2020 campaign
"A bit like the AOC endorsement of Bernie..."
Interesting. A bit like the AOC endorsement of Bernie, it comes at a time when Warren was starting to be written off / taken for granted despite not …
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2020 campaign
"I was aware of the inevitable humiliation, the inevitable mockery, the inevitable mean-spiritedness, the inevitable bad pictures."
"I’m not at a point in my life or my career where I’m looking for a way to make a fool of myself... Nothing is as it was. I already work in anot…
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2020 campaign
The Democratic candidates have been divided up into 2 groups, for debates on successive nights.
NBC has announced. June 26th: ... Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN),…
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2020 campaign
Trump is trying to figure out who's going to run against him in 2020.
It's really hard to figure out. * Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, asked consultants to scour the backgrounds of four outspoken Democrats …
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2020 campaign
"Put your money on someone who energizes and excites you rather than someone who appeals to a voter in a diner in rural Michigan who you invited in your head."
Said Adam Jentleson, "a Democratic strategist working for a group focused on suing Mr. Trump," quoted in the last line of a NYT article tit…
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2020 campaign
Marianne Williamson is polling higher than Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Jay Inslee...
I say out loud (as I read about a new poll of registered voters in New Hampshire). The response from Meade was singing: "Hey, Marianne, what…
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2020 campaign
Do you think Trump will be better off not having to run against a woman this time?
That's my first question, upon reading "BUCHANAN: Could be down to 3 white guys by end of month..." ( at Drudge ). The link goes to a c…
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2020 campaign
Making Beto go away.
They know they have to do it. Here's what the early-stage ousting looks like on Drudge: Reading the links (in order): 1. "MEDIA TURNING AGAI…
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2020 campaign
"Let us think the unthinkable. Let us imagine Donald Trump’s potential path to reelection as president of the United States."
So begins a Harper's essay by Thomas Frank (whose book "Listen, Liberal" I read and admired). He continues: [I]magine his disastrous r…
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2020 campaign
"I was aware of the inevitable humiliation, the inevitable mockery, the inevitable mean-spiritedness, the inevitable bad pictures."
"I’m not at a point in my life or my career where I’m looking for a way to make a fool of myself... Nothing is as it was. I already work in anot…
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2020 campaign
I remember when it became clear that Hillary Clinton was going to win the 2016 election.
I'm reading "It’s becoming clear that Trump won’t run in 2020" by Joe Scarborough. I mean, I'm reading the headline and laughing. …
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2020 campaign
More debates coming up next week. Try to predict which day will be more exciting. (And don't say they'll both be boring — that's boring.)
The Tuesday people: Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana Former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland Gov. John Hickenlo…
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2020 campaign
2020 Presidential Election Betting Odds.
Via GetMoreSports (with a lot about Mark Cuban at the link)... ADDED: It's shockingly weird that Donald Trump is President. I still find it hard…
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2020 campaign
"Thank you Joe and remember, the BRAIN is much sharper also!" tweeted Trump...
... in response to something Joe Scarborough, who'd said that Trump "looks like he’s about 20 years younger than a lot of Democratic candida…
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2020 campaign
Did "Warren, Booker stand out on chaotic Iowa stage"...
... as the Politico headline has it? ... 19 Democratic presidential candidates converged for the first time in one venue to make their five-minute …
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2020 campaign
Scott Adams: The Democrats are pushing "the stalest old stories" — Kavanaugh, impeachment, Stormy Daniels, Russian collusion — "are ya frickin' kiddin' me?"
"It's starting to get sad... They've completely given up at this point. It feels like they're not even working on task. It feels lik…
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2020 campaign
"One of the Democrats today — it's a he — sleepy person — said that he heard from a lot of foreign leaders, and they want him to be President. Of course, they do..."
"... so they can continue to rip off the United States. Of course, they do. Of course. I think if I heard that, I'd never vote for him. And …
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2020 campaign
"[Kamala] Harris chose to enter the race on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, an overt nod to the historic nature of her candidacy..."
"... and her timing was also meant to evoke Shirley Chisholm, the New York congresswoman who became the first woman to seek the Democratic Party…
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2020 campaign
"On gun control, criminal justice reform and now Syria, President Donald Trump is advancing policies this week that could appeal to voters far outside his much-talked-about political base."
Jonathan Allen observes (at NBC News): [And] Trump appears to be backing down from his threat to shut down parts of the federal government over Congr…
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2020 campaign
"Beto O'Rourke raised massive $6.1 million his first day in the 2020 race..."
According to his campaign, CNN reports. That tops the $5.9 million one-day total Sen. Bernie Sanders announced after he launched his campaign. The cl…
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