2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[the next guy]

 

[FAH1223]

good tweets, especially that last one.

On a side note, did you see Stoller semi-beefing with Stephanie Kelton recently?

felt like watching mom and dad fighting

I peeped it. Stoller went at her out of nowhere lol

Also, Yang is outpolling Beto and Buttigieg in some of these recent polls and CNN blatantly not putting him up there

 

[Hood Critic]

Bruh. What? She’s not even in office.

I hate this trend of losers aiming for high office. Meanwhile all state and local governments are filled with republicans.

This is arrogance and laziness.

She has a little over 4 years to increase her profile, she has a platform already and I am almost certain she ends up in a cabinet position in a potential upcoming Democrat administration. I think she's more much qualified and in a better position to run for high office versus a Beto or Buttigieg.

EDIT: I would agree with you if she was trying to hop into 2020.

 

[John Reena]

If democrats don't win the Senate Sanders and to an extent Warren aren't pushing through their most ambitious parts of their platform. Furthermore it suggests the country isn't as far left as some of you like to believe.

They delusional. No way Warren or Bernie’s “plans” gonna actually get implemented in real life. They selling ppl dreams.

 

[John Reena]

at Chris Matthews on Monday reacting to that fugazi Monmouth poll showing Biden trailing Warren and Bernie acting like the campaign is now in trouble, only to flip the next day saying that poll was an outlier and Biden is still in a commanding lead.

#BidenBoyz2020 will not lose this no matter what.

Biden Boyz 2020

 

[afterlife2009]

Biden Boyz made that call?

 

[the next guy]

What do the 1000 or so seats lost while a black man and woman were in control of the party suggest then?

Beyond Weak...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

She has a little over 4 years to increase her profile, she has a platform already and I am almost certain she ends up in a cabinet position in a potential upcoming Democrat administration. I think she's more much qualified and in a better position to run for high office versus a Beto or Buttigieg.

EDIT: I would agree with you if she was trying to hop into 2020.

She was a state representative running for senate. Now she’s a presidential candidate? What? Why? Cause she almost won as a senator? She’s a black woman? What?

I mean come on. We gotta actually WIN first.

I mean Obama did what he was supposed to do in his rise to the top. Now all these new age candidates just trying to leap frog shyt instead of taking the lay up.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Biden Boyz made that call?

Bum ass pollsters knew that shyt was Flawed, they just wanted to make the news cycle by trying to bring OG Joe down, but they got called out on their shyt, and rightfully so

 

[storyteller]

What do the 1000 or so seats lost while a black man and woman were in control of the party suggest then?

Damn breh THAT was your take away from the failures of the past decade from the Dems!? I took it to mean they employed bad strategy and needed bolder policy

The successful rise of Bernie, Warren and the Squad into prominent roles in the party is supporting evidence on my part. There's also this

She predicted the "blue wave" perfectly. So what about 2020?

But on July 1, 2018 — preceding all this cautious uncertainty — newcomer Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director of the Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, released her prediction of a 42-seat "blue wave," while also citing the Arizona and Texas U.S. Senate races as “toss-ups.” Her startling prediction was numerically close to perfect; Democrats will end up with a gain of 40 or 41 seats, depending how the re-run in North Carolina's 9th district turns out. (Democrat Kyrsten Sinema won the Arizona Senate race, in a major historical shift, and Beto O'Rourke came close in Texas.) Furthermore, she even strutted a little, writing on Nov. 2 that she hadn't adjusted her seat count, but that “the last few months have been about filling in the blanks on which specific seats will flip.” Her resulting list of those was also close to perfect.

With a record like that, you’d think that Bitecofer's explanation of what happened would have drawn universal attention and become common sense — but you’d be sadly mistaken. She’s barely beginning to get the recognition she deserves, and more troubling for the country, the outdated assumptions her model dispensed with continue to cloud the thinking of pundits and Democratic Party leadership alike. (Follow her on Twitter here.)

This hampers efforts to counter Donald Trump’s destructive impact on a daily basis, and spreads confusion about both Democratic prospects and strategy in the 2020 election prospects. Above all, the mistaken belief that Democrats won in 2018 by gaining Republican support (aka winning back "Trump voters") fuels an illusory search for an ill-defined middle ground that could actually demobilize the Democratic leaners and voters who actually drove last year's blue wave.

 

[dtownreppin214]

Bruh. What? She’s not even in office.

I hate this trend of losers aiming for high office. Meanwhile all state and local governments are filled with republicans.

This is arrogance and laziness.

yeah i'm kinda at this. i know the senate has been emasculated and being locked in there for 6 years isn't attractive to pols with a lot of ambition, but GA needs her to win one of theses spots. that state is too black and trump is too unpopular to not get in NOW.

 

[Hood Critic]

She was a state representative running for senate. Now she’s a presidential candidate? What? Why? Cause she almost won as a senator? She’s a black woman? What?

Because she is intelligent, nuanced, has an established platform in regards to voter rights/voter suppression, is an effective communicator, has a good story, has no corporate or big money ties, is building her brand and name recognition through grass roots means and most importantly, has a track record of not only listening to but appealing to the other side in a southern state of all places. The fact that there are multiple female candidates, one of whom is in the top 3, means her potential nomination wouldn't be marred by "is the country ready for a female president" rhetoric, hell we don't even ask that question now.

So my question to you, is why not?

 

[FAH1223]

 

[dtownreppin214]

@FAH1223 maybe I gave the media too much credit. NYT/WaPo/Axios reporters out here getting ratio'd for caping for Breibart.

 

[Hood Critic]