2020 Candidate Speculation

[teatime]

Apr 17, 2019 20:13:33 GMT -6 coconutbacon said:

Apr 17, 2019 19:34:07 GMT -6 jaygee said:

I’m excited to listen to the full PSA interview with Senator Harris. It just came out today.

They also rereleased the Elizabeth Warren one from Feb as a stand alone since they are doing that with all the candidates now. I just listened to it. It’s very. I love her and her policies. She doesn’t have the charisma for me but I’m still sorting out how important that is. I want to see her in a key position if she is not on the ticket.

I get this. I actually feel like Liz, in many ways, most closely aligns with my policy desires for a candidate. But, yeah, I agree— she doesn’t have the charisma. I kind of feel like her window was really the 2016 election, and for whatever reason, she didn’t run then. I also just can’t get past how clueless (I know that’s being generous) she is with how incredibly offensive her comments re: possible First Nations genealogy has been. I don’t think she *means* to appear flip about a serious identity/ ethnicity/ race issue, but she does. Over and over. Maybe it’s generational. (Another reason she’s not my favorite.)

Yea I didn’t like her Town Hall answer to the questions regarding the genealogy issue. It made me uncomfortable. It’s a shame and I hope that it can be turned around.

[dc2london]

Terry McAuliffe has decided not to run.
(I'm glad).

[Minerva]

Apr 18, 2019 1:37:11 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Terry McAuliffe has decided not to run.
(I'm glad).

VA really does need his help cleaning up our mess and GOTV over the next few cycles!

[blurnette989]

Apr 18, 2019 7:58:20 GMT -6 Minerva said:

Apr 18, 2019 1:37:11 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Terry McAuliffe has decided not to run.
(I'm glad).

VA really does need his help cleaning up our mess and GOTV over the next few cycles!

He should run for governor again.

[dc2london]

Apr 18, 2019 10:16:44 GMT -6 blurnette989 said:

Apr 18, 2019 7:58:20 GMT -6 Minerva said:

VA really does need his help cleaning up our mess and GOTV over the next few cycles!

He should run for governor again.

If he does, he's going to have a pipeline problem

[blurnette989]

Apr 19, 2019 6:08:48 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Apr 18, 2019 10:16:44 GMT -6 blurnette989 said:

He should run for governor again.

If he does, he's going to have a pipeline problem

I just hope Fairfax doesn't run for governor.

[jkjacq]

Joe Biden to make his announcement on Wednesday next week.

ugh

[notblanche]

Apr 19, 2019 10:36:29 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

Joe Biden to make his announcement on Wednesday next week.

ugh

AYFKM

[roloma]

Apr 19, 2019 10:36:29 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

Joe Biden to make his announcement on Wednesday next week.

ugh

No.  Just no.

[Minerva]

Apr 19, 2019 10:36:29 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

Joe Biden to make his announcement on Wednesday next week.

ugh

Please don’t do it, Joe.

[blurnette989]

Apr 19, 2019 10:36:29 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

Joe Biden to make his announcement on Wednesday next week.

ugh

the announcement that he is financing the next book in the Obama Biden Boys mystery series? Wishful thinking?

[roloma]

Pete has 14oz coffee mugs now. It was as if someone was listening...

store.peteforamerica.com/collections/drinkware/products/pete-2020-coffee-mug

sterling

[Minerva]

NOVA people, it would make me so happy if this actually happens! Charlotte Clymer replies too.

[roloma]

PDQ, but an old friend of mine did the design for the t-shirt that Kirsten is wearing. That’s a fun bar, and I really appreciate Kirsten going and doing a shout out. I’m fairly certain she went and mentioned it last time she was here.

[doublestuf]

This is a really good article. Warren and black voters www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/elizabeth-warren-black-voters-1282642

[dc2london]

I usually like Glenn Kessler but this bit about Pence supporting conversion therapy is wilfully obtuse

[jaygee]

Apr 21, 2019 15:08:51 GMT -6 doublestuf said:

This is a really good article. Warren and black voters www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/elizabeth-warren-black-voters-1282642

This is a trend I’m seeing on twitter. And posters are surprised. Like I’m reading a lot of “wow, I’m shocked how much Warren is growing on me” from Black women.

[Uncaripswife]

Seth Moulton has made it official

[jkjacq]

Apr 22, 2019 5:39:27 GMT -6 Uncaripswife said:

Seth Moulton has made it official

But...why?

[dc2london]

Apr 22, 2019 5:39:27 GMT -6 Uncaripswife said:

Seth Moulton has made it official

.

[teatime]

Apr 21, 2019 19:18:42 GMT -6 jaygee said:

Apr 21, 2019 15:08:51 GMT -6 doublestuf said:

This is a really good article. Warren and black voters www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/elizabeth-warren-black-voters-1282642

This is a trend I’m seeing on twitter. And posters are surprised. Like I’m reading a lot of “wow, I’m shocked how much Warren is growing on me” from Black women.

I think we need to listen. I do like what she has to say a lot. A part of me thinks that since he used it last time maybe the “Pocahontas” thing will be old news. But overall I just hope she can figure out a good apology for the whole genealogy gaffe. Has she sat down with tribal leaders?

[dc2london]

Cool cool Seth just keep digging I mean talking

Moulton's opening health care take: he's the only candidate that "actually gets single payer" & wary of eliminating private insurance

This story/Moulton doesn't point out: he's talking about the VA, which is, uh, very different than Bernie's single-payer

t.co/1laqeGsRBX

[dc2london]

😒

[jaygee]

Apr 22, 2019 9:07:49 GMT -6 dc2london said:

😒

Grifter.

Seriously. He is cut from the same cloth as T. He just doesn’t surround himself with as many criminal, yes men who feed his ability to take his grift to the next level.

[jaygee]

Good, short thread on how Senator Warren is moving the ball forward on the work of BLM and activists into actual policy proposals.

[dc2london]

Apr 22, 2019 8:37:18 GMT -6 teatime said:

Apr 21, 2019 19:18:42 GMT -6 jaygee said:

This is a trend I’m seeing on twitter. And posters are surprised. Like I’m reading a lot of “wow, I’m shocked how much Warren is growing on me” from Black women.

I think we need to listen. I do like what she has to say a lot. A part of me thinks that since he used it last time maybe the “Pocahontas” thing will be old news. But overall I just hope she can figure out a good apology for the whole genealogy gaffe. Has she sat down with tribal leaders?

This is so hard for me bc Warren is so, so good at her job. And I think she deeply, genuinely cares about making America work for everyone.
But I'm leaving it up to the Native community to determine whether she has appropriately addressed and atoned for the genealogy mess.

[teatime]

Apr 22, 2019 10:23:13 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Apr 22, 2019 8:37:18 GMT -6 teatime said:

I think we need to listen. I do like what she has to say a lot. A part of me thinks that since he used it last time maybe the “Pocahontas” thing will be old news. But overall I just hope she can figure out a good apology for the whole genealogy gaffe. Has she sat down with tribal leaders?

This is so hard for me bc Warren is so, so good at her job. And I think she deeply, genuinely cares about making America work for everyone.
But I'm leaving it up to the Native community to determine whether she has appropriately addressed and atoned for the genealogy mess.

I agree. I think the last thing I saw was the condemnation of the use of a dna test to prove Native heritage so I didn’t know if I missed something.

[Bookshelves]

A Facebook acquaintance has a post about Pete.

First comment (from a dude): “I would strongly consider Bernie Sanders.” (Rambles on about Bernie like it’s 2016)

[elle]

For the love of cheese, stop trying to make Bernie Sanders happen! 🙄

[jaygee]

I like this take