2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races
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that primary is going to be a very polite race war.
Pull Up the Roots
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OfTheCross
Veteran
RBG can only last so long folks.
As long as Biden can stay alert during debates for an hour, do a stump speech for 15 minutes on the trail, and speak coherently on cable news we'll probably be okay. Surely
Rashida has a big war chest, incumbency, name recognition and high visibility being a lifetime resident of the district.
Brenda is not going to have the institutional support she had in 2018. And she is also not a good fundraiser.
If you're going to beat Rashida, you should have started months ago raising close to $1M. At this rate, Rashida will raise another half million to a million on top of her $1.2M on hand.
Secure Da Bag
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Why do we want Tlaib to be primaried? She's actually doing a great job.
She potentially just told ADOS how to pay for reparations without anyone --technically-- having to bytch about "paying for it".
She potentially just told ADOS how to pay for reparations without anyone --technically-- having to bytch about "paying for it".
OfTheCross
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The Dem party doesn't want Progressives maybe
The Dem party doesn't want Progressives maybe
From the article I posted. Good snippets:
Establishment Democrats in Detroit are unlikely to mount a concerted challenge to her.
“Conventional wisdom would have it that it’s more than likely that she would be challenged,” said Jonathan Kinloch, who chairs the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Committee that Tlaib represents. “But there is no way in the world that the (group) won’t endorse the sitting member of Congress. She’s given us no reason not to stand with her. She’s only shown courage and commitment. … There is no reason why we wouldn’t support our sitting congresswoman.“
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Eddie McDonald, a veteran political consultant in Detroit, said if someone does take her on, she won't be a pushover.
“She’s never quit campaigning. I mean she’s out, she’s got a good constituent ground game, she’s here every weekend,” he said. “And the harder Trump goes at her, the stronger her support will become.”
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When she referred to Trump as a “mother-f----r,” in January, she noted that using that word in Detroit, where she grew up in the southwest, wasn’t quite as uncommon as maybe it is in the halls of Congress. And if you hear her talk about the legislation she’s pushing — to improve access to affordable auto insurance, say — you hear about Detroit.
When she doesn’t have votes in Washington, she says, she’s back at home, with her two young sons.
She reminds people in the nation's capital, often, that she's fighting for one of the most impoverished congressional districts in the nation.
And in late July, when politicians were lining up around the Fox Theatre for interviews on CNN at the time of the Democratic debate, a Free Press reporter, saying hi to her, got only a quick wave, as she talked intensely to a man on Woodward Avenue. She later told the reporter that she knew the man, that he has a mental illness. “He feels like he's being followed sometimes,” she said. “And I was worried he's not on his medication.”
So, if you’re going to run against Tlaib, that’s what you’re going to be running against — those kind of stories, that kind of activism. A campaign machine that can potentially raise millions, and a candidate who believes fervently on the power of knocking on doors and leading civic causes. One who has opened four neighborhood centers across the district to help get services to constituents and who regularly attends local political and neighborhood meetings.
the next guy
Superstar
Would help if Biden didn't go ghost for a week. The man has made so many self inflicted errors imo.
I don’t get the infighting between progressives and moderates as long as we picking up seats all over the map. It’s good to have different perspectives in one party.
Armchair Militant
Stay woke
Many progressives don’t view it that way. If they don’t take over the party, they’re not gonna get their agenda passed.
B. Pumpaveli
All Star
And Hillary lost, did she not? So maybe it's time to finally consider those peoples opinion on her at the time weren't wrong.
Make the same mistake again this year with Joe Biden brehs
These stupid fukks in here who hate progressives for literally trying to achieve progressive shyt hate her because she dares to give a fukk. She actually stands for something besides just not being Trump which they hate because they really don’t believe in a goddamn thing except empty platitudes. Absolute cowards. Most of the people here fukking suck.
Seriously imagine knowing what Tlaib has done for her community and what she stands for and thinking its a good idea to primary her. If you think that you’re a shytty person and you fukking suck. If you want to primary her because she DARED to boo queen Hillary, you fukking suck and you stand for goddamn nothing.
The only perspective that matters is mine
and if you disagree with me you are evil So you see it too huh. Some of us are trying to get trump out to save our unborn kids and grandkids. Others are willing to have him stay to be “right.”
AnonymityX1000
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Are people saying they hope Biden loses or just making a prediction? And no need for the dramatics, Trump is not going to single-handedly kill your kids/grandkids and Biden definitely isn't going to save them.The only perspective that matters is mine
So you see it too huh. Some of us are trying to get trump out to save our unborn kids and grandkids. Others are willing to have him stay to be “right.”
Seems like there are enough disingenuous comments from both sides.