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

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This used to be "sherrodforohio". Now just "sherrod".

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Hey, if Ryan and Moulton both run, maybe they’ll split their vote and each only get a quarter-percent if the electorate instead of the half-percent each would otherwise be getting!

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Come on sherrod!

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Democrats (and quite a few independants) DO love Joe Biden. Lots of Ds on this sub and Bernie bots on other social media platforms seem to dislike him though, making it seem as though he is unpopular.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/422084-biden-tops-2020-dems-for-favorability-rating-in-new-poll

They like Joe Biden as he is now, the former VP to a President they strongly like and admire.

If/when he runs for President as championing the pre-2016 status quo, and inevitably has multiple gaffes, they aren't gonna like him as much. He may not implode but his numbers are gonna come down to Earth pretty fast.

Additionally, he's out of step with the Democratic Party on multiple issues that the party is undeniably starting to moving left on (primarily economic issues). If Biden ends up winning the nomination and then wins the presidency, he'll rightfully face a lot of scrutiny from the left for not being progressive enough, if at all.

And on top of that, Biden seems a very likely target for #MeToo accusations, either sincere or GOP-generated.  Both from Thomas' confirmation hearings and the regular appearances of "Creepy Uncle Joe".

He would be a very poor choice for nominee. Fortunately, I doubt he's running.

He's very likely to run, and the metooers can deal with it. Just because hes a straight white male doesn't mean they can just go after him without any actual evidence of anything.

Plus, they probably won't even go after him, because he's a democrat (Franken was a rare exception) and even if there is evidence against him of anything the media won't report it because again, he's a democrat. They only want to deflect the negative attention towards Trump.

John Conyers? Keith Ellison?

Eric Schneiderman?
Also MeToo literally started with Weinstein, who was a noted Dem donor.

But it should be clear to anyone who reads this forum even a little bit that Grassroots is stuck in his own fantasy world.

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Moulton headed to Iowa on March 29:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/03/13/iowa-caucus-2020-seth-moulton-travel-iowa-he-considers-presidential-run-veterans-university-of-iowa/3155846002/

de Blasio will be in New Hampshire this weekend:

https://www.insidesources.com/bill-de-blasio-bringing-his-toilet-bowl-politics-to-new-hampshire/

He also says that a run for president wouldn't prompt him to resign as mayor:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-deblasio-presidential-run-resign-20190313-story.html

When will these guys (and Swalwell too) get a clue?