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Just realized Buttigieg has a hurtle no one realizes. The United States has never elected......................................................
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Or a women
 
Speaking of undesirable endorsements, I see that Marianne Williamson has endorsed Andrew Yang.
I can't see how that helps.

barfo
 
The best thing Hillary could do is leave the dem party, join the republican party, then run for President.

That would be fun. Too bad she's missed filing deadlines already, and the Republicans have cancelled many primaries also.

barfo
 
That would be fun. Too bad she's missed filing deadlines already, and the Republicans have cancelled many primaries also.

barfo
Can she be nominated at convention if its contested?
 
Biden takes heat after sparring with Iowa voter who challenged him on climate change

By Adam Shaw | Fox News

Joe Biden came under fire Tuesday from 2020 rival Tom Steyer after a video surfaced of him telling a man in Iowa to “go vote for someone else” when the man challenged him on his energy policies in the Hawkeye State.

The man, identified as Ed Fallon, took the opportunity during Biden's appearance at a campaign event to grill him on energy policies.

"I'm going to support you if you win the nomination because we've got to get rid of Trump. What are we going to do about climate change?" asked Fallon, a former state legislator. “Now you say you’re against pipelines but then you want to replace these gas lines... We have got to stop building and replacing pipelines."

“No no no... go vote for someone else,” Biden said while patting him on the chest. "You’re not going to vote for me in the primary.”

“I’m going to vote for you in the general if you treat me right,” Fallon said.

“Look, you’re asking for a picture of me, coming up and telling me you don’t support me,” Biden said, to which Fallon disagreed, saying he’d back him in the general.

“I’m looking for a primary, caucus [vote],” Biden told Fallon, who said he's supporting Steyer in the caucuses next week. Fallon then asked for a picture, to which Biden said no.

The exchange went viral online after video from journalist Zaid Jilani surfaced, and it soon brought criticism from Steyer, who said it was “no way to treat an Iowan.”

“He said he'd vote for the Dem in the general [because] he knows how important it is to beat Trump,” Steyer tweeted Tuesday. We need immediate action on climate. If you don't agree, happy to talk @ debate.”

“But don't take it out on voters we need to win in [November],” he added.

Fallon, meanwhile, took to his website, BoldIowa.com, to give his account of the interaction, where he accused Biden of not even attempting to address his concern.

“What was even more shocking was how Biden pushed and poked me, and then took hold of my jacket with both hands as he lectured me,” he wrote.

“I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it one more time: Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate LEAST likely to beat Donald Trump,” Fallon wrote. “His demeanor on the stump will inevitably come back to bite him, perhaps repeatedly."


The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
 
Can she be nominated at convention if its contested?

The Republican convention is very unlikely to be contested, unless Trump is removed from office.

barfo
 
2020 Presidential Race Update
Who's running, who's not, and what to expect for the 2020 presidential cycle:
Last updated January 28, 2020 06:26 PM EST

2020 Presidential Candidates

Announced
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Democrat
Michael Bennet
U.S. Senator from Colorado
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Democrat
Joe Biden
Former Vice President
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Democrat
Pete Buttigieg
Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
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Democrat
Michael Bloomberg
Former Mayor of New York City
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Democrat
John Delaney
Former U.S. Representative from Maryland
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Democrat
Tulsi Gabbard
U.S. Representative from Hawaii
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Democrat
Amy Klobuchar
U.S. Senator from Minnesota
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Democrat
Deval Patrick
Former Governor of Massachusetts
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Democrat
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont
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Democrat
Tom Steyer
Founder of Farallon Capital Management
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Democrat
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
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Democrat
Andrew Yang
Founder of Venture for America
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Republican
Donald Trump
U.S. President
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Republican
Joe Walsh
Radio host and former U.S. Rep. from Illinois
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Republican
Bill Weld
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Considering / Rumored
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Independent
Mark Cuban
Owner of Dallas Mavericks


Dropped
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Democrat
Cory Booker
U.S. Senator from New Jersey
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Democrat
Steve Bullock
Governor of Montana
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Democrat
Julián Castro
Former Sec. of Housing and Urban Development
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Democrat
Bill de Blasio
Mayor of New York City
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Democrat
Kirsten Gillibrand
U.S. Senator from New York
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Democrat
Kamala Harris
U.S. Senator from California
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Democrat
John Hickenlooper
Former Governor of Colorado
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Democrat
Jay Inslee
Governor of Washington
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Democrat
Wayne Messam
Mayor of Miramar, Florida
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Democrat
Seth Moulton
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
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Democrat
Beto O’Rourke
Former U.S. Representative from Texas
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Democrat
Tim Ryan
U.S. Representative from Ohio
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Democrat
Eric Swalwell
U.S. Representative from California
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Democrat
Marianne Williamson
Self-help author
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Republican
Mark Sanford
Former Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Rep.
 
