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

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Avenatti making the moves

With this- we have Avenatti, Harris, Warren, and Castro all basically in, Buttigieg and Biden to make decisions around the new year, and with all the people rumored, only Moulton is basically out.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/280740519219278/

Ojeda is launching his campaign Monday night in Louisville, KY.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/280740519219278/

Ojeda is launching his campaign Monday night in Louisville, KY.

Seems like a strange place to launch it.

Even stranger when he is going to a Teamsters there. It seems he wants to be the union candidate, however, why not do it in Charleston with a bunch of teachers he helped successfully beat two chambers of 2:1 GOP majorities to get a 5% pay raise for them.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/tom-steyer-2020-presidential-bid-1005612

Tom Steyer is going to make some major steps tomorrow. A six-figure ad buy featuring all major social networks minus Snapchat, and revamped website, full-page ads in USA Today and in some Gannett newspapers, and the announcement of five town halls, starting with Charleston, SC on December 4th.  There are five rights in the proposed platform: a right to an equal vote, a right to clean air and water, a right to learn from pre-K to college, a right to a living wage, and a right to health care.

Basically, is Tom Steyer running a quasi-campaign till the end of the year? He thinks it is too early to announce, so is basically going to run without officially running?

https://www.wvnstv.com/west-virginia-news/richard-ojeda-kicks-off-2020-presidential-campaign/1607934700

Plus, State Sen. Ojeda has launched his campaign in Louisville tonight. He basically restated that the problems in West Virginia are problems from all over the country. The end of the article states that Ojeda will head to New York for more rallies before going home for Thanksgiving.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/21/cory-booker-talks-with-obama-clinton-strategists-in-iowa-as-he-mulls-2020-run.html

More Cory Booker news regarding the hunt for strategists in Iowa.

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These boring white male Senators have zero chance. They will lose as badly as Dodd did in 2008.

I really wonder what's going through their head to make them think they'd have any shot. Honestly it's not hard to read the trends of what base of the Dem party wants. It's female and non-white, its pretty obvious too but so many are intent on wasting their time and money.

They probably think they a chance because the media is putting out stories that the Democrats cannot win an election if they nominate another woman or even minority in some stories. Also, the media will send somebody to cover them, look at Ojeda. Ojeda entered straight after the midterms and has gotten media attention for almost 2 weeks. The media will cover them, like how at some point they will start covering Delaney, Yang, and if she runs Williamson.

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Cuomo out. Avenatti out. Deval Patrick appearing to be out. Bullock is out, and now he's back in? - All in the last month or so.

Looks like it's finally 2020 time.

With the craziness, I would not count Patrick fully out until he says it himself.

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https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1072891149252247552

hurk

Let the 2020 campaign begin!

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/howard-schultz-internal-polling-a-bad-omen-for-democrats-worried-he-could-play-spoiler

Let they stop holding their (right-wing) breath: if Schultz will run (of course as indy, progressives wouldn't let him into Democrats) he'll be another Ross Perot. Why it's so simple to me?

The reason why it is not that simple because he will be the leftish version of Ross Perot. The only things he sides with President Trump in some ways is health care, taxes, and debt. Immigration, Schultz basically has the typical Democratic tone. He also is diametrically opposed to every view social conservatives have. Plus, the fact that him taking shots at President Trump has really hurt his chance to steal GOP voters given how high the President's approval ratings are within his own party.