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

I just can’t take an article seriously with that opening paragraph

Of VP choices not yet mentioned, I'd also be happy if Sanders picked Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR-Dem) as his VP.

i see you are not familiar with michael harriot. xpost.

I think I’ve encountered his writing before but does he always do this awful fairy-tale shit? He doesn’t even spell dotard correctly.

She is intentional about highlighting the scourge of institutional white supremacy

i can think of one thing she's done that has highlighted the scourge of institutional white supremacy

lol

“Eat the Rich”
Our office in Flint, MI

America deserves better. pic.twitter.com/ar5jKPmIJs

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

“Vladimir Putin is willing to poison anyone who disagrees with him, but have you seen how that
guy looks without a shirt!! Mmm delish!” --- #BernieOnDespots

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

All the Warren staffing/blah blah blah stuff is very 2016 “Hillary is the most QUALIFIED candidate ever” because, uh, vague credentials.

Bernie has as much or more ‘executive’ experience than Warren. He’s been staffing Congressional offices for three decades, successful mayor for what, a decade?

what the fuck is that Bloomberg tweet

blue checkmark aside i am steadfast in my belief that @Mike2020 is a parody account

Either his consultants have just said fuck it or he took personal control after finding out normal people hate him.

milo is there anything you find disappointing about Bernie

Doesn’t cover his head in public or wear talit katan :/

(Nor do I tho)

Campaigning for a pro-life mayoral candidate in the Rockies, voting for the ‘94 Crime Bill, being incredibly old

Absolute state of this thread, these campaign staff are just taking the money and laughing, right? Even the “America deserves better”. Too good.

This originally said “American deserves better,” just to really underscore the half-assedness.

the mike2020 tweets are such pitch-perfect self-owns it’s incredible

A Buttigieg-supporting friend of mine asked "What's wrong with billionaires?" last night on FB and my reply was "eat em"

they taste terrible iirc

Amazing. I’m kind of boggling at the Putin tweet, especially as someone almost instantly replied with a picture of the two of them

IDGAF about credentials because I see no evidence that there are credentials for being the most powerful human being.

American does deserve better, I'm sure the rich are tough and stringy, not to mention that they're already demonstrably lacking in taste. Perhaps the rich could be used as an alternative fuel source, instead?

The rich would be plump like wagyu , you need to render out the fat to make them edible.

It depends if they’re rich people who live on greens or exercise or if they have a diet like Trump.

I assume that Trump tastes like a fistful of Alpo drizzled in Donkey Sauce.

OK I’m tapping out. Can we bring back iatee complaining about the bern please

Tomboto what is the read from the blue-oxford-shirt and khaki pants demographic

just in general

holy shit there's a bunch of those Bloomberg tweets

what idiots

Imagine the taste of a Sheldon Adelson steak.

lol, is someone worried about having skirted defamation law?

To be clear — all of these are satire — with the exception of the 60 Minutes clip from last night.

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

“Vladimir Putin is willing to poison anyone who disagrees with him, but have you seen how that
guy looks without a shirt!! Mmm delish!” --- #BernieOnDespots

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

the staffers are sabotaging his campaign from within

Tomboto what is the read from the blue-oxford-shirt and khaki pants demographic

you don't work at The Gap?

thread delivers

lol just guessin Tombot!

ugh. Not hard to read all the DNC/MSNBC etc handwringing about Bernie being deployed now to elicit this very specific outcome

Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a wide lead in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, according to a new survey from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling.

The poll shows Biden with 36 percent support in South Carolina, which holds its primary contest on Saturday. He’s trailed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 21 percent.

No other candidate received double-digit support in the survey. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) placed third with 8 percent support, while billionaire activist Tom Steyer and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg tied for fourth with 8 percent each.

The PPP poll is a welcome sign of momentum for Biden, who has struggled with worse-than-expected showing in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary and a distant second-place finish in the Nevada caucuses.

His campaign has long cast South Carolina, however, as a firewall for the former vice president; a state where his strong support among black voters will pay off and propel him into Super Tuesday when more than a dozen states hold their primaries.

Most recent polls have shown a tightening race between Biden and Sanders in South Carolina. A CBS News/YouGov survey released on Sunday showed the former vice president’s lead narrowing to just 5 points. And a Winthrop University poll released last week also showed a 5-point race between Biden and Sanders.

In fact, Biden hasn’t led the field by double digits in polling in South Carolina since an East Carolina University poll earlier this month. That poll, however, was conducted entirely before voting in the Democratic nominating contest actually began.

The PPP poll released Monday also shows Biden holding onto his wide support among black voters, who make up roughly 60 percent of the Democratic electorate in South Carolina. The former vice president received 50 percent support among African Americans in the poll, with Sanders in a distant second place at 21 percent.

Warren and Buttigieg registered only 2 percent support among African Americans in the poll, while Klobuchar came in with 1 percent support.

The PPP poll surveyed 866 likely South Carolina Democratic primary voters from Feb. 23-24. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

If Sanders can't win in the South he's screwed/this is going to get very ugly

OMG, not only are there a host of those 'satirical' tweets on the Bloomberg account today but also a host of documentary evidence on the Bloomberg headquarters being vandalized across the country, almost as if they're offering suggestions on how best to gussy up the one in your town.

I work in an open office full of pen testers and digital forensics specialists. I’m not asking how anybody is voting

I made a really good “pen 15 testing” joke online once

I don't think there's been any expectation of Bernie winning SC? As with Nevada, the horse race story is going to be the margin of victory.

that PPP poll for SC could be an outlier. other recent polls have put biden's margin over sanders at more like +4 to +5

i actually think bernie has a good chance of winning SC. biden used to have a huge margin there, and other than the PPP poll from earlier today, recent polling has shown it tightening up.

Shakey, why is it a surprise? I expected Sanders to lose in SoCal. And Clyburn's going to endorse Biden.

is he, though? i notice he's conspicuously chosen the day after the debate (wednesday) to make his announcement

Bernie would do just fine in the South

He signaled several times he would, and every reporter has said he would; I tend to believe the reporters.

I wonder if that’ll change debate strategy for the other candidates,I figured everyone would be going at Bernie but Biden is probably easier to siphon support from.