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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on August 10, 2019, 06:24:47 pm
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The Memo: Warren emerges as Biden's most dangerous rival
The Hill, Aug 10, 2019
Elizabeth Warren is now the most serious rival to former Vice President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
Several recent polls, both nationwide and in Iowa, have shown the Massachusetts senator in second place to Biden. Her performances at televised debates have won widespread praise. And her fundraising has been robust. She raised $19 million in the second quarter.
But if Warren is the one major candidate who is unquestionably on an upward trajectory, there are still significant questions about how she gets past Biden, who continues to lead by a sizable margin in most polls.
The former vice president is particularly popular with black voters, who are pivotal to success in a Democratic primary.
Among progressives, there are also worries about a split in the left-wing vote between Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). Even if Warren emerges as the clear standard-bearer of the left in the months ahead, Sanders is not going anywhere.
More: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456862-the-memo-warren-emerges-as-bidens-most-dangerous-rival
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If Warren becomes president this country will spiral into the kind of socialist hell that Venezuela has become.
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If Warren becomes president this country will spiral into the kind of socialist hell that Venezuela has become.
I think that's pretty safe to say that's where this country is headed regardless of what DEM wins.
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If Warren becomes president this country will spiral into the kind of socialist hell that Venezuela has become.
Except much of what she wants will have to go through the halls of Congress, first. And then out to the public. It's one thing to throw chunks of red meat to a base of supporters. Much more difficult to force those ideas on the public
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
Barry Goldwater
God bless you, Friend, for quoting Barry Goldwater. What a great president he would have made. A true patriot.
"Totus mundis stultizat." - The whole world is getting stupider. Attributed to a European king at his meeting with advisors who prattled nonsense, as such people do today.
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Unlike slow Joe, Lieawatha actually has a functioning mind -- even if the ideas comin' out of it are all wrong.
Will she pick Castro to be her running mate?
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Warren is at best Biden's second most dangerous rival............behind Biden himself.