Can she be nominated at convention if its contested?
In the old days, yes. I think the Democratic convention rules on this issue have changed but I'm not sure.
 
Peter Schweizer hits Elizabeth Warren for her past Washington 'swamp' tactics
By Julia Musto | Fox News

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., "swamp" tactics in her career in politics are directly contradictory to her current criticism of other candidates, author Peter Schweizer said Tuesday.

Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, Schweizer said that in his book "Profile in Corruption," which investigates 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, the apparent problem in Washington D.C. is the temptation to "cut corners."

"But also, people that are alleged reformers like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders also engage in this kind of behavior," he explained.

Schweizer said that there are multiple levels to Warren's questionable practices including that she made millions of dollars in the 1990s.

"In the 1990s she was hired by Congress as a consultant – paid by us, taxpayers – to reform bankruptcy laws, to actually write bankruptcy laws as it revolved around corporations and major torts: class action lawsuits," he said. "While she was still a consultant, and after, she started taking on corporate clients who were paying her the equivalent of $1,000 an hour to help them navigate the law that she was writing."

"I mean, it's the classic Washington swamp maneuver, by the way, that she's criticized other people for," Schweizer remarked.

Additionally, according to Schweizer, Warren's daughter was reportedly setting up a business called BTG (Business Talent Group) at the same time that Warren led the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) oversight committee which was "bailing out big Wall Street firms."

"Elizabeth Warren takes her daughter to meetings involving TARP with Senator Reid and while Elizabeth Warren is helping to bail out large financial investment firms, the daughter is raising money and signing up advisers from those same firms that are being bailed out for her new business," he remarked.

Like Warren, Schweizer writes in a new Fox News op-ed that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been a "loud and constant voice for socialist policies throughout his 30 years in Washington, D.C., a self-proclaimed champion of the collective good."

However, Schweizer writes he discovered that while Sanders may talk about the common good, his public service "has made him and his family quite wealthy."

Sanders' wife, Jane Driscoll, was appointed to several positions of influence within his administration. After the pair were married in 1988, she received a big pay increase.

" After Bernie won election to Congress in 1990, Jane’s business ties to her husband rose to a new level," he explained. "In Washington, Jane became one of her husband’s top aides, serving at various times as his chief of staff, press secretary, and political analyst."

Schweizer wrote that after a decade in Congress, Jane and the Sanders family set up a company that operated under three different names to provide income tied to Bernie’s political career.

"These entities served as financial conduits to run cash to the Sanders family," he added. "Even when Jane got a job not working for Bernie, it still seemed to be connected to his political position."

The New York Times has labeled these stories and more as "building blocks for scandals."
 
Hillary Clinton ‘intimidated’ by Tulsi Gabbard's $50M lawsuit, won’t accept legal documents, lawyer claims: report
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News

Hillary Clinton or her representatives have, on at least two occasions, declined to accept legal papers delivered in connection with Tulsi Gabbard’s lawsuit against her, Gabbard’s attorney claims.

Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who is seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Clinton last week over the former secretary of state’s insinuation that Gabbard was a “Russian asset.”

Brian Dunne, an attorney representing Gabbard, told the New York Post that Secret Service agents turned away a process server Tuesday when the server tried to deliver the lawsuit to Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., north of New York City.

Dunne said the server was instructed instead to deliver the papers to the Washington office of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, but Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, also declined to accept the legal papers, according to the Post.

“I find it rather unbelievable that Hillary Clinton is so intimidated by Tulsi Gabbard that she won’t accept service of process,” Dunne told the newspaper. “But I guess here we are.”

Dunne told the paper his team is considering what steps to take next.

During a Jan. 23 appearance on "Fox & Friends," Gabbard accused Clinton of using “smear tactics” against her in an attempt to suppress her freedom of speech.

“I have dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country,” said Gabbard, 38, a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard who served in Iraq before being elected to Congress in 2012, “and for Hillary Clinton and her powerful allies to attempt to smear me and accuse me -- really implying that I'm a traitor to the country that I love -- is something that I cannot allow to go unchecked."

Clinton had said in an October 2019 interview that one of the Democratic presidential candidates was “the favorite of the Russians” and was being groomed as a third-party candidate for the 2020 general election in November.

Clinton never mentioned Gabbard by name, but when asked to confirm whether the former first lady was referring to Gabbard, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill responded, “If the nesting doll fits … ” a reference to popular Russian dolls.

The remarks from Clinton drew immediate pushback from Gabbard on Oct. 18.

“Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a … concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know – it was always you, through your proxies and … powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.

Gabbard’s camp announced the lawsuit soon after the congresswoman’s Jan. 21 remarks, in which she criticized Clinton for claiming about Sen. Bernie Sanders that “nobody likes him” and that “he got nothing done” as a lawmaker.

“It’s time to grow up, you know? This isn’t high school,” Gabbard told WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., referring to the Clinton comments.

Gabbard had supported Sanders in the 2016 race, and visited a Sanders campaign office in Plymouth, N.H., earlier this week in what was being viewed as a sign of dealmaking among Democratic candidates as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary draw closer, The Washington Post reported.
 
Hillary Clinton ‘intimidated’ by Tulsi Gabbard's $50M lawsuit, won’t accept legal documents, lawyer claims: report
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News

Hillary Clinton or her representatives have, on at least two occasions, declined to accept legal papers delivered in connection with Tulsi Gabbard’s lawsuit against her, Gabbard’s attorney claims.

Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who is seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Clinton last week over the former secretary of state’s insinuation that Gabbard was a “Russian asset.”

Brian Dunne, an attorney representing Gabbard, told the New York Post that Secret Service agents turned away a process server Tuesday when the server tried to deliver the lawsuit to Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., north of New York City.

Dunne said the server was instructed instead to deliver the papers to the Washington office of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, but Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, also declined to accept the legal papers, according to the Post.

“I find it rather unbelievable that Hillary Clinton is so intimidated by Tulsi Gabbard that she won’t accept service of process,” Dunne told the newspaper. “But I guess here we are.”

Dunne told the paper his team is considering what steps to take next.

During a Jan. 23 appearance on "Fox & Friends," Gabbard accused Clinton of using “smear tactics” against her in an attempt to suppress her freedom of speech.

“I have dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country,” said Gabbard, 38, a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard who served in Iraq before being elected to Congress in 2012, “and for Hillary Clinton and her powerful allies to attempt to smear me and accuse me -- really implying that I'm a traitor to the country that I love -- is something that I cannot allow to go unchecked."

Clinton had said in an October 2019 interview that one of the Democratic presidential candidates was “the favorite of the Russians” and was being groomed as a third-party candidate for the 2020 general election in November.

Clinton never mentioned Gabbard by name, but when asked to confirm whether the former first lady was referring to Gabbard, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill responded, “If the nesting doll fits … ” a reference to popular Russian dolls.

The remarks from Clinton drew immediate pushback from Gabbard on Oct. 18.

“Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a … concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know – it was always you, through your proxies and … powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.

Gabbard’s camp announced the lawsuit soon after the congresswoman’s Jan. 21 remarks, in which she criticized Clinton for claiming about Sen. Bernie Sanders that “nobody likes him” and that “he got nothing done” as a lawmaker.

“It’s time to grow up, you know? This isn’t high school,” Gabbard told WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., referring to the Clinton comments.

Gabbard had supported Sanders in the 2016 race, and visited a Sanders campaign office in Plymouth, N.H., earlier this week in what was being viewed as a sign of dealmaking among Democratic candidates as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary draw closer, The Washington Post reported.
Gabbard already declared that she did not want to make a deal with Sanders.
However, Clinton will lose any court case with Gabbard any day now.
 
OTTUMWA, IA—As part of his effort to reinvigorate the coalition that once put Barack Obama in the White House, presidential candidate Joe Biden issued a moving plea for party unity when he told a Democratic voter “You’re a piece of shit and I hope everyone like you dies,” reports confirmed Thursday. “Look here, pal, fuck you and fuck anybody who thinks like you,” the former vice president said to a town hall participant in what political experts have hailed as a rousing call for Democrats, independents, and even moderate Republicans to join together in harmony and overcome the divisiveness and rancor that have characterized the Trump era. “If that’s what you believe, you’re clearly an idiot, and I don’t need your vote. Seriously, you and every single person in this fucking town deserves to die. Now back the hell up before I tear your throat out with my goddamn teeth.” After the event, a screaming, red-faced Biden reportedly continued to share his inspiring vision by informing a group of unwitting Iowans that he could beat their asses with one hand tied behind his back.
 
Brian Dunne, an attorney representing Gabbard, told the New York Post that Secret Service agents turned away a process server Tuesday when the server tried to deliver the lawsuit to Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., north of New York City.

Dunne said the server was instructed instead to deliver the papers to the Washington office of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, but Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, also declined to accept the legal papers, according to the Post.

How funny would it be if she got served papers on live television? In the middle of an interview or something. I know those process servers can be sneaky sometimes.
 
I think Bloomberg will be the candidate. To the general public, he seems in control, and he answers the vote dislike of four more Trump years. This election is about Trump power and not any Democrat's ability to create a sensible program for the average joe.
 
