2020 Democratic presidential primary

that’s no way to talk about bernie ffs

99% of everything people say about politics on twitter doesn't matter

you're off by a percentage point there

The revered 2%

if that's the direction you want to go in

Has Biden even said one goddamn thing worth a shit in the last week? Why is he a target for Trump tweets?

who cares, let him drain the orange ape's aggression, maybe it will be worn out and wasted by the time someone other than biden gets the nomination (yeah I know that won't happen but I can pretend)

he gave a speech today in Iowa that got under Trump's skin: "his low energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don't believe fooled anyone"

only fooled the new york times

yes lol

On Warren's formidable Nevada campaign machinery:

Kamala Harris hired a dream team of operatives. Joe Biden has solid establishment support. Bernie Sanders heads a volunteer army. And Julián Castro is seen as a “sleeper.”

But of the two dozen Democrats running for president, none matches Elizabeth Warren when it comes to the size of her campaign operation, the crowds at her rallies and the buzz among activists and operatives in Nevada.

“Elizabeth Warren just has a gigantic campaign,” said Laura Martin, executive director of the social justice organization Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. “There are counties all over rural areas where some campaigns are just doing tours, but she has staff there. And that was a strategy President Obama had in 2008 when he won Nevada.”

Another Democratic operative put it more bluntly: “Warren has built a monster.”

Among 17 Democratic strategists, activists and experts interviewed by POLITICO for this story, Warren’s campaign was mentioned most often as the most impressive of the field, followed by Harris'.

That's encouraging. Turnout is what's going to win this.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/elizabeth-warren-teacher-presidential-candidate.html

really enjoyed this long piece on warren

yeah, that was excellent.

can you feel the Joementum

.@JoeBiden was asked again at the Iowa State Fair if he thinks Trump is a white supremacist, he responded: "Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am...

— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) August 8, 2019

good answer, Mr Vice President

"Sir, do you have the time?"
"Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am..."

I'm actually with Biden on this one. At this point Trump's racism and white supremacist mindset is established; reporters just want every Democratic candidate to say the magic words.

but will he say the words "Islamic Terrorism"

Do you have the time
to listen to me whine

Meanwhile:

Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist. I said yes.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2019

Gee, all he's ever done was make dozens or hundreds of disparaging public remarks about people of color, their criminal dispositions and their shithole countries, and launch his political career by endlessly asserting that the first black president was a native Kenyan who occupied his office illegally, while pointedly courting the approval of avowed white racists.

hahaha fuck you Joe Biden

ie a hard question for Joe Biden, eulogist for Strom Thurmond

The passive voice on politico tweets is weird - "Today I was asked" "Today I announced"

Liz, you can just tweet "Fuck Donald Trump, he's a white supremacist" and embed the YG song.

oh my fucking god

oe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”

i thought he liked to live dangerously

Joe Biden slip-up in Iowa tonight.

"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

Yikes...have fun mitigating that one. pic.twitter.com/m2VxZbnFHF

— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) August 9, 2019

imagine if any other candidate said this

Is it me or does Joe look like he's aged years just since campaigning started?

tbf he is old af and has been doing things to mitigate his oldness for a while (hair plugs, teeth, etc.)

that only mitigates his appearance and doesn't touch his oldness. after 60 aging accelerates as you enter each new decade. believe me, I know.

Biden referred to Theresa May as “Margaret Thatcher” tonight, the second time he’s done that since May.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 9, 2019

Bernie has fire in the belly

Biden has bile

Cool of Biden to pick up the Doddering Well-Meaning Racist mantle

Kindly Racist Grandpa

I know, I know, it's serious

lol

haaaaaa

Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that “those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” https://t.co/QiWHMCI8uo

— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) August 10, 2019

he needs to quit the fuckin race man

Ed Kilgore explains how it's a mistake to dismiss Warren's chances:

In this phase of the 2020 Democratic presidential contest, there are a number of interesting story lines for political observers: the huge candidate field that keeps resisting its “winnowing,” the apparent indestructibility of front-runner Joe Biden, the constant fears about electability and Trump’s efforts to paint the Donkey Party as a bunch of socialists who hate America and love open borders, and the intermittently sharp elbows the candidates are displaying toward each other.

But the development that currently demands attention is the emergence of Senator Elizabeth Warren as something other than the candidate of policy wonks, dismissed as nonviable even among people who think she’d make an outstanding president. Her strong debate performances, a knack for organizing (based on her outstanding retail political skills), and the misfortunes affecting some of her rivals have combined to give her the clear path to the Democratic nomination that she really did not have in the early going.

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

same people who aren't dismissing biden lol?

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

― Simon H., Saturday, August 10, 2019

Pretty sure he means the Dem leadership, which, ugh.

I think they'll come around

Slipknot appears to be doing its sound check while Cory Booker is giving his speech right nearby at the Iowa State Fair soapbox.

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) August 10, 2019

Hey there, @ewarren! pic.twitter.com/0rcL3sV9Js

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2019

PLUR

Dem leaders want those billionaires, baby

If Corey Booker hired a guitarist to crank out floor-punching riffs behind him during his speeches, he'd be up ten points in the polls inside a week.

As @CoreyBooker spoke about war and death at the #IowaStateFair, you can hear @slipknot’s sound check in the background and it’s hilariously metal. pic.twitter.com/LWAFSG2NuV

— Ryan Smith (@RyanSmithWriter) August 10, 2019

corey booker + slipknot = tom morello