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« Reply #1375 on: July 01, 2018, 04:28:22 AM »
Amy Klobuchar will be on ABC's This Week today. Susan Collins will, too, but we know she ain't running while Klobuchar visited Iowa twice last year and has, according to the Washington Post last year, "made no secret" she's considering running (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-lawmakers-such-as-amy-klobuchar-start-making-2020-moves-and-the-base-starts-making-demands/2017/05/08/2a7da116-31b3-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.0fc7d9655f2a).

Article about Klobuchar and Collins on This Week: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sunday-week-sen-susan-collins-sen-amy-klobuchar/story?id=56270170
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« Reply #1376 on: July 01, 2018, 04:55:37 AM »
Quote from: Cal on July 01, 2018, 04:28:22 AM
Amy Klobuchar will be on ABC's This Week today. Susan Collins will, too, but we know she ain't running while Klobuchar visited Iowa twice last year and has, according to the Washington Post last year, "made no secret" she's considering running (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-lawmakers-such-as-amy-klobuchar-start-making-2020-moves-and-the-base-starts-making-demands/2017/05/08/2a7da116-31b3-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.0fc7d9655f2a).

Article about Klobuchar and Collins on This Week: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sunday-week-sen-susan-collins-sen-amy-klobuchar/story?id=56270170

She's a good fit for Iowa what may help her in a crowded field. If the nominee is a man, Klobuchar would be a strong running mate.
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« Reply #1377 on: July 01, 2018, 08:32:23 PM »
Tammy Duckworth is a underdog and could run
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« Reply #1378 on: July 02, 2018, 08:12:08 AM »
Warren gets a very good First Family dog.
https://mobile.twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/1013565224266461190
But no one can compete with Franklin Brown-Schultz.
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« Reply #1379 on: July 03, 2018, 12:22:09 AM »
Winfrey says a presidential run would kill her:

http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/august-cover-vogue-2018

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« Reply #1380 on: July 03, 2018, 10:43:41 AM »
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Winfrey says a presidential run would kill her:

http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/august-cover-vogue-2018

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She's obviously running. Let's include her in every poll, along with Hillary and Michelle for good measure!
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« Reply #1381 on: July 03, 2018, 08:17:12 PM »
The former Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party Arvin Vohra announced tonight at the party convention (after losing his seat as Vice Chair) that he's running for President in 2020.

Vohra served as a moderately popular Vice Chair until he made some rather controversial decisions like stating that 15-year-olds have the right to date/have sex with 25-year-olds, and appearing on a white nationalist podcast.
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« Reply #1382 on: July 03, 2018, 08:36:48 PM »
Quote from: MAGugh on July 03, 2018, 08:17:12 PM
The former Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party Arvin Vohra announced tonight at the party convention (after losing his seat as Vice Chair) that he's running for President in 2020.

Vohra served as a moderately popular Vice Chair until he made some rather controversial decisions like stating that 15-year-olds have the right to date/have sex with 25-year-olds, and appearing on a white nationalist podcast.
Really playing up stereotypes here
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« Reply #1383 on: July 04, 2018, 01:54:31 AM »
Quote from: MAGugh on July 03, 2018, 08:17:12 PM
The former Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party Arvin Vohra announced tonight at the party convention (after losing his seat as Vice Chair) that he's running for President in 2020.

Vohra served as a moderately popular Vice Chair until he made some rather controversial decisions like stating that 15-year-olds have the right to date/have sex with 25-year-olds, and appearing on a white nationalist podcast.

Vohra announced in a really bizarre way, to top it off. He was nominated for an at-large position on the Libertarian National Committee, and announced so that he could ask if it was a conflict of interest to both run for President and be on the LNC. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11923&v=v5BOEDjFZ5E

He has very little chance. He is widely considered an embarrassment within the party now. He not only lost re-election to Vice Chair by a wide margin (barely edging out James "the stripper" Weeks for 4th place on the next-to-last ballot, and only 10% on the final ballot), he also lost the at-large bid, placing 12th when he needed 5th or better.
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« Reply #1384 on: July 04, 2018, 12:25:15 PM »
Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti says he'll run for prez in 2020 if he doesn't think there's anyone else in the field who can beat Trump:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/04/avenatti-2020-trump-reelection-stormy-daniels-lawyer-694056

http://www.newsweek.com/michael-avenatti-says-hed-absolutely-beat-trump-2020-election-and-be-his-1008494

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« Reply #1385 on: July 04, 2018, 01:34:42 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Morden on July 04, 2018, 12:25:15 PM
Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti says he'll run for prez in 2020 if he doesn't think there's anyone else in the field who can beat Trump:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/04/avenatti-2020-trump-reelection-stormy-daniels-lawyer-694056

http://www.newsweek.com/michael-avenatti-says-hed-absolutely-beat-trump-2020-election-and-be-his-1008494

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« Reply #1386 on: July 04, 2018, 06:50:40 PM »

There are much better ways for him to attempt to take down Trump. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter since I can't see him getting that far in a Democratic primary.
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« Reply #1387 on: July 05, 2018, 08:01:33 AM »
What did Avenatti do again?
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« Reply #1388 on: July 05, 2018, 09:04:15 AM »
Warren spent July 4th visiting the troops overseas:

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« Reply #1389 on: July 05, 2018, 03:05:18 PM »
She’s definitely running.
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« Reply #1390 on: July 05, 2018, 05:13:17 PM »
Quote from: Progressive Pessimist on July 04, 2018, 06:50:40 PM

There are much better ways for him to attempt to take down Trump. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter since I can't see him getting that far in a Democratic primary.

