2020 Democratic presidential primary

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections-2020/2019/02/27/sources-beto-orourke-wontchallenge-john-cornyn-senate-paving-way-presidential-bid

Running for VP woooo

Its so crowded

lame

i really hate he wasn't able to unseat Cruz but i'm reeeeeeal tired of this dude now

From a purely selfish POV, he’s more likely to win the presidency than unseat Cornyn Imo and he’s extremely unlikely to win the presidency. Cruz is another matter but Cruz is not on the ballot in 2020. But this sucks.

Beto's out of office. He's ambitious. There seem to be people with influence and money who are pushing him to run for president, who'll pay for his campaign expenses for a while. He'll automatically gain name recognition and the sort of stature that comes with national media attention. He has nothing to lose even if he loses. Makes sense that he'd give it a shot and hope that luck breaks his way.

i really hate he wasn't able to unseat Cruz but i'm reeeeeeal tired of this dude now

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, February 28, 2019 12:06 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his sell-by date came up awful quick, didn't it?

I still think that ultimately he'd be Beto better off getting a job w/the DNC, and maybe eventually challenging Abbott in '22.

his sell-by date came up awful quick, didn't it?

Anyone looks good put up against a Lovecraftian fish-man.

In a weird sort of way, it kinda personally gives me hope.

https://i.imgur.com/hXHpAnS.jpg

his sell-by date came up awful quick, didn't it?

for me it as finding out about all his needlessly terrible votes as a rep.

was*

but all that "i don't really 'do' labels" bullshit wrt to "progressivism" or "dem socialism" or whatever did't help matters

I like him, hope he has a future in politics

he seems like a nice guy who had a very mediocre stint in congress, who lost against Ted Cruz, who went on some peyote instagram/blogging vacation and now wants to run for president. Everything checks out.

lol, I still think he has potential

potential is the greatest achievement of the mediocre white man.

He has excellent potential as a podcast host. Music and politics, now on Pod Save America

He looks like one of the YouTubers my kid watches.

Or all of them.

an old ilxor noize dude was in that nyt article as a prior roommate. I would vote for the noize dude over beto.

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Curse o' the Irish

I polled myself and I’m currently leaning buttigieg

They mean to say Harris tells people what they want to hear and then trips as she walks two steps back. (I should bill for this.) https://t.co/R8g0iTs6c1

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 3, 2019

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in

Eric Holder out

ladies and gentlemen, the future president of the united states of america, mr john hickenlooper

Hickenlooper cites experience in restaurant industry and as mayor in working across divisions.

"I would go to Mitch McConnell, to his office, and I would sit down with him and say, 'Now, what is the issue again?' and we would talk...Sounds silly right? But this works." https://t.co/gRLW9lrMdO

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) March 4, 2019

poor mitch, sitting alone in his office. and he would so dearly love to compromise on something, if only someone would come to call.

he just wants to get things done, our Mitch

jesus what a fucking loser

More like hickenloser amirite

Otoh our Nation's onomasticians cry out for Buttigieg/Hickenlooper '20, Make America Giggle Again

BIG LOOP, aka the hickeendriver

too many pol threads as is so not gonna revive the Dem strategy thread where this probably belongs, but I thought this interview with a self-identified neoliberal about how the left needs to be handed the reigns to party power was worth sharing

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/3/4/18246381/democrats-clinton-sanders-left-brad-delong?__twitter_impression=true

Savvy guy. Center libs will have their chance again but first they’ll have more leverage after the center is reset to the left and the right realizes if it ever does that it would prefer Obama.

And the left will either do a great job in which case yay bc they want great things for Americans or they’ll fuck up in which case neolibs will get another shot

Hickenlooper 2020: Now, What is the Issue Again?

Merkley out

wait, he was in?

i can never see that guy’s name without thinking of merkin muffley from dr strangelove

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-party-ideology/index.html

The real question then is not which part of the party is on the rise -- it's the AOC/Bernie Sanders wing for sure -- but rather how those moderates and conservatives are treated by the liberals in the party. Will they be driven out as insufficiently loyal to the cause -- as tea party (and Trump) Republicans have done to their own centrist wing over the last decade? Or will liberals find a way to incorporate the views of their more moderate party members as they try to find a candidate who can oust President Donald Trump in 2020?

interesting to cite the extremely unsuccessful strategy of the right-wing of the GOP to win the 2016 presidential election.

Breaking: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday that he will not run for president in 2020, saying he will instead focus on his clean energy and gun safety efforts https://t.co/pNUo2nkgzJ

— POLITICO (@politico) March 5, 2019

cool. sooner the field thins out the better, just to spare us tedious articles abt the overstuffed crowd etc etc. gabbard next please, and i guess there's some guy named john delaney who's still technically running. at this point i will vote for anyone who promises to bring an end to 538's terrible series of mistitled "how so-and-so could win the democratic nomination" articles.

If Gabbard is still in a month from now I'll be surprised, her polling is almost sad

I don't think getting actual votes is part of her plan

Yeah the last one is clearly why he's not running. He's actually smart about these things, annoyingly.

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 5, 2019

otm

whoops wrong tweet

Bloomberg not running is bad for progressives & the left, imo. It would've gone nowhere, damaged him reputationally, amplified discourse about the influence of billionaires even further, and drawn votes away from Biden.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) March 5, 2019

Merkley would have been a nice Bernie surrogate, if there weren't already half a dozen contenders looking to ride Bernie's wave, including Bernie himself. No one needed another choice in that crowd.

xpost don't really buy that. how many votes would it really draw from biden? like... 12? 200? and so long as the president is donald trump it's not hard to have a conversation about the pernicious influence of money in politics. perhaps those critiques will even be focused on....... joe biden

yeah the last point on that list is the least interesting one

The Washington Post reports:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a longtime independent, signed a pledge Tuesday saying he would seek the presidency as a Democrat and govern as a Democrat if elected.

The move comes in response to a new rule from the Democratic National Committee that requires all candidates for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination to sign such a pledge — a change that some Sanders allies considered a swipe at the senator.