Speaking of undesirable endorsements, I see that Marianne Williamson has endorsed Andrew Yang. I can't see how that helps. barfo
The best thing Hillary could do is leave the dem party, join the republican party, then run for President.
That would be fun. Too bad she's missed filing deadlines already, and the Republicans have cancelled many primaries also. barfo
Biden takes heat after sparring with Iowa voter who challenged him on climate change By Adam Shaw | Fox News Joe Biden came under fire Tuesday from 2020 rival Tom Steyer after a video surfaced of him telling a man in Iowa to “go vote for someone else” when the man challenged him on his energy policies in the Hawkeye State. The man, identified as Ed Fallon, took the opportunity during Biden's appearance at a campaign event to grill him on energy policies. "I'm going to support you if you win the nomination because we've got to get rid of Trump. What are we going to do about climate change?" asked Fallon, a former state legislator. “Now you say you’re against pipelines but then you want to replace these gas lines... We have got to stop building and replacing pipelines." “No no no... go vote for someone else,” Biden said while patting him on the chest. "You’re not going to vote for me in the primary.” “I’m going to vote for you in the general if you treat me right,” Fallon said. “Look, you’re asking for a picture of me, coming up and telling me you don’t support me,” Biden said, to which Fallon disagreed, saying he’d back him in the general. “I’m looking for a primary, caucus [vote],” Biden told Fallon, who said he's supporting Steyer in the caucuses next week. Fallon then asked for a picture, to which Biden said no. The exchange went viral online after video from journalist Zaid Jilani surfaced, and it soon brought criticism from Steyer, who said it was “no way to treat an Iowan.” “He said he'd vote for the Dem in the general [because] he knows how important it is to beat Trump,” Steyer tweeted Tuesday. We need immediate action on climate. If you don't agree, happy to talk @ debate.” “But don't take it out on voters we need to win in [November],” he added. Fallon, meanwhile, took to his website, BoldIowa.com, to give his account of the interaction, where he accused Biden of not even attempting to address his concern. “What was even more shocking was how Biden pushed and poked me, and then took hold of my jacket with both hands as he lectured me,” he wrote. “I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it one more time: Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate LEAST likely to beat Donald Trump,” Fallon wrote. “His demeanor on the stump will inevitably come back to bite him, perhaps repeatedly." The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
The Republican convention is very unlikely to be contested, unless Trump is removed from office. barfo
2020 Presidential Race Update Who's running, who's not, and what to expect for the 2020 presidential cycle: Last updated January 28, 2020 06:26 PM EST 2020 Presidential Candidates Announced Democrat Michael Bennet U.S. Senator from Colorado Democrat Joe Biden Former Vice President Democrat Pete Buttigieg Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana Democrat Michael Bloomberg Former Mayor of New York City Democrat John Delaney Former U.S. Representative from Maryland Democrat Tulsi Gabbard U.S. Representative from Hawaii Democrat Amy Klobuchar U.S. Senator from Minnesota Democrat Deval Patrick Former Governor of Massachusetts Democrat Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from Vermont Democrat Tom Steyer Founder of Farallon Capital Management Democrat Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Democrat Andrew Yang Founder of Venture for America Republican Donald Trump U.S. President Republican Joe Walsh Radio host and former U.S. Rep. from Illinois Republican Bill Weld Former Governor of Massachusetts Considering / Rumored Independent Mark Cuban Owner of Dallas Mavericks Dropped Democrat Cory Booker U.S. Senator from New Jersey Democrat Steve Bullock Governor of Montana Democrat Julián Castro Former Sec. of Housing and Urban Development Democrat Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand U.S. Senator from New York Democrat Kamala Harris U.S. Senator from California Democrat John Hickenlooper Former Governor of Colorado Democrat Jay Inslee Governor of Washington Democrat Wayne Messam Mayor of Miramar, Florida Democrat Seth Moulton U.S. Representative from Massachusetts Democrat Beto O’Rourke Former U.S. Representative from Texas Democrat Tim Ryan U.S. Representative from Ohio Democrat Eric Swalwell U.S. Representative from California Democrat Marianne Williamson Self-help author Republican Mark Sanford Former Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Rep.
In the old days, yes. I think the Democratic convention rules on this issue have changed but I'm not sure.
shit, didn't see dviss liked my post. even if it was hard to do this guy at least admitted when he was wrong...ONCE. which is somehow ten million times more than the rest of you.
