The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread, Part 3

[Harlow]

O’Malley’s in Nevada today:

https://twitter.com/MartinOMalley/status/1058834089061560320

He’s also now started putting out campaign-style Youtube videos at a rate of more than one a day, in his “This We Believe” series.  E.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7OrZxOR3w

These videos are full of his fortune cookie-like sayings, e.g.:

“We are stumbling backwards into the future, but the world only spins forward.”

“No people ever mastered the winds of change by pretending that they weren’t blowing.”

Can’t wait for him to talk about how love is a superpower in the primary debates.

"We won the last two Industrial Revolutions, and we can win this one too."

Well, that's certainly an interesting way of putting it.

[tosk]

So is Swalwell gonna launch a vanity campaign just to get Californians to notice him?

maybe? a bid to boost name id...?

[gottsu]

O’Malley’s in Nevada today:

https://twitter.com/MartinOMalley/status/1058834089061560320

He’s also now started putting out campaign-style Youtube videos at a rate of more than one a day, in his “This We Believe” series.  E.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7OrZxOR3w

These videos are full of his fortune cookie-like sayings, e.g.:

“We are stumbling backwards into the future, but the world only spins forward.”

“No people ever mastered the winds of change by pretending that they weren’t blowing.”

Can’t wait for him to talk about how love is a superpower in the primary debates.

"We won the last two Industrial Revolutions, and we can win this one too."

Well, that's certainly an interesting way of putting it.

But if he ends his "testing the waters" he will end up still the same as in 2016... He would have been a serious candidate only by 1976 conditions...

I tend to like him, he's a decent mainstream Dem, he would have been a nice, smooth, but also unobtrusive president, but facts about him are layered by me above...

[Mr. Morden]

Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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[Shadows]

Avenatti has released an ad ! This guy is gonna run !

[Mr. Morden]

Most of the prospective 2020 Democratic candidates are doing campaign events in their home states today, though there are some exceptions (Biden’s in PA, which is where he was born, but not where he was Senator; O’Malley’s in NV; Patrick’s in FL; Sanders is splitting his time today between VT and NH).  Where they are today:

Biden: PA
Booker: NJ
Castro: TX
Gillibrand: NY
Harris: CA
Klobuchar: MN
McAuliffe: VA
O’Malley: NV
Patrick: FL
Ryan: OH
Sanders: VT/NH
Warren: MA

Meanwhile, Tom Steyer is not on the campaign trail today.  But he did do this interview with Al Sharpton, where Sharpton asked him if he was going to run for president next year.  Steyer responds with a meandering non-answer, that begins with “I’m going to wait and see what happens on Tuesday”, and then implies he’ll figure things out from there:

https://twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/1059219934759321602

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Michael Avenatti has released another new political ad -

https://instagram.com/p/BpxmkLoADLO/

[tosk]

Michael Avenatti has released another new political ad -

https://instagram.com/p/BpxmkLoADLO/

jeez, that looks super amateur hour

[Mr. Illini]

Bloomberg is running, right?

2min, $5mil+ ad buys featuring himself speaking to the camera

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Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

[Comrade Funk]

Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

Hi Jimmy Dore.

[Mr. Morden]

While Steyer has poured boatloads of $ into helping Democrats in the midterms, in terms of direct contributions to candidates and state parties in the four early primary states, Garcetti leads the pack:

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article221042525.html

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Top contributors to the four early states:

1) Garcetti $420k
2) Steyer $136k
3) Warren $66k

Top 3 in Iowa:
1) Garcetti $108k
2) Swalwell $47k
3) Merkley $34k

Top 3 in NH:
1) Garcetti $103k
2) Warren $18k
3) Gillibrand $15k

Top 3 in NV:
1) Steyer $126k
2) Garcetti $105k
3) Biden $21k

Top 3 in SC:
1) Garcetti $104k
2) Warren $13k
3) Delaney $7k

[Former Crackhead Mike Lindell]

That's a fascinating and, to me, totally unexpected collection of names and figures. Garcetti? Surprising. John Delaney making a solid effort, too.

[NewYorkExpress]

Most of the prospective 2020 Democratic candidates are doing campaign events in their home states today, though there are some exceptions (Biden’s in PA, which is where he was born, but not where he was Senator; O’Malley’s in NV; Patrick’s in FL; Sanders is splitting his time today between VT and NH).  Where they are today:

Biden: PA
Booker: NJ
Castro: TX
Gillibrand: NY
Harris: CA
Klobuchar: MN
McAuliffe: VA
O’Malley: NV
Patrick: FL
Ryan: OH
Sanders: VT/NH
Warren: MA

Meanwhile, Tom Steyer is not on the campaign trail today.  But he did do this interview with Al Sharpton, where Sharpton asked him if he was going to run for president next year.  Steyer responds with a meandering non-answer, that begins with “I’m going to wait and see what happens on Tuesday”, and then implies he’ll figure things out from there:

https://twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/1059219934759321602

Steyer is going to run unless Democrats actually succeed in removing Trump from office...and even then I think he'll just run against Pence.

[CookieDamage]

Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

It's not like she endorsed Graham and tried to take Gillum down. But go off

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Kasich attacks both parties, admits he would be destroyed in a primary against Trump, and considers a third party run in 2020: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kasich-hints-at-challenging-trump-as-third-party-candidate-in-2020-during-the-view-appearance

I'm willing to bet that he runs with Hickenlooper on the Serve America Movement line.

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Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

It's not like she endorsed Graham and tried to take Gillum down. But go off

She did endorse Buffy Wicks over Jovanka Beckles and Nancy O'Malley over Pamela Price. And she certainly didn't endorse an actually progressive black woman named K. Harris who ran for Senate in Delaware.

[AudmanOut]

Harris has been “building a network for black candidates”:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/kamala-harris-is-building-a-network-for-black-candidates.html

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Bernie was the only Senator to endorse Gillum in the primary. I guess he just wasn't the right type of black for Harris. Harris endorsed white Buffy Wicks over black Hispanic lesbian immigrant Jovanka Beckles. You only hear about identity politics when it benefits the establishment candidate.

It's not like she endorsed Graham and tried to take Gillum down. But go off

[NewYorkExpress]

Kasich attacks both parties, admits he would be destroyed in a primary against Trump, and considers a third party run in 2020: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kasich-hints-at-challenging-trump-as-third-party-candidate-in-2020-during-the-view-appearance

I'm willing to bet that he runs with Hickenlooper on the Serve America Movement line.

Hickenlooper isn't that stupid.

If he's picking a "Democrat", he's picking someone more moderate, like Bloomberg, Warner or Bullock.

[Mr. Morden]

O'Rourke yesterday: "I will not be a candidate for president in 2020":

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/o-rourke-i-will-not-run-president-2020-n931341

[Mr. Morden]

Biden now says that even if he sticks to his earlier stated January decision deadline for whether to run again, he won't announce said decision as early as January:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/06/joe-biden-2020-announce-964820

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[UWS]

Biden now says that even if he sticks to his earlier stated January decision deadline for whether to run again, he won't announce said decision as early as January:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/06/joe-biden-2020-announce-964820

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I think he means that he will announce his intentions approximaely on January 31 if he sayshat early January is too early.

[NewYorkExpress]

O'Rourke yesterday: "I will not be a candidate for president in 2020":

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/o-rourke-i-will-not-run-president-2020-n931341

Either that's a Shermanesque statement, or an early concession to Cruz, or both.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Potential Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown already projected to win re-election less than an hour after polls close.