2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[the next guy]

Chasten Buttigieg is on CNN. Gay dudes take the other’s last name when they married? Didn’t know that. Guess Chasten is the bytch.

 

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Obama isn't going to endorse anyone in the primary. That would rip the party apart. He sees himself as the person to unify the party at the DNC convention.

Not sure why people can't get this through their heads!

 

[King Kreole]

Her general campaign has been disappointing overall. She’s ran entirely too much on identity politics bullshyt inserting “YOU NEED A WOMAN FOR-“ into every single comment. She started losing me in the November debates when it seemed she was incapable of drawing a comparison between her and Bernie without taking shytty Hillary-esque digs at Bernie. Her attempts to explain how M4A would be paid for didn’t bother me but her attempting to say Bernie has no idea how to was annoying. Wasn’t a fan of her pivoting to a 2 step approach for M4A because if you’re compromising ALREADY and the voting hasn’t even started, why should I trust you’ll stay the path in the general or if you win office? How are you supposed to unite progressives and everyone else when you spend more time shytting on the other progressive than promoting those ideas? And then the sexism thing left me convinced that, yep, this is a Hillary campaign with fake woke messaging. She’s just proven to be entirely too malleable. The Super PAC thing lol. Don’t get me started

tl;dr she just proved herself to be inauthentic and an opportunist

This post is like a Russian nesting doll of idiocy. Elizabeth Warren, who ran the most substantial and issues-based campaign in modern history, apparently ran too much on "identity politics bullshyt". The woman literally made plans the heart of her entire campaign, but apparently that all goes out the window because she dared also acknowledge that she was a woman. If drawing distinctions on the lines of experience and history is considered a "Hillary-esque dig" at Bernie, then Bernie is truly beyond criticism. The idea that she spent more time shytting on Bernie than promoting her own ideas is especially idiotic. She just released the only fukking Coronavirus plan in the field, god forbid she also try and highlight why she thinks she'd make a better President than the rest of the field while she does so.

Anyway, y'all keep telling on yourselves

 

[King Kreole]

Been saying this. A lot of these Bernie dudes hate Warren more than they love the progressive movement

 

[JMurder]

Why didn't she say all of this at the beginning of her campaign? Why was she all "chummy" with Bernie until now? Why all of a sudden is she pro-PAC? Why attack Bernie when according to data scientist @Rhakim it's Pete eating up all your votes?

She's not pro-PAC but when Bloomberg waits until just before ST to drop millions on his campaign, almost all the other candidates are relying on PACs, and a Super PAC decides to spend money to further her campaign (something she can't do anything about) what can she do about it short of completely disavowing said Super PAC? On the one hand I understand how it looks, but on the other hand tell the other candidates to play fair

only bernie is pure, probably the only pure politician in history there ever was or ever will be

Who knows wtf this even means? Bernie is just like all the other politicians in this race in that if he weren't the front runner, he'd compromise a thing or two in order to win. That's why he flip flopped on delegate rules in regards to the primary.

Nah, just highly amused at basically saying Bernie is the only Progressive candidate when a majority of their policies and views are similar.

Don't need white liberals to say shyt. Old black voters definitely don't represent my views or anybody I share political views with

I think of all the nominees who are clearly losing to Bernie & Biden, Liz's campaign is clearly not on life support. She just got (I think) 30 mil from supporters in February, and the field of 7 has just narrowed to 5. Amy is a non-factor and Bloomberg keeps getting eaten alive by Liz. The field is clearly Bernie, Biden & Warren right now unless Amy passes her in delegates on Tuesday.

Its safe to say warren wants biden to win the nomination if she doesnt drop after tuesday

It's safe to say she wants the race between Bernie, Biden and herself because she thinks she can win delegates from voters who don't want to vote for either

Got $12,000,000 in dark money talking bout "Chip in."

Technically, her campaign isn't seeing any of that money

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[Wild self]

You will have government ran insurance, And there’s no guarantee you will have a job.

You really love giving $500+ dollars a month for private insurance? For what? For a greedy doctor to see you a couple of minutes faster? A medical bill?

Insurance companies are a waste of time. They dont deserve to exist. Health coverage is a human right, not a privilege that only rich people can have.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

This post is like a Russian nesting doll of idiocy. Elizabeth Warren, who ran the most substantial and issues-based campaign in modern history, apparently ran too much on "identity politics bullshyt". The woman literally made plans the heart of her entire campaign, but apparently that all goes out the window because she dared also acknowledge that she was a woman. If drawing distinctions on the lines of experience and history is considered a "Hillary-esque dig" at Bernie, then Bernie is truly beyond criticism. The idea that she spent more time shytting on Bernie than promoting her own ideas is especially idiotic. She just released the only fukking Coronavirus plan in the field, god forbid she also try and highlight why she thinks she'd make a better President than the rest of the field while she does so.

Anyway, y'all keep telling on yourselves

Please stop trying to pretend like she didn’t make identity politics a large part of her campaign. She said she would wear a planned parenthood scarf to her inauguration.

 

[FAH1223]

The profile of the guy who got the message : Instagram

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Please stop trying to pretend like she didn’t make identity politics a large part of her campaign. She said she would wear a planned parenthood scarf to her inauguration.

All politics are identity politics.

 

[JMurder]

Biden probably offered Buttigieg Secretary of State. Bloomberg entering the race will hurt Biden though, clearing the path for Bernie. Warren should drop out and her continuing staying in this race will make her slowly but increasingly despised by progressives.

Do tell

Honestly, I'd rather have to choose between two progressives than a progressive and a moderate but cook

 

[Atlrocafella]

You really love giving $500+ dollars a month for private insurance? For what? For a greedy doctor to see you a couple of minutes faster? A medical bill?

Insurance companies are a waste of time. They dont deserve to exist. Health coverage is a human right, not a privilege that only rich people can have.

You really live on another planet if you think the average person is paying $500/mo or anything close to that for insurance as an employee of a company.

 

[King Kreole]

Please stop trying to pretend like she didn’t make identity politics a large part of her campaign. She said she would wear a planned parenthood scarf to her inauguration.

She is by far the most substantial, issues-based candidate in the race. She did the work and earned the right to also include her identity in her pitch.

She goes out and says "Here's my 100 point plan to deal with the erosion of the working class and rights of marginalized people in this country, and it's all things a President can do all by herself " and y'all go nuts, jumping on that last part and says she's running on gender. It's absurd.

 

[Piff Perkins]

What does Pete even...do? What is he an expert on? I can't imagine him getting a decent cabinet position. Secretary of State is the most prestigious cabinet position, Biden is gonna give that to someone he actually likes, and who is qualified for the job. Not a small town mayor.

Hell he might give it to John Kerry, who endorsed him. Kerry was a great SoS for Obama and is clearly still capable of doing the job. It would make sense to bring him back essentially to repair Trump's mess for a couple years, then step down for someone younger/newer. Who knows though.

 

[The ADD]

What does Pete even...do? What is he an expert on? I can't imagine him getting a decent cabinet position. Secretary of State is the most prestigious cabinet position, Biden is gonna give that to someone he actually likes, and who is qualified for the job. Not a small town mayor.

Hell he might give it to John Kerry, who endorsed him. Kerry was a great SoS for Obama and is clearly still capable of doing the job. It would make sense to bring him back essentially to repair Trump's mess for a couple years, then step down for someone younger/newer. Who knows though.

^^^