary elections now wrapping up after voters have been going to both the polls and mailing in ballots, the critic questions Biden’s candidacy, while also criticizing Prez. Trump’s worthiness.

Greg Tift, a former State of New Jersey employee, Communications Workers of America (CWA) board member, and opinion writer, states that Biden is “Joe, the tailor-made foe.”

Tift explains that, “while Democrats are hopeful Biden will be the man that can defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Elections, Republicans are thrilled by the prospect.”

He claims this is the case because Biden is “tailor-made” for the Republicans to campaign against because he is a “Republican sympathizer,” despite the way they treated his boss, Former Prez. Barack Obama (the first U.S. black president), when he was Obama’s vice president for eight years prior to Trump.

In his criticism, Tift claims that Biden still believes, “there are fine Republicans, and I look forward to working with them.”

And when criticizing Prez. Trump’s worthiness, Tift states that “although it was obvious from day one that Trump was woefully unfit to be president, it didn’t matter because he was a white man superseding a black man.”

He continues that, despite being the worse president imaginable, Trump survives lying, treason and impeachment, just so he can get a second term, all while destroying the country in the process.

With the claim that there is fear in the country that the demographics will change and that will make it more difficult for the Republicans to win presidential elections in the future, he said now is the “time to exploit white-anxiety for political gain.”

2020 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Joe Biden.
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He infers Trump’s, “playbook/strategy: resentment, fear, and yes, hate. Thus, “’make America (hate) great again.’”

Thus, with all these issues, Tift believes that the Republicans are also looking forward to working with Biden because he is “either a double-agent or naïve.”

He also says the Republicans have a lot of dirt on Biden and that they still hate Obama.

“Joe will be treated like Obama during the election, win or lose,” he states.

And, “losing against Biden is the last thing Republicans worry about. …they are already celebrating. Biden…can’t be trusted, and he is weak…just the way the Republicans like it,” he states.

 

  • Greg Tift contributed to this report
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Who won vice presidential debates Thursday night?

Even though the general consensus is that incumbent democractic, Vice President, Joe Biden, won Thursday’s vice presidential debate, reports still exist that republican vice president nominee, Paul Ryan, won, shows Crimson Hexagon Inc. in a variety of graphics imported below.

This image shows that Ryan did better in the Vice Presidential debate Thursday night.

The conflict comes from different analyses. Two of those report analyses are used for this story. NBC Politics used ForSight that was developed by Crimson Hexagon Inc. ForSight is a data platform that is not the same as traditional survey.

This graphic shows Joe Biden as the debate winner.

M. Alex Johnson explains that, “NBC Politics analyzed 517,000 posts using a tool called ForSight, a data platform developed by Crimson Hexagon Inc., which many research and business organization have adopted to gauge public opinion in new media.” He continues, “It isn’t the same as a traditional survey, which seeks to reflect national opinion; instead, it’s a broad, non-predictive snapshot of what’s being said by Americans who follow politics and are active on Facebook, Twitter or both at a particular moment in time and why they’re saying it.”

On the other hand, Jana Kasperkevic of Hearst Washington Bureau, writes on her politics blog, that Ryan definitely won the debate according to a Twitter analysis.

Kasperkevic states that there could be a draw or a victory for both candidates of that debate, depending on which pundit one prefers. However, she states that according to social media, there is only one winner and that is Ryan.

During the debate, the candidates were judged on several issues, such as foreign policy, economic status, abortion, healthcare reform, among others. They were also judged on their styles and the substance to their arguments. Each won in different areas.

This chart shows Biden as the winner of the Vice Presidential debate Thursday night.

However, incumbent Vice President Biden, demeanor throughout the debate was a bit different from candidate Ryan’s because he laughed, smiled and smirked. Some people especially, the republicans subtracted points from Biden’s performance based on this style.

Biden’s opponent, Ryan, was not transparent enough on his plans to about foreign policy, healthcare and even abortion. Even though Twitter claimed he was more popular on its platform, Ryan seemed to lack popularity with his replies, as they lacked substance, according to general consensus.