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The top 10 Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET, giving us a clearer picture of the tone candidates plan to adopt in the 11 weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses, as well as what sort of impact the public, explosive impeachment hearings will have on 2020 Democrats’ messaging.
America, are you taking your required Civics class, albeit in a new way??
Given recent events, it would be really nice to hear some consideration of foreign affairs issues. You know, Russia, the EU, China, Ukraine, Iran, Ambassador qualifications, Global Warming, etc.
Hoping that Biden does not repeat his talking point taken from decades ago that Marijuana may be a gateway drug and needs more studies before he considers decriminalizing it at a federal level.There has been enough studies already. Time to legalize, regulate and tax it.
It may be a gateway drug to munchies.
It could come up because he did mention it last week and the MORE Act passed out of committee today.
I’m hoping they come at Pete hard and mean. Literally throw everything at him.
I’m seriously considering him but I also know that if he’s going be the candidate, it’s going to get ugly in a way that it’s never gotten ugly before. He’s going to need to be able to handle 24/7 attacks of the most vicious kind. The sooner it starts, the sooner we’ll know if he’s up to it.
PS - I’m not saying we should start the homophobic crap as Dems. Just tough ass, rough and tumble, attacks.
What a week to take off and rent a mini-bini to purge the basement et all.
I think Biden is the one to make the most of commenting tonight on this week’s hearings.
Don’t know how Adam Schiff continues to have the energy to keep on keepin’ on with these hearings. I’m fried just listening attentively most of the time and as background noise while doing my tasks. He is a man of steel.
It would be a lot easier if we didn’t have fifty candidates.
I like Pete too, and I really want to see (and need to see) how he handles being attacked. Is he made of the right stuff?
He definitely has the right resume for a Democratic POTUS -
You know, an education, life of service, and accolades that far outshine anything a Trump, Bush 43, or Reagan could ever touch.
(Gotta be fair to 41 - whatever the politics, can’t argue with his resume - but he became POTUS running on 40s fumes)
From everything I read, Pete is in low single digits with blacks. If he can’t get the black vote, we’re toast if he’s our candidate. I like him also.
I’m thinking a Stacy Abrams VP spot will solve a lot of those problems if she chooses not to run for Senate.
Yes, he is, but others are lagging too - including Harris and Booker. So, we’ll see if he can change that.
I’d like to see Warren’s polling with minorities gain more traction as well.
Biden does the best in that area.
I was thinking that too. But as others have pointed out, two younger relatively inexperienced people on the same ticket might be a stretch for some.
Lol - I feel like such a political hack.
I’m wondering - who’s the African American version of Joe Biden to be Pete’s Number 2?
I’m concerned that the corporate media have decided they don’t want to raise taxes on the wealthy and they sure as hell don’t want to ruffle the health insurance industry.
The DNC is going to push a “centrist” Democrat to the fore and that will be it. Game over - same old shit. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Warren and Sanders are “leftists” according to Obama - might as well call them bomb-throwing Bolsheviks.
Obama was a dignified president but I am now as disappointed in him as I was, ultimately, in Bill Clinton. Somehow, issues like single payer health care, affordable college and paid maternity leave are radical leftist ideas? These are issues that an FDR Democrat would embrace. Christ, these are ideas that other Roosevelt, Theodore would probably embrace in a modern context.
And Biden. What a joke. Still calls pot a gateway drug.
That is so f—ing completely idiotic that it leaves me speechless. Completely and absolutely out of touch.
This clown should just get the f— out of the way of progress.
Yeah, I think he’s past his prime.
The obvious problem with Pete Butigieg is that he has essentially zero experience in governance. Really - mayor of a city with a population of what, 100,000? He’s a bright guy but he’s just another guy who wants to be president because he just wants it. We don’t need that.
So many Americans have become so timid, so afraid of the future, so terrified of their role in the world, so fearful that the rest of the world want to punish the US that they have forgotten what real leadership looks like - it seems threatening to them.
I’m wondering who Warren would pick as a number 2. I’m thinking male, more to the center, POC.