2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Secure Da Bag]

Really good stuff in here about Warren and Booker does look really good for Vice President.

So basically what the Establishment is pushing is either: Biden/Harris or Warren/Booker. Exactly in that order.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

He's actually the selling the biggest pipedream of any candidate by pushing the idea that with Trump gone, Republicans in government will suddenly become decent honorable people

Well it seems to me that what he's selling is that if he's President, then Republicans will fall back to his ideology from 1992.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Right now I think she isn't taking any but plans to do during the general. Who will donate? I have no idea.

She’s not getting any money from wallstreet, she’s pissed off Google, Facebook and Amazon, so I don’t see any big money corporate donors coming her way. I’ll be interested to see who aligns with her form the business community.

 

[Pressure]

She’s not getting any money from wallstreet, she’s pissed off Google, Facebook and Amazon, so I don’t see any big money corporate donors coming her way. I’ll be interested to see who aligns with her form the business community.

If they wanted to torpedo her they'd give her their backing

 

[No1]

I'm pretty sure centrists are riding with Butti and Biden. No need spin up Warren conspiracy theories.

I don't think there are any conspiracy theories. It's just watching people who shytted on the entire left platform in 2016 that are giving props to Warren. People who said that african-americans didn't vote for Bernie because they were "realistic" are now writing articles asking black women to give Elizabeth Warren a second look. It's noticeable. It's also strange because in order for Warren to win, she would have to siphon off the youth vote from Sanders. The same youth that were so young and dumb four years ago. The same young people that she is more popular with than any other demographic.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

apnews.com
Warren building unlikely connection with black female voters
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK
5-6 minutes
HOUSTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren was the last of eight presidential candidates to take the stage at Texas Southern University last month when she was pressed for a solution to black women dying during childbirth at far higher rates than white women.

The Massachusetts senator responded with what has become a campaign catchphrase: “So, I got a plan.” She proposed holding hospitals financially responsible for the disparity, imposing penalties on institutions that don’t act to prevent such deaths.

“Doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way that they hear the same things from white women,” she said. “We’ve got to change that, and we’ve got to do it fast because people’s lives are at stake.”

By the time Warren left the stage at the “She the People” forum, thousands of black women in the audience were on their feet roaring cheers and applauding. The reaction eclipsed the response earlier in the day to Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey — the black candidates in the Democratic contest. It reflected the unlikely traction that Warren, a 69-year-old white woman who lives in tony Cambridge, Massachusetts, is gaining with black women who are debating whom to back in a historically diverse primary.

“To have an ally — she’s a woman, but she’s not a black woman — who can speak intelligently and has thought about people who don’t look like you, that resonates,” said Roxy D. Hall Williamson, a 49-year-old who was in the audience. “She stole the show to me.”

Since her appearance in Houston, Warren published an op-ed further detailing her maternal mortality plan in Essence, the country’s only magazine for black women with a circulation of more than 1 million. She wrote another piece on the significance of historically black colleges for Blavity, a popular website aimed at black millennials.

At this early stage, many black women are undecided about whom they will support. Following Harris’ January campaign launch, there was considerable excitement around her as the sole black woman in the race.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is also winning the attention of some black female voters because of his service to Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president.

In Warren, some black women say they see kinship in a candidate who talks with substance and specificity about problems and solutions.

“We are used to doing our homework and having to show up,” said Heather McGhee, the former president of the progressive think tank Demos. She said several of Warren’s marquee issues — housing, child care and student debt — are ones that disproportionately affect black women.

After a rocky start, Warren’s campaign has stabilized in recent weeks, driven by an aggressive policy agenda that sometimes forces her rivals to take stands on such issues as breaking up massive tech firms and impeaching President Donald Trump. But she still lags Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the polls.

But strong connections with black women could help buttress her campaign. Black women are a crucial voting bloc in South Carolina, home to the South’s first primary, and in the contests that will follow in delegate-rich states throughout the South. That’s why Harris, Booker, Biden and Sanders are also feverishly competing for their support.

Warren has stumbled on racial issues, most notably when she was derided as racially insensitive for using a DNA test to address her past claims to Native American heritage.

But she has sought to put issues of race and class at the center of her campaign. Before announcing her candidacy, she gave the commencement address at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore, focusing on economic disparities. On the campaign trail, she has already appeared at three HBCUs: at a town hall in March at Jackson State University in Mississippi; at Allen University in South Carolina to tout her plans around student debt and a $50 billion investment in black colleges; and at Texas Southern University for “She the People.”

Black women play key roles in Warren’s campaign, including several seasoned Democratic Party operatives such as political director and senior adviser Rebecca Pearcey, African American outreach director D’shawna Bernard and consultant LaToia Jones.

