The 2020 Presidential Election Primary Thread

[creekster]

Heh. 8 months in advance of the election and already you and many others in this thread *cough* SeattleUte creekster JL mbn *cough* are pre-justifying their vote for Trump, because "Bernie is that bad" or some other such bullshit.

Just sack up and own it. You were going to vote for Trump's re-election all along.

Bernie/Tulsi 2020!

My vote doesn't matter because the golden state of california. But I will not vote for Bernie. Nor will I vote for Trump. I will sit it out or go third party or write in or something.

[myboynoah]

Heh. 8 months in advance of the election and already you and many others in this thread *cough* SeattleUte creekster JL mbn *cough* are pre-justifying their vote for Trump, because "Bernie is that bad" or some other such bullshit.

Just sack up and own it. You were going to vote for Trump's re-election all along.

Bernie/Tulsi 2020!

Write in Mitt!!!

[BigFatMeanie]

Candidates I will never cast a vote for under any circumstances:

Trump
Warren
Sanders

Candidates I would likely vote for if they win the Dem nomination:

Bloomberg

Candidates I would give some consideration to voting for if they win the Dem nomination (in no particular order):

Buttigieg
Klobuchar
Biden

All other Dem candidates still in the race have zero shot of getting the nomination so it's not worth considering them.

[LVAllen]

Write in Mitt!!!

Ann Romney!

[frank ryan]

Write in Mitt!!!

Mitt would be great and I would vote for him if he could win, but I’m voting for the democrat because they are not an asset for an adversarial government.

[swampfrog]

As if Russia "meddling" wasn't messy enough in 2016.

Sanders told Russia is trying to help his campaign

And what they are doing, by the way, the ugly thing that they are doing, and I've seen some of their tweets and stuff, is they try to divide us up. That's what they did in 2016 and that is the ugliest thing they are doing -- is they are trying to cause chaos, they are trying to cause hatred in America. It's an ugly business and all of us have got to say, sorry, you're not going to do this in this election and again, as President of the United States, Mr. Putin, you will not interfere in our elections.

What exactly is being proposed here? You've seen the tweets and "stuff", are you going to stop them from tweeting?

[Pelado]

Haha. I promise you that will never happen. I will either vote D or throw away my vote on some 3rd party candidate.

[SeattleUte]

Is it correlation or causation that as Sanders is surging toward the nomination, Trump is surging too? Trump's numbers are better than ever, literally days after being acquitted in the impeachment trial. Biggest news is that the Quinnipiac poll out just yesterday has Trump 7-11 points ahead of all democrats in Wisconsin. If Sanders is nominated, Democrats will be conceding Florida. Floridians of Cuban ancestry almost to a person won't vote for lifelong Communist and admirer of Castro. Retireds who lived through the Cold War, about the same, especially those who are pro-Israel. Conceding Florida is like cutting your hand off before a fight. If Trump has Wisconsin and Florida secured, that's ballgame, to say nothing about what that portends about the other swing states and states newly in play. For a preview of what appears to be happening, see Johnson vs. Corbyn.

The woke and socialists should be careful what they wish for. If Trump wins a landslide popular vote and 39-44 states vs. Sanders, that's the end of woke and socialist movements.

[wapiti]

Is it correlation or causation that as Sanders is surging toward the nomination, Trump is surging too? Trump's numbers are better than ever, literally days after being acquitted in the impeachment trial. Biggest news is that the Quinnipiac poll out just yesterday has Trump 7-11 points ahead of all democrats in Wisconsin. If Sanders is nominated, Democrats will be conceding Florida. Floridians of Cuban ancestry almost to a person won't vote for lifelong Communist and admirer of Castro. Retireds who lived through the Cold War, about the same, especially those who are pro-Israel. Conceding Florida is like cutting your hand off before a fight. If Trump has Wisconsin and Florida secured, that's ballgame, to say nothing about what that portends about the other swing states and states newly in play. For a preview of what appears to be happening, see Johnson vs. Corbyn.

The woke and socialists should be careful what they wish for. If Trump wins a landslide popular vote and 39-44 states vs. Sanders, that's the end of woke and socialist movements.

I've always thought it would be near impossible for Trump to win the popular vote with the margins he's likely to lose by in places like California and New York along with slimming margins in Texas. But Sanders opens up that possibility. We definitely do not need President Trump with a strong mandate.

