In time for the election, clerihews!

With the election at our throats, I went back and looked at some of the clerihews I created for the candidates.

Joe Biden

lingers in his basement listening to Haydn. But he's been seen in many a horror feature in supporting roles as yet another swamp creature

Donald Trump
called his critic a chump.
Actually, he used some more colorful words,
but so far has avoided flipping birds.

Because he's President, he gets two ...

Donald Trump
on the stump
will almost always spout a platitude
or something rude.

Kamala Harris
didn't mean to embarrass,
but her family's reaction to her Jamaican drug joke
suggests her presidential campaign might just go up in smoke.

Mike Pence
just makes sense.
Even his disciplined hair
contrasts with the Donald's hirsute flair.

And some of the other candidates - 

Pete Buttigieg
sought to give his slim electoral hopes a nudge.
Hence
his gratuitous attack on Vice President Mike Pence.

Amy Klobuchar 
hoped her low-key, quiet ways would take her far, 
but in launching her campaign she failed to note 
there are just not enough librarians available to vote.

Elizabeth Warren 
campaigned in the restaurant of a Salvadoran. 
When she tasted a pupusa she said, 
"Why, this is just like my mother's Cherokee fry bread."

Bernie Sanders 
gets uneasy whenever he spots chameleons and salamanders. 
He yells and waves his hands above his head 
because he knows if they get near him they'll turn red.

Beto O'Rourke 
decided to uncork
some Spanish instead of an answer, so
he replied, "Gargarizo con el queso."

Senator Cory Booker
is more than a side-looker.
After all, as he told us,
he is Spartacus. 

Kirsten Gillibrand 

was building a castle in the sand, 
but whenever the winds would shift, 
her sand would drift.

Vermin Supreme 
awoke from a bad dream. 
In it, Democratic candidates at a joint ceremony 
promised everyone a free pony.

Pax et bonum