2020 Democratic presidential primary

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already have it, they still outfoxed me :(

rude

It's so weird to me how social media is like sports: it attracts fans whose relentlessness repels me. "Weird" because I don't understand defending anyone or anything all day, vehemently. I grew up with people throwing bullshit stats about the Dolphins or whatever. They should've been shunned and ridiculed, yet they were the majority.

I shouldn't say "weird." "Inevitable" is closer.

politics is sports for the genetically damned

brb getting that tattooed on my deplorables

put outline.com before a URL (including http:) to bypass paywalls

sports are cool

for gays and women

she's got a plan to excuse this

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-defends-_n_5733164

Thread:

This new poll from Stanley Greenberg's Democracy Corps has a lot of good news for Elizabeth Warren: https://t.co/6xUPsSIFwV

First, if the election were held today, she'd beat Trump by 7 points. Biden would win by 8 points and Bernie would win by 5 points.

— Kathleen Geier 🌹 (@Kathy__Gee) September 28, 2019

fuck let's hold the election today

wait until a third organ rejects Biden's skull

but trump is winning all the polls

is what i heard

New: "It sucks, actually. Impeachment’s gonna kill anyone who’s not a senator or in the top five. We’re fucked."

Does impeachment mean the end of the road for much of the 2020 field? https://t.co/l63GFVYAmg

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 28, 2019

So impeachment will narrow the field down to like 7 people? How on earth will we survive?

What a disaster for the historic Yang campaign!

One can hope.

This deeply troubling question from Gabriel Debenedetti about things that have not happened, but could maybe possibly happen, leaves me deeply troubled. Impeachment will certainly suck the air out of all other politics, but how the politics fall out of that is anyone's guess. imo this hot take is just the usual stirring the pot, trying to get attention in a crowded media market.

"she's got a plan to excuse this

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-defends-_n_5733164";

this is five years old.

has her position changed

that article has bernie being criticized for taking the same position, if I'm reading it right

there's not a lot of daylight between their answers to the I/P question in the CFR thing someone linked earlier imo...warren has more details, I suppose bernie very vaguely implies he would stop military aid to Israel:

"My administration would also be willing to bring real pressure to bear on both sides, including conditioning military aid, to create consequences for moves that undermine the chances for peace."

https://www.cfr.org/article/bernie-sanders

warren was videoed telling a paletinian activist that she was against the occupation. not sure where that is but I did see it a few months ago.

is this the first time a candidate has accentuated their messaging to suggest Trump might not be around in 2020

We're going to defeat Donald Trump, or Mike Pence, or whomever else the Republicans put up.

But we need your help to win. Chip in now: https://t.co/NiKvZVt33c pic.twitter.com/EvptzODbz0

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 29, 2019

his people used the right objective pronoun!

whomst everelse

Red Sharpie...nice.

his people used the right objective pronoun!

objectivists love him

New CNN South Carolina Poll: Biden leads among black voters

Black White

Biden 45% 29%
Warren 4% 28%
Sanders 13% 8%
Buttigieg 0% 8%
Harris 6% 1%
Steyer 5% 2%
https://t.co/MoNYaacY3t

— David P Gelles (@gelles) September 29, 2019

is 1% within the margin of error?

oops sorry that formatting messed me up

mainly posted cause that is one depressing Biden stranglehold and also to lol @ Pete

It's not depressing; it's reality, and I get it. It's still only September. Barack Obama was nuthin' until Iowa.

They also did Nevada

#NEW Nevada Democratic Primary:

Sanders 22%
Biden 22%
Warren 18%
Harris 5%
Buttigieg 4%
Steyer 4%
Yang 3%
Booker 2%@CNN Poll

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) September 29, 2019

all the early states save SC show biden's lead down to margin of error or gone entirely.

also lol who are these would-be steyer voters??

what this tells me is that the more people pay attention to the election, the less likely they are to want biden as the nominee

The results of Iowa and NH are going to alter the standings in subsequent states, perhaps enormously.

Yep.

it def feels like warren's the only one actually gaining new people. bernie and buttigieg have been steady, biden and harris have fallen. harris' fall has really surprised me.

NH is interesting cuz Warren and Sanders are both senators in neighboring states

The bump Harris got from the first debate was temporary, possibly because she had to walk a few of her winning positions back. I think the lack of real momentum caused many of her supporters who are concerned about "electability" to hop back over to Biden and Warren.

yeah, "electability" (and the lack thereof) becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that way.

Brain genius moves

BREAKING — The Biden campaign has written a letter to top executives and hosts at major news networks demanding that they stop booking Giuliani. https://t.co/aLX082Snuf

With @maxwelltani

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 29, 2019

I support continued booking of Giuliani AND continued pressure from the Biden campaign to stop booking Giuliani. The first makes Trump look worse, the second makes Biden look worse. Those are both good things.

I'm not sure how this makes Biden look particularly bad. Giuliani certainly is spreading a false narrative about Biden, using the enormous megaphone provided to him by those news networks. By lending him that platform when it is clear that he is lying, they are complicit in spreading that false narrative, even if they verbally challenge his version of events. Biden has a legit beef imo.

yeah i agree