“My whole body is tense, like Joe Biden is whispering a dirty joke in my ear.”— Joe Wengert, Mark Levin, Kelly Galuska, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Glouberman, John Mulaney, imdb.com
“Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?”— Erin Brockovich, theguardian.com
“As outgoing President Donald Trump continues to ignore and withhold information from Biden’s transition team, Biden forged ahead Tuesday, announcing several key hires.”— Henry J. Gomez, Nidhi Prakash, buzzfeednews.com
“Stop thinking presidential elections are about the two people whose names are on your ballot. That’s juvenile and naive. Those elections are not about an individual personality, but about structural power. They are about budgets and systems and their architectures, judges and wealth.”— Charles M. Blow, twitter.com
“From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters…”— Jonathan Chait, nymag.com
“Michael Bloomberg, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to self-fund his 2020 presidential run, announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign after a poor performance on Super Tuesday and will endorse Joe Biden.”— Alexi McCammond, axios.com
“Even on hot-button issues like race, Biden was proud of his ability to foster compromise and centrism. It’s a legacy that hasn’t aged as well in a Democratic Party which is more apt to burn its one-time idols than study their historiography.”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“Earlier this year, I wrote that Biden’s campaign made me sick with fear for the future because at a time when radical change is needed, he doesn’t represent a meaningful possibility for that to happen. I still believe this, but his debate performance made me wonder how he can make it through the 202…”— Lucy Diavolo, teenvogue.com
“‘We gotta move to the center,’ ‘We gotta move to those white guys,’ ‘We gotta move to those working-class people’ or ‘We gotta double down on the social agenda.’ It’s a false choice. They are totally compatible. I have never said anything to the A.C.L.U. that I wouldn’t say to the Chamber of Commerc…”— Joe Biden, mobile.nytimes.com
“How eerily history seems to be repeating itself! But this time it is the fate of the entire nation that hangs in the balance. Trump is a stormily dynamic change-maker who will surely win this election unless the Democrats get their house in order and nominate a figure of honor and integrity. Bernie…”— Camille Paglia, salon.com