If Trump is acquitted (looks like he will) and if he is somehow re-elected, the GOP as we knew it is officially fucked...and this country is also officially fucked.
 
The DNC convention committees are amazingly bad. It’s like a lineup of Dick Tracy villains, white collar style. There isn’t a single objective figure in the entire bunch. 100% establishment corporatists, many of which with clear and proven biases against currently running candidates.
 
The DNC convention committees are amazingly bad. It’s like a lineup of Dick Tracy villains, white collar style. There isn’t a single objective figure in the entire bunch. 100% establishment corporatists, many of which with clear and proven biases against currently running candidates.

doesn't surprise me at all! its 2 party politics at its best.
 
Very Little Michael Bloomberg exposed by POTUS Trump in Hannity interview on Super Bowl Sunday!

Wants a box to stand on at the debate. :biglaugh:

(Spoiler alert. The DNC will comply)
 
Very Little Michael Bloomberg exposed by POTUS Trump in Hannity interview on Super Bowl Sunday!

Wants a box to stand on at the debate. :biglaugh:

(Spoiler alert. The DNC will comply)
I just don’t get it lol like, why should Bloomberg care so much? He’s not tall, neither am I, who cares?
 
Trump is acquitted and he is re-elected, the GOP as we knew it is officially fucked.

You say that like it's a bad thing, while most Trump voters voted for him because he is a puppet of neither party, and is draining the swamps of both parties.

The Deep State knows no party boundaries.
 
John Kerry, in now-deleted expletive-laced tweet, addresses report he was overheard planning 2020 run

By Gregg Re | Fox News

Former Secretary of State John Kerry was reportedly overheard in a hotel restaurant Sunday warning of the very real "possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party -- down whole," according to an NBC News report that sent shockwaves through an already-fractured liberal constituency bracing for a potentially historic Sanders win in Monday's pivotal Iowa caucuses.

Kerry, in the Renaissance Savery Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, on the eve of the caucus vote, also reportedly remarked that "maybe I'm f---ing deluding myself here," but that he could conceivably launch a run for president now that donors "have the reality of Bernie" surging in the polls.

Kerry, who is in town as a Joe Biden surrogate, added that donors such as venture capitalist Doug Hickey would have to "raise a couple of million," and that he would need to leave the board of Bank of America and stop giving paid speeches.


Immediately after the report broke, Kerry fired off a tweet with an uncharacteristic expletive, as he didn't outright deny that he had been overheard by the reporter saying Sanders posed an existential threat to the Democratic Party.

He did deny saying he could run or was running for president.

"As I told the reporter, I am absolutely not running for President," Kerry wrote on Twitter. "Any report otherwise is f---ing (or categorically) false. I’ve been proud to campaign with my good friend Joe Biden, who is going to win the nomination, beat Trump, and make an outstanding president."

Kerry then quickly deleted the tweet and reposted it without the profanity.

He separately told NBC News: "This is a complete and total misinterpretation based on overhearing only one side of a phone conversation. A friend who watches too much cable called me wondering whether I’d ever jump into the race late in the game if Democrats were choosing an unelectable nominee. I listed all the reasons I could not possibly do that and would not -- and will not under any circumstances -- do that."

Incredulous commentators and reporters faulted Kerry for the blunder, even as they recognized that his apparent panic was emblematic of the state of the establishment Democratic Party.

"I don't know who needs to hear this, but the lobby of the Renaissance Savery in Des Moines the day before the Iowa caucuses is *not* the place to have private conversations," said Brianne Pfannenstiel, a reporter with the Des Moines Register.

Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity during the Super Bowl LIV pregame show, President Trump asserted that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was "rigging the election again" against "crazy Bernie,' after the DNC announced it would change debate rules in a way that would help Mike Bloomberg appear on stage.


Trump also warned that the left-wing of the Democratic Party is insurgent, and would soon unseat establishment figures. Sanders is backed by prominent far-left-wing Democrats including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

"I think she's a very confused, very nervous woman," Trump said, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, who reluctantly announced impeachment proceedings last year after months of resisting the progressive wing of her party.

"I don't think she wanted to do this," Trump continued, concerning impeachment. "I think she really knew what was going to happen, and her worst nightmare has happened. I don't think she's gonna be there too long, either. I think that the radical left -- and she's sorta radical left too, by the way -- but I think the radical left is gonna take over."


At the same time, Trump made clear he had no love for more established Democratic insiders, either, remarking that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is quite short.

"You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on," Trump said. "OK, it’s OK, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, OK? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ... I would love to run against Bloomberg."

Fox News' Andrew O'Reilly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 
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