2020 Democratic presidential primary

Not likely to vote for him but this is good

HAPPENING NOW: @SenBooker escorts victims of abuse seeking asylum across the Santa Fe bridge from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso, TX. The asylum seekers were sent back to Mexico under the MPP program. They have asked for their identities to be protected. @CoryBooker pic.twitter.com/FKXcIZAmHC

— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) July 3, 2019

Booker would actually be an ideal AG given his dedication to reforming the prison system.
While we’re at it we can give EPA to Inslee

I'd say the "cop" label is also possibly a direct appeal to supporters of Black Lives Matter.

Whoever is the candidate will lose to trump

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-predicted-to-lose-reelection-in-model-that-forecasted-democratic-takeover-of-house/ar-AADHrcS?ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

It's pretty far out to be making such a confident call but hopeful at least. Much more so than this pretty strong argument against hope:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/20/four-reasons-why-trump-is-cruising-towards-re-election

That was fast

This should’ve been super predictable because the white California liberals who make up the bedrock of Kamala’s support have always hated busing fervently. https://t.co/3KkqbgsH6F

— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) July 4, 2019

there's no way busing would improve the fucked-up-beyond-repair segregation of our public schools, nor would it rescind the SCOTUS decision that allowed the linking of property taxes and the funding of public schools.

something weird about this tweet/headline...

Harris, Warren tie for third place in new 2020 Dem poll, but Biden still leadshttps://t.co/5tltSmJZed

— POLITICO (@politico) July 4, 2019

surprised no one’s doing a “who’s on first” routine in the replies

It's hilarious how much of a consistent hate-on Politico has always had for Bernie Sanders and for the far left in general. They were also the ones who paid to have his old public access TV show's archives digitized just so they could comb through them for anything that could form the basis for a hit piece. In the end, they didn't find much but they wrote the hit piece anyway, complaining about completely accurate and morally right-headed statements he made about Nicaragua, the Zapatistas, etc.

But they gave us some A+ footage of Bernie with mall goths.

Yeah, it's almost worth all the yellow journalism just for that clip of him talking about anarchism with them.

Politico was started to normalize a lot of really rightwing columnists, was the rumor back then.

NEWS - @TomSteyer told his staff last week that he's jumping into the presidential race after all, and is planning an announcement on Tuesday https://t.co/GttjRy0DRK

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) July 8, 2019

Who?

If Steyer's main issue is impeachment, then running for president is totally illogical. If he wins, impeachment is moot. If he loses, he has no leverage to impeach that he doesn't already have.

I guess the one thing his campaign could conceivably do is to act as a single-issue proxy for democrats who desire impeachment to rally around, so that, if he were to draw strong support around that single issue, it would uncloak the appetite for impeachment in a more compelling way than simple opinion polling. But several of the announced candidates have come out strongly for impeachment already, so what is the point?

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell does not handle sweltering well, cowardly ends presidential campaign

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is reportedly set to end his presidential campaign.

According to the LA Times, Swalwell will abandon his campaign on Monday and announce that he’ll be running for a fifth term as a congressman.

Swalwell, who consistently trailed the polls at 1 percent or less, is the first to drop out from the mammoth Democratic field of more than 20 candidates.

my sensationalist NY Post style headlines need some work.

Swal-ya-later

Swallen to Bursting

That's Swal Folks

Swal's Well That Ends Now

what a way to go out, out like a swalwell

he’ll be running for a fifth term as a congressman.

I'll take it

Swallen Angel

I know he's not a Democrat, but I'm confused, is Howard Schultz still running for President?

He’s going to make a decision after September 2nd

i thought he already said no

He said he was going to make a decision after September 2nd

Well.

ormer Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lead the Democratic presidential field, according to the national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll’s opening measure of the 2020 horse race.

Biden gets the support of 26 percent of voters who say they will participate in next year’s Democratic primaries or caucuses, while 19 percent back Warren.

They’re followed by Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who are tied at 13 percent.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg gets support from 7 percent of Democratic primary voters, and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and entrepreneur Andrew Yang are at 2 percent.

That’s gonna stay your top 4

maybe most of Biden's voters will die of old age by February

It will be interesting to see if the next debate shakes things up again. I kind of doubt Biden will get caught flat-footed with the segregationist stuff again, but anything could happen.

Too bad the next debate is another 2-night deal with a bunch of people who are trying to get hired as msnbc and cnn commentators

This is pretty amazing but I'm also half worried this will bite her in the ass

BREAKING: Our members in New Hampshire just asked @ewarren if she would commit to pressuring the Israel to stop their 52 year military Occupation over the Palestinian people.

She said YES. pic.twitter.com/8GLhNMQ2gf

— IfNotNow🔥 (@IfNotNowOrg) July 8, 2019

"Too bad the next debate is another 2-night deal with a bunch of people who are trying to get hired as msnbc and cnn commentators"

I just read there are only 7 candidates at the moment who will qualify. so people better get their fundraising up.

Well that would be a pretty significant statement if it wasn't obvious from the clip that she isn't listening to a word they are saying and also if her record wasn't largely made up of AIPAC approved positions. good for the activists for getting publicity, i imagine Warren will have some campaign surrogates quietly issue a correction friday after news hours.

Gravel made it to 65K, and his crew are streaming now:

https://www.pscp.tv/MikeGravel

They had great chuckles that Hickenlooper only had 14K donors

https://outline.com/7hYHUG

The Buttigieg column that the New Republic quickly pulled

complete embarrassment

Why did the outline republish it?

that's not web publication The Outline but a web-based reader app called "Outline" which cached the article

Nevermind I’m an idiot who can’t read domain names

I saw the article before it was pulled, absolutely shocking someone let that go through editing and be published

that link isn't working -- what's the gist?

he's a bad gay

Gay writer says Mayor Pete is wrong kind of gay

representative excerpt:

Mary Pete and I are just not the same kind of gay. (For those of you wondering about “Mary Pete”: a couple of months ago I asked Facebook what the gay equivalent of Uncle Tom was, and this was the answer at which we collectively arrived.)

In May 2011, Peck's criticism of Jewish-American literature in which he claimed "[I]f I have to read another book about the Holocaust, I’ll kill a Jew myself" prompted a public outcry. His editors later removed the statement from his article.[8]