2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Wild self]

i'm all for them running on a message of the wealthy paying their fair share of taxes, but this viva la revolución, "oligarch this and that" rhetoric sounds like dudes been watching one too many YT history channels. think you're going to employ 18th century tactics to the 21st century brehs...

But those 18th century scenarios are the establishment's worst nightmare. That is why they are now when they cross lines against the progressives.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Liz slowly transforming into a full blown snake in front of ours like Cobra Commander in that G. I. Joe cartoon movie.

(Hired hillary SC staffer)
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article227400084.html

As the Clinton transition team fielded ideas from senators in the final months of the campaign, Warren was treated as a “first among equals,” according to a Clinton transition official. Warren’s chief of staff Dan Geldon and Clinton senior staffer Jake Sullivan were in close contact and met repeatedly in the final months of the campaign. Warren was deep in the weeds on personnel and pushed the Clinton transition team to hire her allies like Rohit Chopra, a veteran of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

One part of below article:

Inside the Secret List of Demands Warren Gave Hillary

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

With her mantra of “personnel is policy,” she lobbied on the obscure but important transition “landing teams” for economic policy — helping install people on her list like Johnson and Porter to top positions. Clinton transition aides remember Bharat Ramamurti, a top Warren policy aide now on her presidential campaign, occasionally dropped into the office.

@the cac mamba

 

[Uno]

@wire28 @Th3G3ntleman @ezrathegreat @Jello Biafra @humble forever @Dameon Farrow @Piff Perkins @Pressure @johnedwarduado @Armchair Militant @panopticon @88m3 @Tres Leches @ADevilYouKhow @dtownreppin214

Reminds of 2016 already. Everyone knows what it means

 

[Pressure]

It's a shame that we view the way to beat white supremacy is by following an old white man who may appoint a black person as their aid.

 

[Wild self]

this superdelegate is NOT EVEN A DEMOCRAT YOU GUYS

Why no one making a big deal from this? Does he know millions of lives are in danger with Coronavirus?

 

[Uno Venova]

Liz slowly transforming into a full blown snake in front of our eyes like Cobra Commander in that G. I. Joe cartoon movie.

This is probably why, unfortunately it seems like she’s really put the platform of M4A on the backburner.

 

[Wild self]

It also exposes how fukked up out capitalist economy is.

Because best believe they're going to be people with symptoms that are actually sick but will still go to work and spread it, because companies would have you rather die than take a sick day.

That, and the economy crashing, would make everyone vote for Bernie in a lopsided election.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

(Hired hillary SC staffer)
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article227400084.html



One part of below article:

Inside the Secret List of Demands Warren Gave Hillary

That staffer first worked on Obama's campaign in 2012 as well as political campaigns before *and* after serving as the South Carolina STATE DIRECTOR for Hillary's campaign in 2016. They're not "Hillary people." These lies by omission that you guys like to engage in on here to push a narrative are annoying.

@the cac mamba

Do you even understand what a policy aide does?

As the Clinton transition team fielded ideas from senators in the final months of the campaign, Warren was treated as a “first among equals,” according to a Clinton transition official. Warren’s chief of staff Dan Geldon and Clinton senior staffer Jake Sullivan were in close contact and met repeatedly in the final months of the campaign. Warren was deep in the weeds on personnel and pushed the Clinton transition team to hire her allies like Rohit Chopra, a veteran of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

With her mantra of “personnel is policy,” she lobbied on the obscure but important transition “landing teams” for economic policy — helping install people on her list like Johnson and Porter to top positions. Clinton transition aides remember Bharat Ramamurti, a top Warren policy aide now on her presidential campaign, occasionally dropped into the office.

Warren also personally and persistently lobbied campaign chairman John Podesta, members of the transition team and Clinton herself. When Warren visited the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters shortly after endorsing Clinton in 2016, she insisted on a separate meeting with the campaign’s policy team.

“There were the do’s and the don’t’s — do [hire] this person and don’t with this person,” recalled Podesta of their conversations in the fall of 2016. “She was more fired up about the don’t’s than the do’s.” Podesta wouldn’t name names but said: “If you worked at the Obama Treasury Department or the SEC then you were probably in trouble.”

Or as one transition official half-jokingly described the “don’t” personnel: “Anyone who’s ever talked to Larry Summers.” Before becoming Facebook COO, Sandberg had been Summers’ chief of staff when he was Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration. He had been her thesis adviser at Harvard as well.

This is how you build a coalition. You people have become completely unreasonable.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

It's a shame that we view the way to beat white supremacy is by following an old white man who may appoint a black person as their aid.

In order to beat trump is it any better to follow an old white woman that brought on board a bunch of aides from a previous old white womans campaign that lost to trump?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This is probably why, unfortunately it seems like she’s really put the platform of M4A on the backburner.

Only an irrational person would hold that belief.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Senator Elizabeth Warren
Warren turns to intellectuals and academics for her policy positions. But as her policy director Jonathan Donenberg explained, her policies are ultimately all her own ideas—and that’s why she can explain each in a 30-second elevator pitch or a 10-minute policy speech. A Politico piece detailed many of the “Ivory Tower team of wonks” behind Warren’s policies, noting that many have Ivy League credentials and other elite accolades. Donenberg attended Yale Law and was a Fulbright scholar. Moreover, many have worked with Warren in the Senate, creating almost an in-house think tank for her policy vision.

Bharat Ramamurti is a key domestic policy adviser. He worked in Warren's Senate office on banking and economic policy. Many Warren aides and advisers, like Representative Katie Porter of California, are former law school students, and have become a network of experts on which Warren has relied.

Warren also consults with the likes of Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and noted economist at CUNY, and Berkeley professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, inequality experts who assisted Warren in developing her wealth tax. Ganesh Sitaraman, a Vanderbilt professor and another former Warren student, is not on the campaign payroll but is a longtime Warren adviser. Full disclosure: Sitaraman is a board member at the Prospect.

Sasha Baker is Warren's policy adviser on national security and was formerly the deputy chief of staff for Obama's secretary of defense, Ash Carter. Mehrsa Baradaran advised Warren's campaign on its child-care proposal and is now a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. She also serves on the board of this magazine.

Who’s Writing the 2020 Candidates’ Policies?

 

[King Kreole]

Same situation?

When was Elizabeth Warren running in a competitive 2 person race with rules that allowed superdelegates to basically broadcast who they'd already chosen to be the nominee? She hasn't been competitive in this race for a while now and has no path to the nomination besides a desperate attempt to have it handed to her despite maybe not winning one state.

She should be criticized, I honestly wish Bernie would stop ignoring her loser ass and actually check her for lying but I also know that will be followed by pearl clutching and promotion of false narrative from people who have spent more time whining about her losing than helping her win.

You're right, it wasn't the same situation. Bernie's was even worse. Whereas Liz is in a 6 person race with the frontrunner garnering 29% of the voting share, Bernie was in a clear 2-person race with the other candidate winning a 55% majority of the popular vote, and he still tried to get superdelegates to overturn the popular will of the people and install him just because he believed he was the better candidate in the general election.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Bernie and his campaign is ignoring her, as they should when they could be defending themselves and pointing out her lies.

Bernie supporters on the other hand are saying fukk her and rightfully so for implying that she, the supposed 'ally' of the progressives that make up his base is actively looking to play a role in subverting the will of the people. She deserves to be attacked by people who's votes would be wasted if this strategy works.

so its a primary until someone competes against bernie because Bernie is perfect

got it.

 

[King Kreole]

This is probably why, unfortunately it seems like she’s really put the platform of M4A on the backburner.

she talks about M4A at almost every town hall and speech she gives.

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