Alexandria McMullen, a 30-year-old black woman, voted for Sanders in 2016 but said she’s now supporting Warren because of her outreach to African Americans. She was among 80 people who attended a recent event with Warren in Philadelphia and said few other white candidates have been able to talk as convincingly about race.

“She’s genuine,” McMullen said.

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Whack is The Associated Press’ national writer on race and ethnicity. Follow her work on Twitter at Errin Haines Whack (@emarvelous) on Twitter .

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This story has been corrected to show the investment figure is $50 billion, not million.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I don't think there are any conspiracy theories. It's just watching people who shytted on the entire left platform in 2016 that are giving props to Warren. People who said that african-americans didn't vote for Bernie because they were "realistic" are now writing articles asking black women to give Elizabeth Warren a second look. It's noticeable. It's also strange because in order for Warren to win, she would have to siphon off the youth vote from Sanders. The same youth that were so young and dumb four years ago. The same young people that she is more popular with than any other demographic.

Yeah, it is eyebrow raising when a guy like Nap backs her. lol

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Yeah, it is eyebrow raising when a guy like Nap backs her. lol

EXACTLY. And right after that was said, the paid shill spams an article about Warren and black women.

It's transparent and they want to gaslight us about it.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Yeah, it is eyebrow raising when a guy like Nap backs her. lol

EXACTLY. And right after that was said, the paid shill spams an article about Warren and black women.

It's transparent and they want to gaslight us about it.

:laughatpeasantry:

That's not why Nap is on her clit.

He's trying, bless his heart, to convince everyone that we should vote for Warren instead of Sanders. Then after he feels he has completed that task, he'll move on to say that Warren can't win so we should vote for Biden or Harris. The whole thing is a failed, thinly-veiled smokescreen for his anti-Bernie stalkering. (yes, stalkering)

 

[wtfyomom]

I don't think there are any conspiracy theories. It's just watching people who shytted on the entire left platform in 2016 that are giving props to Warren. People who said that african-americans didn't vote for Bernie because they were "realistic" are now writing articles asking black women to give Elizabeth Warren a second look. It's noticeable. It's also strange because in order for Warren to win, she would have to siphon off the youth vote from Sanders. The same youth that were so young and dumb four years ago. The same young people that she is more popular with than any other demographic.

exactly what bothers me, theres NO WAY I believe any centrist wants Warren, its such a farce.

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

exactly what bothers me, theres NO WAY I believe any centrist wants Warren, its such a farce.

Just say y’all voting for trump if your candidate doesn’t get nominated already

@Atlrocafella @Berniewood Hogan yall calling people shills but y’all in here shilling for Biden and Bernie. Holy shyt are they paying yall nikkas?

 

[Pressure]

I talk about this a lot. But low turnout gives you bad candidates and bad representatives.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Just say y’all voting for trump if your candidate doesn’t get nominated already

@Atlrocafella @Berniewood Hogan yall calling people shills but y’all in here shilling for Biden and Bernie. Holy shyt are they paying yall nikkas?

the only person i'm calling a shill is nap. dude is on here every waking moment of his life, spamming the hell out of whatever vox or huffpo has deemed the message of the day.

if warren is more progressive than bernie, then why would nap, a bootlicker, support her?

beto flopped, booty guy couldn't cut it, kamala deflated, booker never even got off the starting line. none of the donor class's previous plans to knock bernie out worked. they knew biden would surge early based on name recognition and being near obama physically despite being far as fukk from him on his voting record, but they were hoping to solve the bernie problem quickly.

so they're attempting to push warren, hoping she'll leach big bern's support, and then they'll drop her like a hot rock once that either works or does not. watch.




Joe Biden has a long history of racism, voting along with fascists, and he likes to molest women and children. He won't be the nominee.

Bernie Sanders will be.

Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the united states of america.

And if you have a problem with that, you're an antisemite.

 

[Pressure]

When reality sets in, but you don't quite get the message:

Courting republicans is a waste of time.

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

the only person i'm calling a shill is nap. dude is on here every waking moment of his life, spamming the hell out of whatever vox or huffpo has deemed the message of the day.

if warren is more progressive than bernie, then why would nap, a bootlicker, support her?

beto flopped, booty guy couldn't cut it, kamala deflated, booker never even got off the starting line. none of the donor class's previous plans to knock bernie out worked. they knew biden would surge early based on name recognition and being near obama physically despite being far as fukk from him on his voting record, but they were hoping to solve the bernie problem quickly.

so they're attempting to push warren, hoping she'll leach big bern's support, and then they'll drop her like a hot rock once that either works or does not. watch.




Joe Biden has a long history of racism, voting along with fascists, and he likes to molest women and children. He won't be the nominee.

Bernie Sanders will be.

Bernie Sanders will be the next president of the united states of america.

And if you have a problem with that, you're an antisemite.

So you’re basing Your vote for Warren on naps opinion of her?