Senate Going Postal: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Shoulda gone with Jane Kim, San Francisco!

 

What happens if Kamala endorses Biden before Super Tuesday?


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/...ndorsement.html#click=https://t.co/X6PcxiWrG6

 

Given her poll numbers at the time she dropped out, nothing.

 

In CA she still had a non negligible support. We can't deny that hers would be a powerful endorsement.

 

I can deny it. Her support in the primary collapsed. Many of her remaining supporters were going to switch to Biden anyway, so endorsing him gives him little he wasn’t already going to get.

Who is going to be inspired by a Kamala endorsement that wasn’t already going to vote Biden anyway? Very few, I think. Warren voters who want a woman aren’t switching. Warren voters who preferred the more centrist Kamala...don’t exist, as they never would have switched to the more progressive appearing Warren over openly centrist Biden.

 

Joe Rogan's endorsement of Bernie Sanders is a big deal. I'm seeing a lot of takes that Bernie should disavow the endorsement because Rogan and his fans are problematic. That would be extremely dumb. Bernie is appealing to these people not because he agrees with the problematic things Rogan has said, but because he is finding common ground with them purely as a result of his left-wing rhetoric and policies. This is how we win. It's his entire theory of change.

 

"Non negligible." Her parents must be proud.

 

The dumb Twitter Left criticizing Bernie for not disavowing Rogan's endorsement is the most perfect example of why we always lose.

 

MSM and the party establishment will love this but it's really just a lot of inside-baseball style politics and it might actually hurt Biden. It will start the narrative that he's picking a VP before he's secured the primary. The few Harris supporters still out there are rabid and angry, and they will demand that from him. The preening liberal pundits will wax poetic about how it is some kind of meaningful alliance, which is laughable because everyone paying attention for the last few months remembers that her big moment of principle was to attack Biden's record on race. The whole maneuver could look incredibly disingenuous, and I don't see much upside to it. The reason her poll numbers were sinking in CA was because voters were actually starting to scrutinize her record. As a lifelong CA resident, I can assure you, she is not especially beloved here, and won her seat more by default and on the back of the state party's machine rather than any popular campaign. Her endorsement would not translate to any substantial number of votes in CA imo.

 

IF Biden gets the nomination, there is a far better chance it’s Amy Klobuchar for the Midwest support she brings. California is already a lock for Joe in the general if he gets there.

Kamala has a chance at a cabinet post though- knowing Joe, probably AG.

So...yeah....

 

Can't stand him. He's entitlement 101 in media.

 

Klobuchar isn't going to help him win the Midwest, though. Biden's camp would probably prefer to have a poc woman if they can for optics alone, like how they've tossed around Stacey Abrams's name. Harris is in that same category.

 

It will always backfire from now on. She is a plutocrat. He is a social democrat. End of story.

 

These attacks on Bernie are ridiculous. It's now called a scoop that Bernie used a bad metaphor in 1976. Heh. Well, I think it was a good metaphor myself.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-once-compared-vermont-workers-to-black-slaves

 

Obviously she volunteered to be his anti-surrogate.

"Bernie, my approval numbers are awful. I can't campaign for you. So I was thinking... maybe sometimes I can insult you in public. Say something insane like 'No one likes him.' Which is obviously untrue. I can act bitter and petulant about 2016. That might shore up your numbers a bit."

"You would do that for me, Hillary?"

"No, Bernie. I would do it for the country. For the world."

"You are one of the most selfless people I have ever met, Secretary Clinton."

 

One of the most surprising things about this primary race is how consistently bad Warren has been in handling situations like this.

These are not gotcha questions. It's really not difficult.

 

Hillary is a modern Lelouch vi Britannia

 

Truth. Hillary just has a way of digging holes, doesn't she?

 

This new remake of The Wages of Fear sounds awful.

 

You can bet that Hunter Biden doesn't give af about driving in dangerous weather.

 

Come rain or shine or blizzard, he will be at the strip club to see his favorite girl.

 

Re: Joe Rogan. I don't like Joe Rogan at all. He's definitely transphobic and has problematic views. But we're not going to win an election only having the purest of the pure vote for us. That's how we lose an election.

 

Bernie just made a post showing Joe Rogan saying good things about him. That's it. This is what triggered the fury of everyone.

As usual, on Twitter people get super heated about the most irrelevant non-issue you could possibly imagine.

Twitter seems an imaginary post-apocalyptic world where a visitor finds it impossible to communicate because he's surrounded by weird aliens who only understand one another and talk a completely different language.

In order to survive on Twitter you must learn to think like a moron. Making sense is a crime.