Peter Schweizer hits Elizabeth Warren for her past Washington 'swamp' tactics By Julia Musto | Fox News Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., "swamp" tactics in her career in politics are directly contradictory to her current criticism of other candidates, author Peter Schweizer said Tuesday. Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, Schweizer said that in his book "Profile in Corruption," which investigates 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, the apparent problem in Washington D.C. is the temptation to "cut corners." "But also, people that are alleged reformers like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders also engage in this kind of behavior," he explained. Schweizer said that there are multiple levels to Warren's questionable practices including that she made millions of dollars in the 1990s. "In the 1990s she was hired by Congress as a consultant – paid by us, taxpayers – to reform bankruptcy laws, to actually write bankruptcy laws as it revolved around corporations and major torts: class action lawsuits," he said. "While she was still a consultant, and after, she started taking on corporate clients who were paying her the equivalent of $1,000 an hour to help them navigate the law that she was writing." "I mean, it's the classic Washington swamp maneuver, by the way, that she's criticized other people for," Schweizer remarked. Additionally, according to Schweizer, Warren's daughter was reportedly setting up a business called BTG (Business Talent Group) at the same time that Warren led the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) oversight committee which was "bailing out big Wall Street firms." "Elizabeth Warren takes her daughter to meetings involving TARP with Senator Reid and while Elizabeth Warren is helping to bail out large financial investment firms, the daughter is raising money and signing up advisers from those same firms that are being bailed out for her new business," he remarked. Like Warren, Schweizer writes in a new Fox News op-ed that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been a "loud and constant voice for socialist policies throughout his 30 years in Washington, D.C., a self-proclaimed champion of the collective good." However, Schweizer writes he discovered that while Sanders may talk about the common good, his public service "has made him and his family quite wealthy." Sanders' wife, Jane Driscoll, was appointed to several positions of influence within his administration. After the pair were married in 1988, she received a big pay increase. " After Bernie won election to Congress in 1990, Jane’s business ties to her husband rose to a new level," he explained. "In Washington, Jane became one of her husband’s top aides, serving at various times as his chief of staff, press secretary, and political analyst." Schweizer wrote that after a decade in Congress, Jane and the Sanders family set up a company that operated under three different names to provide income tied to Bernie’s political career. "These entities served as financial conduits to run cash to the Sanders family," he added. "Even when Jane got a job not working for Bernie, it still seemed to be connected to his political position." The New York Times has labeled these stories and more as "building blocks for scandals."
Hillary Clinton ‘intimidated’ by Tulsi Gabbard's $50M lawsuit, won’t accept legal documents, lawyer claims: report By Dom Calicchio | Fox News Hillary Clinton or her representatives have, on at least two occasions, declined to accept legal papers delivered in connection with Tulsi Gabbard’s lawsuit against her, Gabbard’s attorney claims. Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who is seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Clinton last week over the former secretary of state’s insinuation that Gabbard was a “Russian asset.” Brian Dunne, an attorney representing Gabbard, told the New York Post that Secret Service agents turned away a process server Tuesday when the server tried to deliver the lawsuit to Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., north of New York City. Dunne said the server was instructed instead to deliver the papers to the Washington office of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, but Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, also declined to accept the legal papers, according to the Post. “I find it rather unbelievable that Hillary Clinton is so intimidated by Tulsi Gabbard that she won’t accept service of process,” Dunne told the newspaper. “But I guess here we are.” Dunne told the paper his team is considering what steps to take next. During a Jan. 23 appearance on "Fox & Friends," Gabbard accused Clinton of using “smear tactics” against her in an attempt to suppress her freedom of speech. “I have dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country,” said Gabbard, 38, a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard who served in Iraq before being elected to Congress in 2012, “and for Hillary Clinton and her powerful allies to attempt to smear me and accuse me -- really implying that I'm a traitor to the country that I love -- is something that I cannot allow to go unchecked." Clinton had said in an October 2019 interview that one of the Democratic presidential candidates was “the favorite of the Russians” and was being groomed as a third-party candidate for the 2020 general election in November. Clinton never mentioned Gabbard by name, but when asked to confirm whether the former first lady was referring to Gabbard, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill responded, “If the nesting doll fits … ” a reference to popular Russian dolls. The remarks from Clinton drew immediate pushback from Gabbard on Oct. 18. “Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a … concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know – it was always you, through your proxies and … powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly. Gabbard’s camp announced the lawsuit soon after the congresswoman’s Jan. 21 remarks, in which she criticized Clinton for claiming about Sen. Bernie Sanders that “nobody likes him” and that “he got nothing done” as a lawmaker. “It’s time to grow up, you know? This isn’t high school,” Gabbard told WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., referring to the Clinton comments. Gabbard had supported Sanders in the 2016 race, and visited a Sanders campaign office in Plymouth, N.H., earlier this week in what was being viewed as a sign of dealmaking among Democratic candidates as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary draw closer, The Washington Post reported.
Gabbard already declared that she did not want to make a deal with Sanders. However, Clinton will lose any court case with Gabbard any day now.
OTTUMWA, IA—As part of his effort to reinvigorate the coalition that once put Barack Obama in the White House, presidential candidate Joe Biden issued a moving plea for party unity when he told a Democratic voter “You’re a piece of shit and I hope everyone like you dies,” reports confirmed Thursday. “Look here, pal, fuck you and fuck anybody who thinks like you,” the former vice president said to a town hall participant in what political experts have hailed as a rousing call for Democrats, independents, and even moderate Republicans to join together in harmony and overcome the divisiveness and rancor that have characterized the Trump era. “If that’s what you believe, you’re clearly an idiot, and I don’t need your vote. Seriously, you and every single person in this fucking town deserves to die. Now back the hell up before I tear your throat out with my goddamn teeth.” After the event, a screaming, red-faced Biden reportedly continued to share his inspiring vision by informing a group of unwitting Iowans that he could beat their asses with one hand tied behind his back.
