Your 2020 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

i was looking at a predictit for most likely dem nom. kamala was #1 which makes sense but beto was #2 which seems totally wrong to me

Maybe I was just reminded of earlier when Carl didn’t get that Chris Murphy and Brian Schatz have been tweeting that way we’ll before he ever heard of AOC

AOC is going to destroy this site by convincing a bunch of elderly rich career politicians and their weirdo staffers to tweet more and tweet worse. God bless her https://t.co/asF6dyW1Rs

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) January 18, 2019

Increasingly don’t think Beto is running

something tells me the socialists 4 beto account is not entirely serious

pic.twitter.com/QLB3rH780F

— Socialists for Beto (@socialists4beto) December 14, 2018

b-b-b-but then who would politico write about

xp

beto was #2 which seems totally wrong to me

this early it is easier to be wrong than be president. at a guess, I'd say beto is number two by representing the fantasy of a "centrist candidate who can appeal to big money contributors, be a southern white male, and still possibly excite many pieces of the democratic coalition because he's young, good-looking and can be sold to blacks as a not-racist".

i'd rate the following as more likely primary winners than beto: kamala, sanders, warren, sherrod, biden, booker, klobuchar, gillibrand. maybe he'd be right at the end there along klobuchar and gillibrand but no higher than that. i mean this is just based on my gut i don't really know anything.

is anyone good running/going to run

no, there are no good people in politics

unless like, Russ Feingold shows up

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wait until Deez Nuts make a formal announcement imo

i deeznuts do solemnly swear

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LAUSD strike over apparently thanks to mediation by garcetti, so look out for him to announce soon (if the ominous real estate corruption probe of city hall doesn't get too close to him). he sucks btw.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:22 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he could check the 'candidate being investigated by the FBI' box that was so popular with the 2016 candidates for potus

i don't know why these people with no chance are throwing their hats in the ring.

My exact statement watching the 2016 Republican primaries, yet here we are.

Kamala Harris Assembles Campaign Staff Of Unpaid California Prison Laborers https://t.co/t3ctLD1zJa pic.twitter.com/mvttaqnr01

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 22, 2019

the onion has been so on the nose for so long did clickhole drain all their funny writers or something

Yes, probably.

the onion is still chuckleworthy a fair amount of the time but that one (and other recent ones) are basically comrade borowitz

Kamala is Hillary already, great.

Do they still do Resistance Hole? Trying to imagine what it would be like if they devoted a whole spinoff to making fun of Bush critics in 04

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/kamala-2020-harris-fundraising-pac-donations-race-13552974.php

The campaign logo and colors are inspired by the historic campaign of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, who, 47 years ago, became the first black person and first woman to seek the nomination of a major party.

is morbz turning over in his grave yet

Fun fact Shirley Chisholm had a personal meeting with the Lubavitcher rebbe

I’ve read that she credited him for inspiring her work in expanding the food stamps program

if/when Bernie announces he should really put Cardi B on staff

No way. Bad move. Bernie’s dedicated fanbase wouldn’t fall for that. What they want is pure policy, not personalities. Meat and potatoes not bells and whistles.

cool

"We must stand with Israel" repeated over and over. Itemizing in detail various weapons systems, she says, "Which is why I support the United States commitment to provide $38 billion over the next decade." "I am fully committed to maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge." https://t.co/TLDrCTSJzs

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) January 23, 2019

He's in! Stay calm everybody.

Pete Buttigieg, a 37-year-old Indiana mayor and Afghanistan war veteran, launches a long-shot bid to be the first openly gay president https://t.co/yWbMQOjsCO

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 23, 2019

I've read two pretty lengthy pieces on Pete Buttigieg in the past two days yet I can't say I really learned much of anything about where he stands on any specific issue. So that's not great.

haha xp

However unfair it might be, no one with the last name 'Buttigieg' will ever become president.

he seems like a nice guy

the two articles both took pains to inform us how to pronounce his last name yet came to different conclusions somehow (Boot-uh-judge vs. BOOTY-jidge)

Whatever the correct pronunciation is, a sizable portion of the electorate is probably just going to wind up him Butt Gauge.

"booty judge" seems, alarmingly, most likely

BUTTMENTUM

I would feel compelled to employ gentle dissuasion if any of the Butz-es in my extended family considered a run for public office.

His Twitter bio says "BOOT-edge-edge"

Getting people to remember a correct pronunciation isn't the problem. That'll just be a phonetics shortcut.

Getting people to remember the spelling will be impossible.

He should get people to start calling him by a snappy nickname and try again in 2024.

Boot-O

OTOH, someone with a name like that may have the requisite experience in dealing with bullies to make him a formidable Trump opponent.

lil boots, bootsie, bootsie collins, giggles

cool

I hate AIPAC but there's pretty much no candidate that crosses the Israel lobby. Sanders comes the closest.

i'm sure Trump and his crack team of nicknamers would find a way to give Mayor Pete a sobriquet that was coded gay-bashing.

i think i've said this before but i really like buttigieg's run for the dnc chair, he said a lot of the right things to get my attention -- a run to raise his national profile & set him up for bigger things than small town mayor is a good thing in my book even if he's a longshot

i've listened to interviews with him and he seems pretty great

reminds me of Obama in the sense that he has a technocratic bravado, "why can't we just do this?", seems unafraid (for now) of crossing entrenched Dem powers

technocratic bravado married to what feels like a legitimate 'just folks' ability to communicate with everyday people without coming off as too high minded

('just folks' here being my pretty thoughtless stand-in for 'small-town middle aged white people')

the two articles both took pains to inform us how to pronounce his last name yet came to different conclusions somehow (Boot-uh-judge vs. BOOTY-jidge)

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:44 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the booty judge is running for president baby