2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races
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Pull Up the Roots
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Here's random post from "Garbage Ape."
That's who we should be listening to. Garbage Ape 4 Pres 2024.
Bloomberg gives $2 million to boost black voter registration efforts
Less than a week after leaving the presidential race, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg gave an additional $2 million to register 500,000 black voters before the November election.
The donation announced Monday, which follows $15 million voter registration commitment he made last year, will go to Collective Future, a nonprofit arm of the Collective, a political action committee that supports black candidates nationwide.
The money will be spent to hire more than 30 field organizers and 96 “field fellows” through local community organizations in eight states, including the presidential swing states of Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina, said Collective President Quentin James. The program will also register voters in South Carolina, Texas, Georgia and Alabama.
“Some people may still have issues around his record as mayor or whatever the issue is, but for us this is bigger than some of the personal opinions,” James said Monday. “This is about power in our community. And unfortunately we have been stripped of that.”
The billionaires who self-funded their 2020 runs | Campaign Money
The Post's Michelle Ye Hee Lee explains how billionaires like Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer changed the game as Democratic presidential candidates in 2020. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
Bloomberg previously announced a $5 million contribution to a voter protection initiative run by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D). He is also setting up a new independent political organization to absorb his campaign staff in six swing states, so they can support Democrats in the general election. That group will probably serve as a vehicle for advertising to support Democrats this year.
“Voter suppression efforts across the country have been a barely disguised effort to keep Black Americans and other Democratic-leaning voters from the polls,” Bloomberg said in statement Monday. “I‘ve always believed we need to make it easier for all citizens to register and vote, not harder.”
James said the Bloomberg money would be focused on building partnerships with local organizations, like historically black colleges and black churches, to get more people to register. He praised Bloomberg for not taking any time off after announcing the end of his campaign Wednesday.
“I think what’s amazing is he hasn’t taken a beat,” James said. “He could have taken a week, he could have taken a couple of weeks off.”
fukk that. It’s Bloomberg. I say let the black voters stay unregistered
I wish it was Sanders vs Warren as the last two.
That being said, let me ask a question I know won't get answered.
How can you criticize Sanders' campaign daily, but suck off Warren who's campaign was a complete failure compared to Sanders?
Define “failure?”
mind you, I don’t personally respect the will of the people. I tend to think I know what’s better for most people than what voters en masse conclude.
I believe warren was the best candidate for president and her not getting votes doesn’t suggest otherwise.
additionally when people could rank their favorites they often ranked warren higher but people feared if she could beat trump and fell back to Biden.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
what warren supporter has touted warren's campaign as more successful? i'll speak for myself and say she was the better candidate to get behind IMO, but no, her campaign wasn't as successful due to:
1) coming into 2020 with less name ID than biden and bernie
2) bernie carrying most the working class progressive vote with him from 2016
3) coming into the 2020 cycle with the handicap of being a woman
4) the flogging she took from bernie supporters and centrists during the m4a discussion
her supporters here have also criticized or critiqued the bad moves her campaign made. so i'm not sure why it's hard to understand that both of the following can be true: people thinking warren is a great candidate who ran a not so great campaign.
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intra vires
Glory to Michigan
So I watched that Hillary doc on hulu the other night... If you ever want to see what happens when the White House writes and attempts to ram legislation through Congress, then read up on the 93 healthcare bill.
Mine isn't and I'm still voting for her. Biden is posed to comfortably beat Sanders in here so it really doesn't matter who I vote for. This is my last presidential primary here, I may as well go out the way I want to.
Btw, I'm glad you appear to be right about Warren and her "well moisturized hands"
Mine isn't and I'm still voting for her. Biden is posed to comfortably beat Sanders in here so it really doesn't matter who I vote for. This is my last presidential primary here, I may as well go out the way I want to.
Btw, I'm glad you appear to be right about Warren and her "well moisturized hands"
The progressive left also needs a leader that's not a socialist. Without that label Bernie would be president.
He is fukking Rosario Dawson. He is under manners
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
brehs in there turned against their own progressive organizations...and got the nerve to say they're not bernie above progressivism. 