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    I'm hoping like Hell it's Gabbard, but it won't be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by perrhaps View Post
    I'm hoping like Hell it's Gabbard, but it won't be.
    Who? Never heard of her. Just ask the DNC.

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    Bernie Sanders Advisor Suggests Holding Elections While Colleges Are On Spring Break Is ‘Voter Supression’

    By Emily Zanotti - The Daily Wire




    Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) advisors are laying the groundwork for possible objections to the ultimate delegate count, suggesting on national cable news programs that entities, including various states and the Democratic party as a whole, are working to “supress” Sanders’ supporters votes.

    Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden are going head to head in three states Tuesday, Illinois, Florida, and Arizona. Ohio was slated to have a primary contest Tuesday but, after a protracted legal battle that went deep into Monday night, the state’s governor effectively postponed the contest, rescheduling the vote until the summer, when the threat of coronavirus has, hopefully, passed.

    Biden is expected to win all three contests by a substantial margin. In Florida, the former Veep leads in polls by more than 40 points. In Illinois, Biden leads by 20 points and, in some Congressional disticts, by as much as 70 points. In Arizona, Biden is likely to win by between 20 and 30 points.

    Until yesterday, Biden was also leading in Ohio. But by the time that primary surfaces yet again, he may well have snagged the 1,991 delegates he needs to secure the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

    Until a few weeks ago, Sanders’ campaign was still holding out hope that, at the very worst, they could force a brokered convention. Now, it seems, they are hoping to delegitimize Biden’s win by suggesting the DNC conspired with state parties and voting authorities to keep Sanders’ supporters from the polls.

    On Monday, Sanders adviser Phillip Agnew told CNN that holding certain primaries, including last week’s primary in Mississippi, during college spring breaks was a form of “voter suppression,” given that Bernie Sanders’ core demographic is voters under the age of 35.

    “There were a number of black colleges who were on spring break during Election Day,” Agnew said. “So we are up against rampant voter suppression efforts that are pushing young black folks out of the booth.”

    “I think across the board, the Democratic Party has a lot of work to do to make sure that young black folks and older black folks have access to the ballot box,” Agnew added. “And our campaign is proud to actually been a part of that. And it’s not just our campaign. Across the board, we got a lot of work to do.”

    The vote in Mississippi wasn’t close; Joe Biden won the state 80% to 20%. College students were certainly not the difference between a Sanders win and a Sanders loss — and holding primaries a week earlier or later probably would not have given Sanders an edge, particularly given that, across the board, Sanders’ supporters have been willing to attend rallies but less willing to cast ballots.

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) now famously made the same claim about young voters in Michigan who were “suppressed” because same-day voter registration lines at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city clerk’s offices were sometimes hours long — even though college students could have registered to vote at any time before last Tuesday’s primary.

    “I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News. “Right there, in Ann Arbor, where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan.”

    But, the Detroit News reported, Ocasio-Cortez had her story wrong.

    “The long lines were at clerks’ offices, not polling stations, multiple election officials said. At the clerks’ offices, some voters, especially in college areas, waited in line to register to vote on Election Day before casting their ballots,” a spokesperson for Michigan’s Secretary of State, Democrat Jocelyn Benson, reportedly told the paper.

    A change, which allowed for same-day registration “significantly increased the Election Day workload for local election clerks,” the spokesperson added. “Our office worked to provide them extra support, but long lines were unavoidable when, late in the day, thousands of same-day registrants simultaneously went to a handful of clerks’ offices.”

    Ann Arbor’s city clerk attacked Ocasio-Cortez’s statements directly: “That’s simply not true and to state that is misleading,” she said.”In fact, there were hardly any wait times anywhere in the city, except at city hall to register to vote.”

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    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Sanders Campaign Suspends Facebook Ads, Holding Talks With Team Biden About Coronavirus

    By Eric Quintanar - The Daily Wire




    Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may be approaching an exit to the 2020 presidential race, with reports indicating that the candidate’s senior-level staffers have been holding talks with former Vice President Joe Biden’s team.

    According to Axios, the Sanders campaign suspended Facebook ads for the self-avowed democratic socialist’s second presidential bid, which received a crushing electoral blow from the three states holding Democratic primaries on Tuesday.

    Furthermore, Kate Bedingfield, the deputy campaign manager for the Biden campaign, has informed The Washington Post that the Sanders campaign and Biden campaign “have been in regular contact at a senior level” to discuss coronavirus.

    “While the two campaigns obviously have their differences, they are working together to try to promote the health and safety of their teams, those who interact with the campaigns, and the American people,” said Bedingfield.

    The news agency also reports that Sanders did not ask supporters for donations in an email Wednesday, and that the senator has plans “to leave Washington and return home, where he and his wife, Jane, would talk to supporters and determine the future of his presidential run.”

    “Biden campaign officials have also adopted an internal policy of no longer attacking Sanders,” reports the news agency.

    According to The New York Times, Biden pushed for Democratic unity while speaking to supporters after a resounding victory in Tuesday’s voting contests, and even declared that he and Sanders, a self-avowed democratic socialist, share a “common vision” for healthcare, income inequality, and climate change.

    “Senator Sanders and his supporters have brought a remarkable passion and tenacity to all of these issues, and together, they have shifted the fundamental conversation in this country,” said Biden, reports the news agency.

    “So let me say, especially to the young voters who have been inspired by Senator Sanders: I hear you,” said Biden, reports the news agency. “I know what’s at stake. I know what we have to do. Our goal as a campaign, and my goal as a candidate for president, is to unify this party and then to unify the nation.”

