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2020-04-18 Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden says he's assembling transition team to prepare for his administration
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
has begun putting together a transition team, which may decide to circulate the names of some Cabinet nominees before November's general election.

"I don’t want to say we started thinking about it a month ago, we did, because that sounds like I was certain this was going to happen, that I would be the nominee. I don’t want it to sound like that, but it has to happen, and that’s why the transition team is already being put together," Biden told about 150 donors during his second virtual fundraiser Thursday.

The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee's announcement suggests the two-term vice president and 36-year Delaware senator is looking past his fall fight with President Trump and making tentative preparations for governing.

While Biden declined to say who was in charge of the transition team's selection, he indicated he was considering elevating some administration roles focused on global health security and pandemics, as well as climate change, to Cabinet-level spots.

"If the Lord Almighty said, ’Joe, I tell you what. You have to decide in three hours what your Cabinet is, or you’re going to be bounced out of the race,’ I could write down who could be in the Cabinet. There are at least two or three people qualified for every one of those positions," he said.

Biden, at another online fundraiser this month, said the task could take him 15 minutes. At that event, he told donors he had discussed his potential Cabinet with former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
and his old boss, former President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
. He also said he had started conversations with a range of people about whether they were willing to join him, seeking those who complemented his knowledge gaps and who "physically look like the country." He may err toward "younger, really qualified" candidates "to build a bench" of future leaders, according to the pool report.

Posted by Fred 2020-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Well there are a lot of people sitting around with nothing better to do. A diversion from fantasy football for now.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-18 07:26||   2020-04-18 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 A new shadow gummint. "42% of the electorate said we should be in charge..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 07:43||   2020-04-18 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 A Biden "shadow government?" Are we about to see the return of ValJar, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Lynch, and Holder ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-18 08:23||   2020-04-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Fuckin' guy can't even string two coherent sentences together, and I'm supposed to taker this seriously?
Posted by Raj 2020-04-18 09:09||   2020-04-18 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 He can borrow Hillary's... they're not doing anything.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-18 09:16||   2020-04-18 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Joe got it wrong again. He meant to say, The team that is preparing to transition his campaign to his replacement after his mind goes completely
Posted by Lex 2020-04-18 09:51||   2020-04-18 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 It's beyond pathetic. Remove this poor addled goof from public life. ASAP.

If it's going to be Cuomo, fine, bring him forth. Big Mike, who/whatever. But it's bad for the nation to have one of its major political parties headed by a goof who's clearly suffering from dementia.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-18 09:54||   2020-04-18 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 He's preparing to be that guy in the mental ward who swears he's the President of the United States.
Nurse Ratchet will be his V-P.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-18 10:05||   2020-04-18 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Nurse Ratchet (HildaB) will be his V-P.

He's a goner for sure.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-18 10:59||   2020-04-18 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Transitioning to administered dementia drugs.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-18 13:15||   2020-04-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-04-18 15:01||   2020-04-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

#12 "Enema of the Peehole: A Joe Biden Crime Novel"
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 15:18||   2020-04-18 15:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Joe confused "transition team" with "transsexual team" and said, "I will pick a damn lying horse-faced tranny soldier for my Vice President".
Posted by Bubba Claing1437 2020-04-18 15:31||   2020-04-18 15:31|| Front Page Top

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