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

xpost yep. she may be the best candidate that we will see in our lifetime (maybe hyperbole but still feeling it) it's very disappointing.

― Yerac, Thursday, March 5, 2020 11:23 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

AOC maybe, though by the time she's eligible the right-wing blob will have pumped nearly a decade of demonizing into their minions' brains.

even now, i still believe that bernie is going to win. i'm waiting for my vote by mail ballot to arrive, and i can't wait to actually register my vote in a case where it actually matters

xp: My view, as in 2016: the revolution needs a better figurehead. AOC will be much more potent than Bernie.

uncomfortable open secret: there are actually zero democratic politicians between the ages of 40 and 65

wish her plan to get rid of the filibuster had some influence

Schumer has floated it, whether the whole Dem Senate caucus goes along w it is a different question

i suppose that generation got together in an enchanted mystery room several decades ago and put all of their combined powers into obama. everyone else walked out of the room with jack squat

xp

xp: Warren could have dominated the middle lane. I think her major mistake was a nuanced embrace of M4A rather than public option in November. She was never going to peel off voters from Sander's messianism. And it cost her half her support to Buttigieg and Klobuchar.

zero democratic politicians between the ages of 40 and 65

Gen X couldn't be bothered

Warren is dropping out today and will alert staff shortly, confirming @ShaneGoldmacher @AsteadWesley scoop. Someone w/ the campaign says she is contemplating not endorsing, endorsing Bernie, or even endorsing Biden.

— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) March 5, 2020

Why not do them all?

Personally can't wait for a chance to vote for AOC.

Her supporters are a coalition of moderates drawn by personal qualities and specific policies (me), progressives who prefer her to Sanders, and feminists. She should call upon them and her delegates to vote their conscience.

xpost I like AOC a lot but I worry about how well she could translate to the non-bubble demo. I'm a resident of Queens and I am often taken aback that a lot of people in Queens and the Bronx (poc) don't like her.

So my head's still spinning from the past...christ, not even a week, but are we at this point down to Biden vs. Sanders...vs. Gabbard? Whu?

Warren could have dominated the middle lane. I think her major mistake was a nuanced embrace of M4A rather than public option in November.

I've noticed Liz Lads can't acknowledge a fuckup without ultimately blaming it on voters

xxpost I think if these primaries and elections demonstrate anything it's that a lot of people don't like a lot of people.

Warren could have dominated the middle lane.

Except these are the people who abandoned her en masse.

Tulsi's continuing candidacy is a bit like someone forgetting to cancel a Netflix membership after they've lost internet access

if/when democratic voters give biden the nomination over bernie, i fully plan on ultimately blaming it on them

Personally can't wait for a chance to vote for AOC.

I heart AOC but there is absolutely no evidence she could perform at a national level (or even wants to)

i am even worried she won't keep her seat next election.

I don't want her going anywhere.

i figure tulsi is still in it to rake in donations.

or launder money. whatevs.

these are the people who abandoned her en masse

Assuming she keeps her seat I hope she keeps up with the PAC and expanding the # of leftist reps for a good long time

I think one way or another AOC *is* performing at a national level.

At this particular moment AOC is kinda my dream prez candidate which, iirc, means that she has no shot of ever becoming president.

my friend's pastor is trying to run against her next election. I am like good luck throwing that $ away and taking your time.

they won't get pastor

it's a large, conservative for NY/religious hispanic community in the bronx.

i'd be more than happy to settle for this then:

I truly yearn for this https://t.co/bfDWHJjbnR

— Erin 😷 Ryan (@morninggloria) March 5, 2020

oh, i see you made joke. xpost

If she ever steps down from her role as AFL-CIO leader I would fuckin kill for Sara Nelson to enter politics

electoral politics that is

I just wanna see AOC keep killing it in congress forever, that and her as Mayor of NYC

wld also enjoy her mopping the floor w schumer

women can have it all

Warren could have dominated the middle lane. I think her major mistake was a nuanced embrace of M4A rather than public option in November.
I've noticed Liz Lads can't acknowledge a fuckup without ultimately blaming it on voters

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:48 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of the main reasons I decided not to vote for her was her refusal to nuke Biden regarding the bankruptcy bill. It's literally why she got into politics(tm) and she didn't say a fucking thing about it in the debates. Assume its because she didn't want to rock the establishment boat but it was her prime opportunity to distinguish herself and she didn't do it.

Prediction: Bern stans will still blame Warren for not dropping out sooner

they've never been known to hold grudges

Especially against women

As long as dems keep sniping at one another through November, I'm happy.

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Prediction: Bern stans will still blame Warren for not dropping out sooner

uncomfortable open secret: there are actually zero democratic politicians between the ages of 40 and 65

Ro Khanna! tho prob not figurehead type but then who knows

tbh folks can't blame klobucher and pete for their alleged strategic move of dropping out/endorsing Biden, and then yell at warren for not doing the same thing for Bernie in a timely manner. i mean they *can* but idk.

Warren's Supporters Second Choice:

Sanders 40%
Biden 16%@MorningConsult Poll 2/23-27 https://t.co/DDbtklur1P

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) March 5, 2020

idgi where there's the other 44%

the Tulsi comeback begins now

undecided obv - xp

tbh folks can't blame klobucher and pete for their alleged strategic move of dropping out/endorsing Biden, and then yell at warren for not doing the same thing for Bernie in a timely manner.

Klobuchar and Pete dropping out was a move in service of an awful goal - people wanted Warren to drop out in service of a not-awful goal. These are not contradictory ideas.