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US PoliERA 2019 |OT2| #PresidentPelosi
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Yep, in the modern tv era of politics, the more "charismatic" candidate always wins the general.
A lot of older people legit thought she'd be the one to finally do it. We've all been making jokes about it for ages and ages. Now that there's not an inevitability to wait on, someone has to step up and do it.
Also this.
Trump won by a fluke of the electorate. And unless the Dems fuck up REALLY BAD (which is certainly possible), repeating this fluke for trump will be nigh impossible, especially when you consider all the Dem votes that stayed home in 2016 assuming Clinton would win.
It was from the El Paso one last night, just hearing about the incident and his reaction to it on stage.
Did they change the law? I remember McAuliffe having to sign off on each application because the R assembly made that a requirement.
It will be voted down unanimously by the Dem Caucus. It can't pass in any way shape or form in its current form. Hes trying to get someone like Bernie to defect but IIRC hes been good about not sticking out on votes like this.
It never would. Hell I doubt you could even get all Democrats on board let alone the necessary GOP.
Oh I'm well aware of that. Which is why I would die laughing if it does.
Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand
Senate Intelligence Committee aide tells me, re: NBC story, that right now there is "a common set of facts" that the panel is working with, "and a disagreement about what those facts mean."
They add: "We are closer to the end than the beginning, but we're not wrapping up."
Senate Intelligence Committee aide tells me, re: NBC story, that right now there is "a common set of facts" that the panel is working with, "and a disagreement about what those facts mean."
They add: "We are closer to the end than the beginning, but we're not wrapping up."
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Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand
Re: the headline, "Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia," same aide says: "the word 'direct' is doing a lot of work here."
Re: the headline, "Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia," same aide says: "the word 'direct' is doing a lot of work here."
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It did with me, yeah. I didn't like it in the debates but him leaning harder in with the responsibility comment irritated me that it's somehow my fault that Texas is super cool with a 4channer Nazi tearing apart babies from families. This talk is too much of a white straight guy isolated from the effects and thus still able to take Republicans as having good faith.
No show votes!
I think two (or three) things are in play here:
1a. Trump being a horrible man and his horrible views/policies on gender (among other things)
1b. #metoo fueling "If you wanna get the job done, you gotta do it yourself"
2. Not wanting to leave the taste of Hillary's failure in the mouths of the electorate/Hanging over future female
This is incredibly shallow but a pretty good outcome for AAs not calling for his head.
It's to put dem votes on the record basically. show vote.
It's like we can't trust McConnell to what he says or something amirite? Shocker
Kinda like Hillary to me. Almost all Second and First hand information of people hanging with Hillary was that she would drink and shoot the shit with Everyone. Also she remember people enough that My mom even got a phone call from her when she came to Baltimore because My mom Worked with some Of Hillary's people when she was trying to get Healthcare off the ground way back when. She wasn't that High up at all but she still remembered enough to help me and my sisters to get in college by writing letters of recommendation for us when My mom asked on whim way back during a Clinton charity event.
Yeah there is barely any clear framework in the bill and is so vague at some parts to be ineffectual.
McConnell is just a partisan hack. He's not nearly as smart as some people imply he is.
It is a vision statement at this point, not a direct policy proposal...
I'm in the same camp. Any both sides rhetoric is unwelcome this cycle imo.
That said, Beto's charisma could possibly be employed to good effect for a VP slot. I'm extremely wary of someone who leans in so hard to being a "moderate" though.
I want to believe that, but remember Trump will have two things he didn't have in 2016 in 2020. Incumbency, which is always a huge boost, and A huge amount of money. Didn't he have $100 million as reelection campaign months ago? And it'll be even bigger one 2020 comes around. Yeah sure some of it will disappear into people's pockets but I still have an absurd amount of money to spend to just saturate all media with his ads.
The Democrats will still have a huge popularity advantage to be sure, but 2020 isn't a sure thing by any means, and there will be a Bloody fight for whoever ends up running against Trump.
Jesus Christ. I don't wanna know how you pull that off, either.
That's not just being a dick, that's vindictive.
Pretty much but its also the reason MC-Connel wants it on the floor to force democrats to vote it down even thought most would only vote it down because its a vision statement.
Just take everything he says as the opposite of the truth and you'll be right 90% of the time. Sorry BoboBrazil, I like you, but I've been watching your predictions for a while and they're off very, very often (e.g. Beto's definitely going to win against Cruz, Rosenstein is definitely getting fired, Mueller's investigation is definitely ending, etc.)
Nope; having a VP with more charisma and likability is a disaster for a Presidential candidate.
Beto has to be on the top of the ticket, or not at all.
This is the most random kind of behavior for a person to have. What would be the point of her doing this?
When you have former and current staffers also saying they didn't see any of this behavior, and afaik all of these reports are from anonymous ex-staffers not showing any hard reciepts, maybe we should hold the phone for a second. Calling a future employer and asking to rescind the offer is next level insane.
Has anyone published any of these late night emails, etc?
Has anyone published any of these late night emails, etc?
If he was minority leader, he'd fail at doing anything. All his "accomplishments" are the result of the power given to him in the majority and his own amoral nature giving him zero shame.
Just had my centrist friend rip on Green New Deal as insanity and thinks AOC is awful
I tried calmly explaining what the nuance of it but maybe Dems need to be a tad more simplistic here?
This is the same person who filibustered his own bill back in 2012 because he erroneously assumed there would be "Dems in Disarray".
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