The public option is literally in Bernie's M4A bill.
This was covered a ton of pages ago. What was actually said is that Harris wouldn't be against a bill that was multi-payer but she'd prefer single. Do you think Bernie would veto a multi-payer bill?
The problem is that she wants M4A to be just a slogan and not a specific bill that she cosponsored (S1804). She is calling all three plans that she cosponsored "M4A" and thus saying that she still supports M4A. Meanwhile, she backtracked on the main issue of the M4A bill (S1804), thus being opposed to S1804. She still claims to support M4A because she also calls the other two bills M4A.
M4A has been coopted into a general slogan including everything from the public option from the original Single Payer bill for over a decade now, deliberately done because while the slogan is popular, Single Payer is strongly divisive relative to optional programs. Hence why politicians keep using the slogan while avoiding details. All of this far predates Harris's 2020 bid.
M4A meaning both multi-payer and single-payer is not a new thing.
it's a pretty petty attack. also her record w/ Syria hasn't been great either. she was criticizing Obama for not doing enough against al-quaeda just a couple of years ago.
Yep it's bad for Gillibrand. Kamala is only 2% Bernie who has 100% name id which is very impressive this early.
I'm not sure how to read this graph. I thought it was showing Klobuchar as having the most Russian help, but apparently not and now I feel stupid???
The way Kamala is going she is going to sail right past Bernard soon so Gillibrand cancelling Bernie is no longer needed.
I'd say Biden has a reasonable chance. Ironically, Bernie's best chance is probably Biden dropping out. Harris still has a massive amount of lack of name recognition to cash in on.
Kamala is way more progressive than Biden and doesn't have the stench of being an old white man in a party where increasingly the base is more and more woman and less and less white.Save us Biden
Would be nice if that were true, but Biden's and Bernie's bases overlap if you look at approval numbers among dem primary voters and that survey that specifically points out that Biden's supporters view Bernie as a second option most and vice versa. If one of them drops out the other is likely to pick up a lot of voters.
The fact that its Biden and not Warren shows that this was never about ideology.
a lot of that is because of name recognition for right now. But I agree that if Biden runs he would do very well.
Again I think it's mostly name recognition.
Not a lot name recognition. She hasn't done anything to differentiate herself from other candidates. And going by twitter, the people who know her are menninists who hate her because of her actions towards Franken and and her prior moves to address rape culture.
Yeah. Gillibrand needs a good answer to the "why her?" question because I don't see much reason to support her instead of Harris or Warren. Warren has progressive bonafides and Harris seems to be a more gifted politician in general which leaves Gillibrand in an awkward spot.
To be fair, we still have quite a bit of time left before primary voting, and Biden hasn't officially announced a bid yet.
I'd be surprised if he didn't with the poll numbers coming in for him. He's got time regardless.
He's high because he was Obama's VP. That's really all there is to it. His path to victory is basically pointing to Obama constantly and to convince people he's the same as Obama.
Out of the "serious" candidates Gillibrand and Booker are DOA
He should probably drop out based on this expert analysis 🙄
