2020 Democratic presidential primary

A friend of mine likes to just compare him as Jonah on the new VEEP.

I think Beto is doing a great job where he is, ideally it would be best if he stayed there

Beto can barely ride his skateboard, anyways . Total poseur.

Nah Beto needs an important gig to suit his skills, like tour manager for the Meat Puppets

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

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lis Smith is not from Indiana, but her tactic is to get him as much media attention as possible, no matter the outlet:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/29/lis-smith-buttigieg-2020-president-campaign-manager-226756

Outstanding find! She’s still working with Gene Kelly from the beginning of Gotta Dance

Elizabeth Warren has pledged to vote for Bernie's #MedicareForAll bill.@BernieSanders has pledged to vote for Elizabeth's #reparations bill. https://t.co/PRokTOnyfh#ADOS #MFA #ProgressiveUnity

— Shawn Olson 🔥🌊🌎 (@OOOlson) May 2, 2019

aw

Harris, Booker, and Gillibrand also co-sponsored the Sanders Medicare for All bill

yeah this is a bigger deal for Sanders than Warren I think, given he's waffled on reparations numerous times

if your last name starts with B, please report to your local Dem party hq to pick up your presidential campaign starter pack

Ok

Props to Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Warren, Sanders for voting no but but but... why are Booker and Harris voting for a Trump judge from the Federalist Society less than a month after McConnell went nuclear?https://t.co/nz5e0kElWt

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) May 1, 2019

I only care about "tough" if it's applied where it counts.

Does whoever programmed that bot not realize that Brown isn't running?

i wonder how new frontrunner michael bennet voted??

can someone explain why a single dem would vote for a trump judicial nominee? (unless you're a Manchin and actually want a federalist-approved ghoul on the bench). like what in the actual fuck does that do for you?

George Stephanopoulous praises your bipartisan spirit.

gah i guess but who cares? like 97 or so unbearable dorks in DC/ NoVa?

I don’t get those votes.

In the dim past it might mean that you were burnishing your collegial credentials, doing a favor for a fellow senator, in the expectation they would return the favor at some future point. That train derailed, crashed, burned and killed everyone on board not long before Obama took the oath of office.

senate.gov says Booker actually didn't vote. that election alert thing is really weird.

eh? he's listed as a Yea here

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00088

oh i see that alert was motion to invoke cloture. I was looking here.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00091

this is bad and I am docking Kamala 1 add'l point for using "inferred" instead of "implied" in her otherwise impressive Barr grilling

haha, I definitely winced at that

BREAKING - WE JUST WON OUR CASE CHALLENGING OHIO'S GERRYMANDERED MAP - (longer analysis to follow!) @ACLU pic.twitter.com/P2B8BIR0Cl

— ACLU of Ohio (@acluohio) May 3, 2019

To the Roberts Five it goes!

not really relevant to presidential primaries tho

at this point I am just going to assume one in every three men I run into on the street is running for president

New: De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week https://t.co/y8zRAiNE4c

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 3, 2019

if you're a man and you're over 6'4" you're running for president whether you like it or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82wU5NfRfr4

jfc xps

https://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700007130033/0713000138-l.jpg

.@EWarren gets cheers and applause when calling for overturning Citizens United.

It’s the loudest, most consistent applause line I’ve heard at campaign events so far in the 2020 cycle.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 3, 2019

In Iowa today, @EWarren has faced voter questions about money in politics, guns, student debt, abortion, minimum wage, sustainable farming, and “whiteness and identity.”

There was one broad question on cyberattacks, but nobody’s asking about Trump, impeachment or Barr.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 3, 2019

Today I learned that John Hickenlooper and Jay Inslee are different people.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSug8ONGfEwennc7D-h_ob3MQDKVMB6juLGBVH_3WwQ9gb_DCzl3A https://gwbcenter.imgix.net/Exhibits_and_Events/Events/2018/Forum-On-Leadership/hickenlooper-headshot.jpg?w=600&h=600&q=65&fm=jpg

one of them is much bigger than the other

inslee is kinda ok, hickenlooper is p bad. but yes they could practically be fraternal twins

now run a photo of William Weld.

https://i.imgur.com/rJRUgv3g.jpg

https://www.thedailybeast.com/howard-schultz-has-largely-stopped-his-2020-presidential-prep-work

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz first declared that he was entertaining the idea of running for president, he was ubiquitous on the political scene, sitting for interviews with major outlets, appearing at buzzy conferences, and making various stops for a book tour across the country in which he’d persistently tease his White House ambitions.

But in the past two weeks, Schultz has largely disappeared, leaving the impression that the presidential campaign he was flirting with won’t actually come to fruition.

His aides say that’s not the case. Bill Burton, a senior Schultz adviser, said that Schultz was still considering a bid and remained committed to the timeframe he had offered for a formal decision, which should come sometime “in the late spring or early summer.”

wow almost as if he was really just promoting a book or something

Take this with a truckload of salt (ILX will at least be happy with the result). Bill James has been running Twitter polls the past few weeks that square off five candidates at a time against each other. He's started tabulating the results.

Methodology: http://www.billjamesonline.com/introduction_to_the_polling_system/
Latest daily tracking: http://www.billjamesonline.com/poll_results_5-8-2019/

almost as if he was really just promoting a book or something

inviting universal scorn and ridicule upon your poor judgment seems like a weird way to get people to buy your book, if all you are known for is being a CEO.

publicity is all that matters it seems

those polls look good. concern is the media pushing "Biden is now undeniably the front runner" narrative non stop even when things like this say no.

All these old clips of Bernie that were on the Daily Show last night are cracking me up this morning. Him asking kids about cocaine, telling them about bigotry...

xpost Which polls? The most recent ones I see have Biden in the 40s.

oh that one lol

Biden is clearly the frontrunner, and that is not really changed by twitter-experiments :)

I think warren will gain steam if people get to hear her pitch.