    The former vice president, who has pitched his campaign as a return to normalcy, endorsed Sanders’ free college plan and Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) bankruptcy plan in a tweet thread.

    “Bernie has put forward a plan that would make public colleges and universities free for families whose income is below $125,000,” said Biden in a tweet Sunday. “It’s a good idea, and after consideration, I am proud to add it to my platform.”

    “Few people in the country understand how bankruptcy hurts working families more than Elizabeth Warren,” said Biden in a follow-up tweet. “Today, I am fully endorsing and adopting her bankruptcy plan.”

    During a bankruptcy bill hearing in 2005, then-Senator Joe Biden told Warren, who was testifying about the bill, that she was putting forward a “mildly demagogic” argument, reports NPR.

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    They're standing very close together

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    Tulsi Gabbard is done, she's suspending her campaign.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Tulsi Gabbard is done, she's suspending her campaign.
    Didn't see that coming. [/sarcasm]


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Didn't see that coming. [/sarcasm]
    Not much of a campaign when the DNC basically tells you to fuck off.

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    Democrats fret as Joe Biden becomes ‘irrelevant’ in coronavirus crisis

    By John Levine - New York Post




    Just days after his commanding primary victories in Florida, Arizona and Illinois, the coronavirus has turned former Vice President Joe Biden into a virtual prisoner of his Delaware home, where he’s reduced to sniping at President Trump from the family rec room.

    “He’s making himself irrelevant,” Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of staff to Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, told The Post, saying the virtual broadcasts were not helping. “We need action immediately, and Biden can’t do anything real right now.”

    Biden has been forced to watch from the sidelines as President Trump steals the spotlight with daily coronavirus briefings that have been a ratings smash.

    Though some experts have criticized the president for spreading inaccurate information and promoting untested antibiotics during his briefings, polls suggest Americans are increasingly pleased with his performance handling the deadly pandemic.

    The latest findings from Gallup show the president with a 49% approval rating, approaching a career high he last enjoyed in February during the height of his Senate impeachment trial. The same survey found 60% of Americans now approve of his handling of the coronavirus crisis, including more than a quarter of Democrats.

    “I think Trump is being seen as handing the pandemic well by the public even though he was too late to start procuring any [personal protective equipment],” Chakrabarti said, explaining the polling bounce, adding that Biden missed his moment to make an impression. “[Trump] is the only one going up every day and talking to the American people.”

    Sen. Bernie Sanders — whose challenge to Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is sagging — has been in D.C. helping to hammer out trillions of dollars in coronavirus relief spending. The 78-year has also held several in depth coronavirus town halls via Facebook Live.

    But Biden has gone nearly dark. Aside from a call with reporters, and a virtual live-stream appearance at a fundraiser on Sunday, the ex-vice president reappeared on television on March 24.

    And his appearances have not gone smoothly.

    On his first day back on the air, Biden sat for an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. During the brief Q&A, Biden coughed repeatedly into his fist shortly after telling the anchor he had no symptoms of coronavirus and had not been tested. At one point Tapper even scolded the vice president for not directing coughs into his elbow.

    The coughing came along with the usual Biden word salads. On “The View” that same day, the former veep told guest co-host Sara Haines that “we have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse no matter what.”

    He also had an emotional moment during a virtual CNN town hall Friday talking about personal loss and almost gave out his telephone number on live television.

    Many Democrats and armchair pundits have unflatteringly compared Biden’s performance with Gov. Cuomo, who has won praise from both sides of the aisle for his smooth command of facts, regular virus updates and tough, no-nonsense approach to defiant New Yorkers. The fervor peaked as the hashtag #PresidentCuomo zipped across Twitter last week.

    “He is currently the only Democrat showing leadership in a moment of crisis, at least publicly,” Chakrabarti said. “Cuomo is doing the daily press conference, he’s leading in a way that President Trump was.”

    Reps for Biden’s campaign declined to comment for this story.

    Though the pandemic has prevented Biden from deploying his famous retail political skills, his campaign has tried to remain active, putting out a blizzard of press statements including his own “action plan to save the economy.”

    He’s made overtures to the base even while in isolation, including checking in to DJ D-Nice’s “Club Quarantine” party on Instagram last week and making a virtual appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday.

    The campaign is also confident Trump will ultimately botch the coronavirus response.

    “Donald Trump’s failure to take this virus seriously in the face of urgent and obvious warning signs will go down as one of most incompetent and ultimately harmful decisions by a president in recent history,” a Biden aide told The Post.

    Biden continues to hold a small but enduring lead over Trump in national head-to-head polls, with recent surveys from Emerson, Monmouth and NBCNews/WSJ all showing him out front. A Fox News polls this week gave him a 9 point lead.

    Other Democrats said Trump’s 60 percent coronavirus rating should be taken with a grain of salt.

    “During the Iran Hostage crisis, Carter had a 67 approval. For a leader in a time of crisis this is a pretty crappy rating. The Bushes both had 90s at one time,” Democratic strategist James Carville told The Post. “I think Biden will win easily. I don’t think it will be particularly close.”

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    James Carville is gonna be in for a shock.


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    Ya know, it would really help him to start acting presidential. He could have easily gotten involved with his own party with the whole stimulus thing but it really seems he's happy just playing along with whatever his party is doing and sitting quietly at home wondering when he's going to be elected to "congress".

    How are you expected to potentially take a leadership role of you can't step up when there is a crisis?

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