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

Do all these people dropping out improve the case for Warren at all or is she still toast?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, March 2, 2020 12:50 PM (five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Bernie is the only person whose departure from the race could improve the case for Warren.

I mean, everyone benefits from a smaller field, but I don't think she stands to gain significant ground.

Going to be loads of pressure on Warren to go now, right? I mean, more than before.

I just have not seen any realistic path to victory for her.

She's still picking up good endorsements and just dropped another plan today (farmworkers and food chain workers). I hope she sticks around til the end.

We'll see if she loses Mass. or not.

Neither Biden nor Sanders really needs her to drop out, I don't think, so I don't think their campaigns would do her the indignity of dangling inducements in front of her? xxp

I don't know what she "is" now: a female alternative to Sanders without a heart condition and believes in the system or a Not Biden? She's in an interzone.

the Mama Plan Interzone

Warren’s strategy, laid out in conversations with more than a half-dozen of her aides and close allies, relies largely on outlasting several of her less well-financed rivals and trying to collect their supporters when they drop out. One aide told POLITICO that the campaign thinks multiple candidates will withdraw in the next seven to 10 days, shaking up the race.

the plan begins

what kind of chess is this

collect all five! from Hasbro

if she picked up ALL of Pete's and Amy's supporters she'd be a point or two ahead of Sanders

I wonder if she thought she might get her endorsement.

Surely not.

until i saw DJP was the poster i interpreted "singing acquaintance" as "an acquaintance, but they sing at all times instead of talking." like the acquaintance equivalent of a singing telegram.

Pete & Amy both endorsing Biden, btw

seems like a bad weekend for Bernie but I guess it'll be clearer tomorrow

Oh no the coveted Klobuchar endorsement, bye bye Bernie

Maybe Pete and Amy dropping out is all part of Warren's......... plan

literally every conversation about this rn is a fuckin nightmare

wait for tuesday you assholes (not specifically directed at you assholes)

Brad otm

Harry Reid endorses Biden

Trying to keep in mind that when this is down to sanders vs Biden, the enthusiasm gap will be unmistakable

I don't think that's true actually

but let's find out!

brad p much always otm

At least when it’s Bernie vs Biden nobody can resort to accusations of sexism when ppl start arguing that Biden would lose to Trump (how’s that for an enthusiasm gap)

Bidenthusiasm

srsly this shows why the establishment Dems need to die fast

Wasn't Sanders projected to win in a majority of states by a decent margin tomorrow (and then possibly in several others by a slightly slimmer margin)? With Buttigieg and Klobuchar projected to not really do a whole lot? I mean, I guess the double drop-out could push it to Biden but it hardly seems like a sure thing.

Y'know, I legitimately like Warren, and I can bring myself to vote with varying degrees of irritation for just about anybody on the D side. But I find it depressing and aggravating that there's no serious contender left who was born later than 1949.

There never was one.

thank the Clintons and Obama

their philosophy wore out before this generation of the D "mainstream" did

Buttigieg, Warren, and Biden prep for Super Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/e7jlnZzWcn

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) March 2, 2020

ok

There never was one.

I guess. Still seems pretty grim to me that what started as a nominally diverse field is down to three white guys who are OVER 75, and a 70-year-old white lady who's a longshot at best. I mean, that's kind of pathetic.

I blame Gen X.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/tulsi-gabbards-nine-supporters-urge-her-to-drop-out-of-race

Don't ever post Borowitz here again.

I blame Gen X.

We blame ourselves too. We always have. It's one of the things we're best at.

xposts

if sanders can't maintain a clear enthusiasm gap over biden's supporters, then something has gone terribly wrong

he's such an Obama-era non-funny man, loved, I suspect, by the same over-50 grad school Warren types

xpost lol, I genuinely misread that as 'Biden's suppositories'

I don't know how you can say that, Alfred, the link clearly includes the word 'humor'.

their philosophy wore out before this generation of the D "mainstream" did

and it seems to me you lived your life like a Clinton in the wind

i'd say both biden and sanders are much funnier than andy borowitz

biden's suppositories, too

a borowitz report link on ilx, now i've seen everything

time to die

been ready since January '17

/humor

automatic fp for Borowitz imo