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

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

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Sanders also made statements like I will run if there is grassroots support & so on. He will probably wait till March-April or more & see what level of support he has, if this Beto hype from neoliberals subsides, if Warren is really tanking, If Biden runs (in which case he will 100% run).

I think he is tilting towards running but it is not 100%. Booker Warren Harris are much further ahead in the process.

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I think most of these people gave the Non-Denial about not running "We will see etc" but Gillibrand I think once categorically ruled out a 2020 run !

I am not sure if it was Gillibrand but it seemed that way !

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https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1082680686698467333

It won't be long before the DNC/Brock/Tanden machine whips into motion slandering anyone who dares speak against these two.

Booker, in particular, is horrifying, due to his close connection not only to Wall Street but also to Big Pharma and the people who created the opioid epidemic.

Horrible !

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Bernie Sanders: "There's no crisis at the border. President Trump, you want to talk about crises? 30 million Americans have no health insurance. Climate change threatens our planet. Half of older Americans have no retirement savings. 40 million are dealing with outrageous student debt."

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Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held over 400 house parties in all 50 states and Puerto Rico on Saturday afternoon calling on Sanders to run for president again in 2020. Saturday’s show of force, arranged by Organizing for Bernie ― an upstart group founded by Sanders campaign alumni and grassroots activists ― demonstrated one of the senator’s biggest advantages if he decides to return to the ring: a network of supporters already familiar with his message and skilled in do-it-yourself internet organizing.

Although Sanders and his campaign team were not directly involved in Saturday’s events, the house parties were co-sponsored by People for Bernie and Our Revolution, the latter group created to carry on the mission of Sanders’ 2016 campaign. The livestream, which was broadcast by progressive media upstart Act.tv, had attracted over 100,000 views as of Saturday evening.

Source -  Huffington Post

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Means of Production, the filmmaking cooperative that created the viral campaign video that propelled Ocasio-Cortez’s House campaign, is in talks with the Sanders team about a major role in 2020. And two people who powered Sanders’ record-breaking small-dollar fundraising operation in 2016 have agreed to join a subsequent presidential bid if it materializes, according to a Sanders campaign aide: Tim Tagaris and Robin Curran, his digital fundraising director and digital production director in 2016, respectively. The aide said another pair that have helped Sanders build a digital media juggernaut out of his Senate office — media producer Armand Aviram and digital director Georgia Parke — are likely to be part of his 2020 team, too.

Burton said the Detroit-based team would likely create “big, beautiful ads” and “drumbeat content” for Sanders if it was brought on for 2020. "We have certainly been talking with his team," she said, adding that if Sanders runs, "He's the only candidate we would work for.” This week, Sanders’ Senate team streamed his rebuttal to President Trump’s Oval Office address on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which went on to garner more than 1.1 million views. In comparison, former Rep. O’Rourke, who is also considering a presidential bid, received almost 200,000 views when he filmed himself on Facebook live for more than an-hour-and-a-half to refute Trump; a short clip of the video got another 480,000 views on Twitter.

CrowdTangle data recently compiled by a person close to the Sanders campaign also underscores his social media muscle compared to other presidential hopefuls: Sanders’ videos had nearly 1.5 billion views in 2017 and 2018 on Facebook — almost three times more than all other potential 2020 Democratic candidates’ videos combined, according to the report. On Saturday, the People for Bernie Sanders hosted more than 400 house parties throughout the country to push Sanders to run in 2020. Winnie Wong, a co-founder of the group, said the events showed that outside pro-Sanders organizations also have extensive social media power that can be put to use in a presidential election.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/14/bernie-sanders-campaign-2020-election-1098795

Politico story - Sanders' building up a strong digital team as outside Bernie supporting groups host 400 House parties urging Sanders to run !

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She highlights how she has opposed the most Trump nominees like if it was a game & showed that she was progressive. She opposed all these guys with a planned pitch that she was most opposed to Trump.

Who really talks about opposing President X's Cabinet Nominees as some kind of crowning achievement ?

And she has like 400 views. That is just terrible & pitiful !

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Brown Sanders Warren is going to be a very left wing group. You add how left people like Booker Harris Gillibrand have moved, the primaries will look completely different ideologically & policy wise than in 2016.

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Bernie Sanders & Goldman's Ex CEO are locked in a twitter feud.