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2019-11-06 Home Front: Politix
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These Democratic presidential candidates could be the next political casualties
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[MCCLATCHYDC] We’re now at the stage where financial and political realities crush the hopes of more. The pace of casualties will increase. Already a third of the overweight field has given up. Most recently, it was Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan.
| ... represents the area up around Akron, a Jim Traficant protege, tried to replace Nancy Pelosi as party head in 2016. He failed, of course, proving that youth and energy are no competition for old age and guile — which he demonstrated again when he failed to get anyone’s attention as presidential candidate... |
Soon, it will be Julian Castro, among others, then likely Sens. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
and Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark . He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
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And of course, Robert Francis O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
, who famously proclaimed he was "born to be in it." But last week, Beto aborted his effort just seven months in. It is, he said, "clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully."
"Means" means money. He ran out. While $10 million and even $5 million seem like sizable chunks of change to normal people, it’s lunch money in today’s politics. That’s especially true when every quarter, your competitors on the left are pulling in $25 million (Bernie Sanders
 ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
), $24 million (Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
) and $19 million (Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
). Or in the case of President Trump’s campaign, $125 million.
Here’s a sign of campaign money problems: You boast about not taking money from super PACs because, as every Democrat claims, they’re quite evil, unless you want to win. But after a poor quarter of fundraising (Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
collected $15 million, down 20% from spring), his mind got changed.
As the ex-vice president builds out a national campaign with some 200 new hires, he’s spending way more money than he’s taking in, which might be OK short-term.
But the more time he spends tapping the checkbooks of liberal Los Angeles and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, the less time he has to campaign where it matters. Oh, look! While Biden’s national poll numbers still lead the field, they’re crumbling in states. He’s dropped to third in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
Now, here’s a sign of a campaign’s terminal illness: Candidates announce with great enthusiasm that due to the importance of Iowa and its wonderful, warm Heartlanders, they are forsaking everywhere else to devote themselves full-time to the Hawkeye state.
Remember in 2007, Sen. Chris Dodd up and moved his entire family from Connecticut to wintry Des Moines because he wanted to spend more time with those wonderful people? Dodd finished sixth there that year.
Booker, the former mayor of Newark, N.J., is also focused solely on Iowa now, claiming that was his plan all along. Like others who attempt this gamble, he’s hoping a 2% poll standing will suddenly explode on Feb. 3, rocketing him into New Hampshire eight days later.
Then, there’s Harris, another coastal liberal importing herself to corn and hog country. A native of Oakland who became San Francisco’s district attorney and then Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s attorney general, Harris entered the Senate in 2017.
When she announced her White House bid in January, some thought the personable newcomer could be a female Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it ...
, a fresh face of color from a Democrat-dominant state with a short federal resume and abundant ambition.
Besides launching an early debate attack on Biden, Harris has been both a campaign flop and a flip-flopper, advocating very liberal positions one day, toning them down the next. In stark contrast to Warren, who has an expensive plan for everything, Harris suffers from the Hillarys, an inability to articulate compelling reasons for running.
In July, Harris was at 15% in the polls. Now, she’s right down there with the bottom-feeding flounders in low single digits. Even in her home state of California, Harris runs fourth behind a mayor from Indiana, for Pete’s sake.
As a result, she’s just fired dozens of staffers and has abandoned New Hampshire to focus on ‐ wait for it ‐ Iowa. "We are going to end up in Iowa doing very well," she declared. That will take some doing. She’s now in sixth place behind even Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious...
, while Oklahoma native Warren and Hoosier Buttigieg wrestle at the top.
For Harris, this is now at least the third campaign relaunch. She’s portraying herself as a tough prosecutor who can oust the GOP incumbent, allegedly Democrats’ fondest dream. "To win, we’re going to need a nominee on that stage...who has the ability to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
. And Iowa, you’re looking at her."
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