The Biden for President campaign opened its Massachusetts state office in Quincy this week. Mass. State Director John Laadt, the organizer of the event, introduced Representative Claire Cronin and Ian Moskowitz, the Biden for President campaign’s NH State Director to those who filled the room to capacity on a viciously stormy wintry night.
Most of those present were under 30, and were an idealistic and, to this participant, incredibly impressive group. People drove from all over the state to volunteer for the Biden campaign both here in Massachusetts and to travel out of state to places like Iowa and New Hampshire to elect Joe Biden.
I stepped into the freezing rain optimistic not only about the Biden campaign, but indeed also about the future of America.
In my case I’m already closer to the Nashua and Salem offices than I am to Quincy.
I’m fired up and ready to GO,GO,GO FOR JOE! I rode shotgun for the author to the HQ opening and can attest to the youthful excitement about Joe’s campaign. We were both surprised to see such an enthusiastic group of volunteers out on a cold, stormy night!
Speaker of the New Hampshire House, Steve Shurtleff, endorsed Joe Biden yesterday. The US Army veteran said : “Joe cares about real people, not just poll numbers or political fights, and he has spent his entire career working to ensure that the middle class gets a fair shot. That’s exactly the type of leader we need in the White House.”
Um, no.
Ha. Yeah. Maybe it was literally all his youth supporters who showed up.
Ha!
Interesting story about youth support by talking to a diverse group of Ariana Grande fans.
Notice how all of them state specific causes that are driving their political interest, very few mention Trump at all, and how there’s a very very very narrow range of candidates they support.
It seems that young people are engaged about issues that matter to them. They want something to vote FOR.
There’s a generation saying that #VoteBlueNoMatterWho doesn’t cut it. For those voters who press the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho battle cry the most, will you listen?
We all prefer to have something to be for, but their choices will be Trump or whomever we nominate. If they really prefer Trump over ours that is their prerogative I guess, but I cannot respect them staying home and sulking. They can and should help us choose our nominee by voting in the upcoming primaries, starting by seeing if their state requires them to be registered Dems by a certain deadline first.
There’s truth to both points. #NeverBiden or #DemExit are politically untenable positions and an example in my judgment of voters privileging their purity over the very real risks a second Trump term will cause. Everyone should hold their nose for the nominee, no matter who he or she is. I also dislike seeing wealthy donors and socially liberal plutocrats complaining about Warren or Sanders tax policies and saying they might sit on the sidelines or stalwart Dems say they would not vote for Bernie because he has not been a party man. We cannot afford four more years. So no third parties and we will unite behind the nominee. It’s truly all hands on deck.
That said, we cannot repeat the same arrogant attitude that the DNC and Clinton campaign had in 2016 that it’s their way or the highway. There is something to be said about reaching out to young voters and non habitual voters proactively instead of lecturing them to check their state party websites before they vote or calling them stupid or naive for having ideals. I want a nominee who can inspire as well as unify, because without their combination they cannot win.
“Biden Youth” reminds me of a punchline of a Burns and Schreiber routine, where Burns says he is on his way to a rally of “young Catholics for Scoop Jackson.”