2020 Democratic presidential primary

more like jacob LOL amirite, etc.

Trump retweets him

It makes sense for two guys in the ‘pay people money to lie about who they did or did not have sex with’ business to be friends and colleagues

he's such a rascal that trump

He’s a downright fartknocker

always doing crazy stuff. trolling millennials. i have noticed.

like - and pls correct me if i'm out of line here - if there was some leftwing lunatic with a fairly sizeable (pre-ban) following trying to frame the special counsel investigating a sitting Democratic president or a somewhat high profile GOP candidate... it would be plastered all over cable news like 94/7? it would precipitate some Very Concerned op eds in legacy media outlets? or nah?

Trump retweets him

hahah FUCK i missed that

but i guess both sides, y'know

Points for Warren: https://m.chron.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/Elizabeth-Warren-celebrates-husband-s-birthday-at-13804198.php?cmpi

the current vibe is "no one should tear down any candidate"

I actually heard "politics ain't beanbag" on NPR last weekend, a concept which apparently no rank-and-file Dems under 50 are acquainted with.

Man, ol' beanbag talked nothing but politics on here, before he was SB'd.

Stacey Abrams has decided against running for Senate from Georgia, a Democrat with knowledge tells CNN, and she met with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schemer today to inform him of her plan.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) April 30, 2019

!@#%!@#%

Running is damned hard work and she just went through it, so it is easy to understand her reluctance. But if she ran, she'd get some of my money.

some freudian spelling there

Biden's support among black women remains strong:

Biden has maintained his position as the front-runner throughout Morning Consult’s tracking of the nascent race. He’s led the pack in every Morning Consult survey of 2019, and unlike nearly all of his rivals — except for Sanders — his increase in support has not dovetailed with a rise in name recognition. As a fixture in American politics for the past several decades, the former senator is universally well known. Nine in 10 likely Democratic voters have opinions about Biden, and they’re mostly positive: 76 percent view him favorably, while 14 percent view him unfavorably.

Biden’s popularity has stayed steady, even amid a string of unflattering news stories in recent months, including his physical contact with women and a resurfaced debate over his handling of the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings involving Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Any concerns that those stories may dampen his support with women and black women is not yet borne out by the data. If anything, Biden’s advantage over the field relies heavily on edges with those groups: Among women overall, Biden jumped 8 points in the last week, to 38 percent — driven by a 7-point bump with white women (to 36 percent) and a 10-point jump with black women, to 47 percent.

i still maintain his bse of support is softer than bernie's and once the negative ads start in early states he's gonna lose some support with women

i assume you mean biden's bse in the sense of bovine spongiform encephalitis, in which case otm

this clown sure loves right-wing talking points huh

"So if Bernie Sanders wants to get involved in a conversation about whether Dylann Roof & the marathon bomber should have the right to vote, my focus is liberating black & brown people & low-income people from prison.." @CoryBooker rejects Sanders idea https://t.co/w1xlpbKsMb

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) April 30, 2019

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/30/18522680/beto-orourke-2020-climate-change-proposal

good

That photo tho...

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/SA9jDdiwDPONG1Qoa-5nBAnazdw=/0x0:960x736/1820x1213/filters:focal(326x273:478x425):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63694908/Screen_Shot_2019_04_29_at_6.28.05_PM.0.jpg

Over/Under on the woman on the left taking a BetoButt pic?

nice to see Beto finally putting some policies forward. Time for Buttigieg (and...everyone else who hasn't, I guess. like hickenlooper hahahaha. ha.)

Over/Under on the woman on the left taking a BetoButt pic?

Maybe she’s in the market for a spackler

I think you guys have little to no understanding of black people

Is that in re: Abrams not running? or the Biden support Alfred posted? or...?

It was more about the Booker criticism and the baffled bemusement that one of the major constituencies that drives the Democratic party would support one of the biggest names within the Democratic party.

once joe figures out what the real caption is, this anecdote is going to be unstoppable

At both rallies today, Biden has (at length) described a cartoon hanging in his office, with a robber with a bag of money saying "How was I supposed to know he was a job creator?"

Both time the joke has kind of fallen flat, and Biden is off on the punchline. pic.twitter.com/97nR98yW8a

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 1, 2019

so Warren has risen in two of the polls released today.

added her and Ilhan to my monthly giving plan today

curious what the enlightened take on that booker quote is, because it came off like the craven pandering that more or less characterizes booker’s political career

lol the quinnipac poll shows sanders taking a huge hit. biden 38, warren 12, sanders 11, buttigieg 10 (jesus), harris 8

Mayo Pete (I forget where I saw that, but it made me laugh) found another rake to step on...

We asked all of the 2020 candidates about vaccines.

A spokesperson for Mayor Pete Buttigieg says Buttigieg supports "personal/religious exemptions if states can maintain local herd immunity and there is no public health crisis” https://t.co/o1tVmFb5UW pic.twitter.com/ahWJq0hkhL

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 1, 2019

ugh

what about the personal choice to never, ever wash your hands, though?

Sen. Gillibrand has unveiled a plan to give every voter up to $600 in what she calls "Democracy Dollars" that they can donate to federal candidates for office. https://t.co/JP1rc2DDip

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 1, 2019

"democracy dollars" is some "written out of an early draft of Robocop for being too on-the-nose" shit

She has a plan - and it sucks

Please don't give the common folk $600 to give to political candidates. I'm not even sure if they all should even be able to vote anymore.

Seattle has Democracy Vouchers for city elections! $100 per voter per cycle.

many xps but i'm disappointed that nobody made the so not gonna happen joke with the beto rainbow (rainbeto?) pic

It seems notable (and not good!) that Democratic voters are (so far) defining "electability" so narrowly that Kamala Harris of all people doesn't have it. https://t.co/ZELW0CLL7r

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) May 1, 2019

yup

AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he's not a credible head of federal law enforcement. He should resign—and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 1, 2019

good post

Harris is so charismatic that she actually does look like the "came out of central casting" for a future president.

How many have officially called for his resignation now? Van Hollen, Hirono, Warren? It should be unanimous (on the democratic side, at least). I don’t know how one could watch this and conclude that he’s acting in good faith

I know she's serious cuz she used an em dash.

Sorry, relevant to the warren tweet but not a good post for this thread

Love an em dash

How is Beto sticking his ass out in that pic and you still don't even need a protractor.

That “electability” criterion Pareene mentions was perfectly crystallized in Alexandra Petri’s tongue-in-cheek column, and I think it is very much the reason Biden had such strong numbers with women, particularly black women, coming right out of the gate. Losing again and seeing Trump re-elected is too terrible a fate to contemplate.

If I can do my own pundit’s anecdotal reconnaissance for a moment, a significant population of “reg’lar folks” who really hate Trump are worried that if the Dems run too left or too brown or too ladylike then they could lose again and we’ll all be extra doomed.