[Uncle Ted]

As if Russia "meddling" wasn't messy enough in 2016.

Sanders told Russia is trying to help his campaign



What exactly is being proposed here? You've seen the tweets and "stuff", are you going to stop them from tweeting?

Is it correlation or causation that as Sanders is surging toward the nomination, Trump is surging too? Trump's numbers are better than ever, literally days after being acquitted in the impeachment trial. Biggest news is that the Quinnipiac poll out just yesterday has Trump 7-11 points ahead of all democrats in Wisconsin. If Sanders is nominated, Democrats will be conceding Florida. Floridians of Cuban ancestry almost to a person won't vote for lifelong Communist and admirer of Castro. Retireds who lived through the Cold War, about the same, especially those who are pro-Israel. Conceding Florida is like cutting your hand off before a fight. If Trump has Wisconsin and Florida secured, that's ballgame, to say nothing about what that portends about the other swing states and states newly in play. For a preview of what appears to be happening, see Johnson vs. Corbyn.

The woke and socialists should be careful what they wish for. If Trump wins a landslide popular vote and 39-44 states vs. Sanders, that's the end of woke and socialist movements.

Don't worry SU... The DNC has an "insurance policy" for stopping Sanders: play the "he is a Russian agent/asset" card. The fix is in!

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Of course, he might actually be a Russian agent. Why else would he have spent his honeymoon in Russia? Drumpf needs to pull an Obama and wiretap his three houses and campaign headquarters now!

[Uncle Ted]

LOL@Joe... The old Joe Biden is back!

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This reminds me how he use to lie about his participation in the civil rights protests and would plagiarize his speeches, etc. all the time. I love the old Joe.

[Uncle Ted]

Write in Mitt!!!

You may not need to write in Mitt. If Bloomberg wins the Dems nomination I am guessing Mitt will be his running mate... They are like two peas in a pod:

Are Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney the same candidate?
[...]
But Bloomberg and Romney have much more in common than try-hard jokes. Their underlying pitches — and their challenges — are nearly identical.

Both are smart, wealthy men who made fortunes in ways many Americans don’t understand. Both believe they deserve their wealth. (“Yes,” Bloomberg said flatly when asked as much during Wednesday’s debate.) Both parlayed that success into winning elections as moderate problem solvers in deeply blue areas.

Both have tried to run for president by creating an air of inevitability, via an unremitting flow of money. In the 2008 race, Romney massively outspent his rivals in Iowa — in one instance, at the non-binding Iowa straw poll, he provided voters luxuries such as free barbecue and golf cart rides. On top of his pervasive national advertising, Bloomberg pays his staff huge salaries and furnishes his rally attendees with catered buffets. (If you can’t appeal to voters’ hearts, you appeal to their heads or, if it comes down to it, their literal guts.)

And, like Romney, Bloomberg tries to fit in with his party. Both men made convenient shifts on policy in order to pursue the presidency — Romney against abortion and health-care reform, Bloomberg reversing his support for the stop-and-frisk policing he defended during his time as mayor — but neither developed persuasive explanations. Instead, the pandering was so transparent it clarified the implied appeal: Just let me be the manager; I’m not an inspiring reformer, but I can run a railroad.

The root pitch for both candidates is that they are the careful, competent, electable guys. Romney advertised how he saved the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and built up businesses such as Staples and Sports Authority. On Thursday in Salt Lake, the words “common sense” appeared three times in Bloomberg’s short speech.
[...]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ame-candidate/

They would be the dream team and may be the Dems last hope in defeating Drumpf!

[beefytee]

I wonder if Bloomberg jumping into the race only helps Sanders. One more moderate to split the vote and let Sanders glide to the nomination. Had Bloomberg not been at the debate this week, most of the fire would have been directed at Sanders as the frontrunner. Instead most of the time was spent trying to discredit Bloomberg.

[wapiti]

I wonder if Bloomberg jumping into the race only helps Sanders. One more moderate to split the vote and let Sanders glide to the nomination. Had Bloomberg not been at the debate this week, most of the fire would have been directed at Sanders as the frontrunner. Instead most of the time was spent trying to discredit Bloomberg.

Joining any debate before Super Tuesday was a huge mistake by Bloomberg. The other candidates have been debating for 8 months, there is nothing fresh for the them to say to each other. Bloomberg jumped right into a hornets nest.

[Walter Sobchak]

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