Former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) announced on Thursday morning that he was taking his 2020 presidential campaign off life support after remaining stuck at 1% in the polls.
Just saw his campaign bus driving around yesterday. I guess it was being driven to the repo-lot?
But seriously, it had “Real solutions, Not impossible promises” written on the side. Pretty sure your slogan is supposed to be the aspirational part, not the attack-part of the campaign.
The Biden and Sanders and Warren camps conspired from the start to destroy Delaney’s chances in the primary. You could smell their fear every time he opened his mouth at a debate.
I am through with the Democratic party and will be sitting out this election.
Yeah, fuck that. The Democratic party is us, and we had better be sticking together AND participating fully in the 2020 election AND campaign. Nobody owes us anything. We have to earn the result we want.
Compete hard in the primary. Advocate for your candidate. Fight like hell for the nominee. Don’t waste any time or energy helping Putin or his Trumppling by picking at divisions within the party. There are multiple paths we can choose, but there is only one destination for us.
Delaney was the first candidate to enter the Democratic primary in July 2017, just six months into President Donald Trump’s first term. By September 2019, Delaney spent $24.4 million of his own money on his campaign.
I can’t even say I forgot about him. I don’t think it ever pierced my mind that this guy was in the race. And now I honestly can’t fathom what took him so long to drop out. What is the matter with these people?