2020 Democratic presidential primary

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.

I dunno, Harris seems a bit like 2016 Rubio--low poll numbers, but constant mentions as a frontrunner

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5gfkuLX4AA8l_Z.jpg:small

same

normcore takeover

The Pareene article is pretty good, but Morbz otm that in May 2019 we have a moral imperative to respond to "Judging by all available polling, though" with a jerk-off motion.

I swear Major Pete reminds me of somebody new every day.

https://i.imgur.com/VxC5X4A.jpg

Good showing from Harris and Klobuchar during the Barr ass-show.

Pete has a Mr. Bean vibe in some photos

And a Brad Stevens vibe in others

I feel bad that he posed like that. It's not as bad as the Paul Ryan pics but seriously, do these guys not have handlers?

He probably does have a handler and that handler is also from Indiana. Paul Ryan’s handlers were probably also from Wisconsin or wherever the fuck he was from. We’ve all seen a regional travel magazine before

I don't see why Pareene dismisses the hypothesis that the people who are saying they'll vote for Joe Biden are saying that because ... they like Joe Biden and think he would be a good President

It's crazy that all the women candidates take pics of precarious intelligence, capableness and non-threatening stature and all the men are still vying for the cover of Mistakenly Handsome and Horny.

blame RFK

Harris did quite well today interrogating Barr; she got him to admit he hadn't read the damn report before writing the March memo!

(NB: not an endorsement for prez, only that she's tough)

she really thrives in that setting and for this reason think she'd be the most trouble for Trump in so-called "debates"

but yeah no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvcj_VuywA