Is he even a Democrat? I thought he was implying a third party/independent bid.
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« Reply #1391 on: July 05, 2018, 05:38:28 PM »
Quote from: The Mikado on July 05, 2018, 05:13:17 PM
Quote from: Progressive Pessimist on July 04, 2018, 06:50:40 PM

There are much better ways for him to attempt to take down Trump. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter since I can't see him getting that far in a Democratic primary.

Is he even a Democrat? I thought he was implying a third party/independent bid.

I think I remember reading about how he said that he would run as a Democrat.
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« Reply #1392 on: July 06, 2018, 01:40:35 PM »
The 2020 Dem field is now officially a clown car.
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« Reply #1393 on: July 06, 2018, 05:24:19 PM »
Reason.com does a writeup of Vohra's run for the LP nomination: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/06/controversialist-arvin-vohra-announces-2

The LP's announced field already looks like:
  • Joe Exotic
  • Zoltan Istvan
  • Adam Kokesh
  • John McAfee (assuming he doesn't go independent)
  • Arvin Vohra
  • ...plus 10+ additional nobodies

If the field stayed that way, it would probably come down to Kokesh vs. McAfee, although it's tough to find the most "acceptable" candidate out of that list of eccentrics and radicals.

Fortunately, it's becoming more and more clear that Bill Weld is going to announce eventually as well, and he's been doing a good job of alleviating concerns in the party. Reason.com has another writeup that talks about how the race for Party Chair became somewhat of a referendum on Bill Weld's involvement with the party, and the result was an easy victory for pro-Weld incumbent Sarwark over (Ron Paul/Tom Woods backed) anti-Weld challenger Smith. That doesn't mean that Weld has an easy path to the LP nod for 2020, considering that Sarwark also had a dominating debate performance over Smith. But the anti-Weld faction will need better candidates than Kokesh, McAfee, and Vohra to stop him.
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« Reply #1394 on: July 06, 2018, 05:51:42 PM »
Quote from: Alt-Lite Sanchez on July 06, 2018, 01:40:35 PM
The 2020 Dem field is now officially a clown car.

Well the official campaigning hasn't even started yet, so that might be a little premature to say. It definitely could become a clown car though.
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« Reply #1395 on: July 06, 2018, 05:52:58 PM »
Quote from: sparkey on July 06, 2018, 05:24:19 PM
Reason.com does a writeup of Vohra's run for the LP nomination: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/06/controversialist-arvin-vohra-announces-2

The LP's announced field already looks like:
  • Joe Exotic
  • Zoltan Istvan
  • Adam Kokesh
  • John McAfee (assuming he doesn't go independent)
  • Arvin Vohra
  • ...plus 10+ additional nobodies

If the field stayed that way, it would probably come down to Kokesh vs. McAfee, although it's tough to find the most "acceptable" candidate out of that list of eccentrics and radicals.

Fortunately, it's becoming more and more clear that Bill Weld is going to announce eventually as well, and he's been doing a good job of alleviating concerns in the party. Reason.com has another writeup that talks about how the race for Party Chair became somewhat of a referendum on Bill Weld's involvement with the party, and the result was an easy victory for pro-Weld incumbent Sarwark over (Ron Paul/Tom Woods backed) anti-Weld challenger Smith. That doesn't mean that Weld has an easy path to the LP nod for 2020, considering that Sarwark also had a dominating debate performance over Smith. But the anti-Weld faction will need better candidates than Kokesh, McAfee, and Vohra to stop him.

This is interesting. Keep up the Libertarian updates!
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« Reply #1396 on: July 06, 2018, 06:13:08 PM »
Quote from: AndrewCA🌹 on July 06, 2018, 06:04:45 PM
So is Stein gearing up to be the sacrificial lamb of the Greens for the third time in a row, or...? It would be interesting to see how much media attention she'd receive given her now infamous status post-2016, TBH.

Her level of support would probably depend on how the Democratic primaries turn out and who is nominated. Not to mention if Russia continues to underhandedly promote her.
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« Reply #1397 on: July 07, 2018, 12:04:08 AM »
One other wrinkle on the Libertarian 2020 front: Apparently, because of Johnson's success (by 3rd party standards) in 2016, the Libertarian Party will be eligible to participate in presidential primaries in up to ~20 states in 2020:

http://ballot-access.org/2018/07/06/libertarian-party-may-have-record-number-of-presidential-primaries-in-2020/

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« Reply #1398 on: July 07, 2018, 11:05:38 AM »
Here's this week's 2020 Insight column:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/07/politics/2020-insight-trump-warren-pocahontas-dna-test/index.html

They highlight this interview with Joe Kennedy:

http://n-magazine.com/joe-kennedy-iii/

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« Reply #1399 on: July 07, 2018, 11:50:33 PM »
I am telling you again.  Hillary is going to run again.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/is-hillary-clinton-secretly-planning-to-run-in-2020/
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