Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

great, the MSM (including NPR) will try to make Klobuchar happen yet again

Klobufetch

Bernie's veep pick would be

1) not a prez candidate from this year

2) someone not white, pref a woman

Warren? Two white lefties [sic] from New England? Are you crazy?

This is going to get to Bernie vs the Mayors isn't it

I hope Sanders chooses well if he’s the nominee, not sure who that would be

like pence was a shitty gov of indiana, biden was a credit card company stooge, you pick someone who affirms your campaign's central message. sanders has some less than great immigration stances in his past, might be good to have someone for whom immigration is a major issue next to you.

is there a popular Democratic woman governor under sixty from a state outside the northeast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown

maybe?

sure sign her up

amy klobuchar speech "...the people in the middle..." lol

a name i've seen thrown around a bunch is tammy baldwin which makes a lot of sense. popular senator with a strong progressive record who supports his signature policy and is from a key swing state. also a woman, and gay for extra minority rep, not that sanders really needs help there particularly.

she'd be good too

I do like her, from what little I know

Tammy Duckworth hasn't made a lot of news since she got elected but... war hero and stuff

I like her too

So many younger people who are good options, let's leave Warren in the Senate since a Republican would get appointed for six or nine months or whatever.

I was about to self-flagellate with some election coverage but the Westminster Dog Show is on so I'm voting for the Airedale

Baldwin is terrific but I believe she has little interest in being President which makes me think she has no real reason to want to be Vice President. Plus, Senate vacancies in Wisconsin are filled by special election and there is zero reason to feel confident D's would hold that seat. It is also hard for me to imagine which Wisconsin voters would be moved from not-Sanders to Sanders via the presence of Tammy Baldwin.

Buttigieg is catching up to Sanders.

We've had veeptalk about Abrams but the consensus seems to have been that she has other things to do than that

looks like a giant walrus man has thrown his blubber behind bloomberg

But there is one candidate on the Democratic side who not only has a track record of supporting all those issues but also has the resources to build a machine big enough to take on the Trump machine.

This candidate also has the toughness to take on Trump, because while Trump was pretending to be a C.E.O. on the show “The Apprentice,” this candidate was actually building one of the most admired global companies as a real C.E.O.

This candidate is not cuddly, he is not always politically correct and he will not always tell you what you want to hear — or try to outbid you on how many free services he’ll give away. He’s made mistakes, especially around stop-and-frisk policing in New York City, which disproportionately targeted black and brown men and for which he recently apologized.

His mistakes, though, have to be weighed against a record of courageously speaking out and devoting enormous personal resources to virtually every progressive cause — gun control, abortion rights, climate change, Planned Parenthood, education reform for predominantly minority schools, affordable housing, income inequality and tax reform. And he has vowed as president to focus on building black wealth, not just ending poverty.

And this candidate knows how to get stuff done — he can fight this fire at the scale of the fire. His team has for years used social networks to promote progressive issues to centrist and conservative audiences. He won’t cede the internet/Facebook/Twitter battlefield to Trump’s team, who are killers in that space.

And this candidate is now rising steadily in the polls. This candidate is Michael Bloomberg. This candidate has Trump very worried.

https://i.imgur.com/1LoRO9j.png

(Disclosure: Bloomberg Philanthropies has donated to Planet Word, the museum my wife is building in Washington, to promote reading and literacy.)

Buttigieg is catching up to Sanders.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 9:02 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i havent been watching cable abt it, what parts of the state are still counting?

Some of the suburban-ish southern areas and a couple of the college towns

*drake "no" face* suburbs?
*drake "yes" face* college towns

yeah this is getting way too close and anything other than Bernie beating him by 5% is going to be touted as a Pete "win"

One thing I love about Warren is she gives no signs that she’ll spend even a minute licking her wounds if she loses before getting right back into the thick of things again

She's speaking to loser Claire McCaskill without a shred of smugness.

at this point I am praying she endorses bernie at least, if only because otherwise the groundhog will predict 5000 more years of Discourse

We won’t be free of discourse ever again.

according to WP Sanders, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar each have 6 delegates so far out of 24

Waiting for Durham still (where UNH is)

Hanover (Dartmouth) went for Buttigieg

ivies gotta stick together

I really can't behind, ever, calling any candidate by their first name.

so weird hearing grown men and women referring to "Amy" and "Mayor Pete" and "Elizabeth.

my close personal friends

just wait for

https://media.nbcdfw.com/2019/09/mike-bloomberg-resized.jpg

Ames, Petey, Stinky Joe, Lizzo, Mr. Sanders

lol

out there gettin JUICED

Biden‘s bid to be the Inevitability Candidate seems to have faltered, anything other than beating Bg soundly and Sanders acceptably in S.C. presumably fatal, right?

I assume both Biden and Warren will keep campaigning through Super Tuesday regardless of the rest of February.

Who the fuck is voting for Pete? I don't live there now, but my moderate parents in NH split between Warren and Klobuchar. My brother voted for Sanders. I have never met or spoken to a gung-ho Buttigieg supporter. I know the tides turn quickly but who are these people?

cat people

NBC projects Sanders the winner.

cat people

― Dan I., Tuesday, February 11, 2020

been so long imo

I assume both Biden and Warren will keep campaigning through Super Tuesday regardless of the rest of February.

Seems like a sound assumption. At this stage only two weird small states have contributed their votes, so even if the narrative goes against you, you can still pin your hopes on the many hundreds of delegates yet to be distributed, which dwarf the numbers from Iowa, NH, and NV.

SC is where the narrative really gels into something much solider and it's nearly impossible to recover if you're not still in the top three. Since Super Tuesday comes just a couple of days after SC, you don't pull out until after Super Tuesday, regardless.

nah, pete is an extreme dog person

(so is warren but in a different way)

Who the fuck is voting for Pete? I don't live there now, but my moderate parents in NH split between Warren and Klobuchar. My brother voted for Sanders. I have never met or spoken to a gung-ho Buttigieg supporter. I know the tides turn quickly but who are these people?

― thewufs, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:05 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the one pete fan i know is a v sweet person whom i like a lot, i dont remember him being suuuuper into politics before buti remember him being reliably liberal. was in TFA with me, then started working at google. took a sabbatical to volunteer on the campaign.

anyway there must be like 1 million people in that exact demographic that i just described.