2020 Democratic presidential primary

I’m still rooting for an all-woman ticket. I think Gillibrand has the best shot at being at the top of said ticket. Would love to see Harris do a little more work at not being such a prosecutor, as I (and many, many others, with more at stake) have pointed out before. I think Warren wants to run so that she can bring attention to her signature issues, but she likes her current job and is really good at it.

Am still waiting for a potential candidate to start talking about what our foreign policy needs to look like, and I mean more than platitudes about allies.

It doesn’t matter though because if I’m not happy with the candidates I will run myself

Treesh between this and the cat diet book I am suspicious of your ability to follow through on great ideas.

sorry, that was rude. but no, not a chance. to run for president with only 2 years of legislative experience would take a freight train's worth of political momentum.

Cat President xp

Symmetry required, etc

Booker has skeletons for a youngish guy (con man, lifestyle)

Obama had two full years of being a US senator before he began campaigning in earnest for 2008. If Beto were to win this year, he'd have to immediately begin working towards 2020. No time spent as a Senator at all.

Harris is basically the Obama of this race, calendar wise.

that makes sense

I think Harris would be good against trump tbh. I don’t see her getting fazed or bamboozled.

Oh no, she'd welcome it

Trumpish, only whiny not slobby

https://splinternews.com/michael-bloomberg-becomes-a-democrat-just-in-time-for-a-1829651504

I've been assuming the base would chew up and spit out some of these awful charlatans but the response to avenatti makes me smdh

I think the Dems will wanna run with "who will Trump's attack style be least effective against"

Bannon is out there saying Aventatti would be hardest to beat so they probably have dirt on him

Bannon is out there saying a bunch of horseshit i assume as he is a living sack of horseshit

really? seems like a fine chap

i just think it is impossible to derive any useful information from anything he "says" aka anything that sputters fartfully from his infinitely joweled face

In another half a year, how this is shaping will become much plainer. Speculating very hard when we still have the midterms in front of us seems like playing a board game with lots of the pieces missing.

Really hope this fucker formally drops out in the near future

BREAKING: Former VP @joebiden will present this year’s #LibertyMedal award to former President George W. Bush and former First Lady @laurawbush for their commitment to veterans.

The ceremony will take place on #VeteransDay, November 11, in #Philadelphia: https://t.co/jnl1ouWrmk pic.twitter.com/KdcYhDHy31

— National Constitution Center (@ConstitutionCtr) October 10, 2018

gross

I would hope Biden would be disqualified in this day and age just based on the Anita Hill episode alone

W loves vets, he made so many of them

I would hope Biden would be disqualified in this day and age just based on the Anita Hill episode alone

― Οὖτις, 10. oktober 2018 18:10 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, after Kavanaugh I don't think he has a chance. Perhaps the Bush thing is a sign that he knows he doesn't have a chance, and has stopped preparing and just does the shitty stuff he wants to do.

No Biden no Bloomberg no old fucking white men

Julian Castro sez he's "likely" to run

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/julian-castro-2020-president-run-738584/

No Biden no Bloomberg no old fucking white men

IT'S 1977!

Castro sez he's "likely" to run

many are called, but few are chosen

gotta dig out my JULIAN CASTRO FOR MAYOR SOLD US OUT shirt from the drawer

lmao at the poll showing Biden way ahead only counting ppl who are 45+

(I know, I know, they vote in droves, but still.)

I don't get the joke? Biden was still ahead with people under 45. He beat Sanders 26% to 21%. 33% to 13% overall, and 39% to 8% over 45. I don't see what's so funny about that?

It was my (possibly wrong) understanding not enough under 45s were even polled there to provide a workable figure

anyway my 2020 candidate will need to have a "radical left" climate stance bcz gradualism is out the window.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/climate-change-united-nations-report-nordhaus-nobel

All the old, white men need to sit out and put their full throated support behind a not-old, white man candidate. But they never fucking learn.

I read this as "all the old, white men need to slit their throats..."

i am fine with that too.

It was my (possibly wrong) understanding not enough under 45s were even polled there to provide a workable figure

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), 16. oktober 2018 22:49 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The CNN article presents the numbers, but in the poll it says N/A, yeah. But pollsters weigh demographics, so even if they've reached fewer people under 45 than they wanted to (which they almost certainly have) the answers they have from young people potentially count for more. Or less, perhaps, the disparity between who votes in primaries is pretty big as well.

(Aimless raises his hand to his throat and touches it gently, thoughtfully.)

you're one of the good ones

viz., not a politician, as far as we know

so there was a page-one feature in the NYT last Friday about Sherrod Brown saying he's considering a run

he's been a liberal a lot longer than Gillibrand

whatever else, the race for the democratic nomination is going to be hotly contested in 2020. Beyond the 13 names in the OP poll, there must be at least another 10 by now who are rumored to be weighing their chances. I voted 'someone else' on general principles. odd that gillebrand got left out of the OP poll.

seems like a good time to buy low on alison lundergan grimes i guess

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article217669790.html

I fear the Grimes brand may be irreversibly tainted.

I believed she had a shot a beating McConnell, widely hated by GOP voters and in Kentucky, but she couldn't do it. Don't know how she'd do on a national stage. She's no Beto.

Oh wait, I just clicked through...she's aiming for governor. I'd like to think any Dem with a pulse who's ever fired a rifle could beat Bevin, but who knows.

was that an elon musk joke

somebody get Alex Padilla to run imo

did i tell this thread about the incredible email i received from an angry harris supporter after i was quoted online expressing some skepticism about harris?

i remember that, but maybe on FB