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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 15, 2020, 04:40:17 pm
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Drudge Report: Bloomberg considering Hillary Clinton for running mate
by Zachary Halaschak
| February 15, 2020 10:44 AM
| Updated Feb 15, 2020, 11:06 AM
Michael Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to the Drudge Report.
The top right-leaning news aggregator, citing sources close to the Bloomberg team, reported on Saturday that the former New York mayor is contemplating Clinton as a vice presidential running mate after his campaign's polling found the combination would go over well with voters.
Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge said in a rare tweet, which he will likely delete, that the former mayor would go as far as moving his official residence from New York to Colorado or Florida, where he owns homes, so that he and Clinton are not from the same state during the race.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drudge-report-bloomberg-considering-hillary-clinton-for-running-mate (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drudge-report-bloomberg-considering-hillary-clinton-for-running-mate)
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Also of note:
This is the first publicly identifiable statement from Matt Drudge since those rumors of him selling/departing his namesake site several months ago. It looks like those reports were premature.
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Just when it appeared his campaign was gaining traction, he goes and commits Arkancide.
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Trump World Reacts To Report Bloomberg Could Tap Hillary To Be His VP
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/15/trump-bloomberg-hillary-running-mate-drudge/
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Look out America - here comes Mr and Mrs Personality.
Bloomberg will have to double the detail doing preflight checks on his Gulfstream G500 though.
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Also of note:
This is the first publicly identifiable statement from Matt Drudge since those rumors of him selling/departing his namesake site several months ago. It looks like those reports were premature.
Unless he sold his twitter account too...
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Can the poor ole gal stay awake that long.
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How long until the TDS contingent, claims Trump is "advocating" for Hillary?
or some such malarkey?
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OMG that's good and a keeper..
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Annika H Rothstein
@truthandfiction
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Imma start printing “Bloomberg didn’t kill himselfâ€-shirts now just to get ahead of this
https://twitter.com/truthandfiction/status/1228762240360288258
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Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
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Mini-Mike considering asking Hillary to be his running mate. Does he have a terminal illness or is this simply a deathwish?
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Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
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OMG......â€Bloomberg didn’t kill himself†is starting to trend
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Unless he sold his twitter account too...
Not likely.
The account is verified (the blue check) under Matt's personal name. If he sold his personal account to someone else it would lose that verification. He hadn't used that account at all in the months it had been rumored he sold the Report.
He may have sold a stake in the site's operations, but it appears he still has some role there.
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Cannot see Hillary playing second banana to Bloomberg or anyone else for that matter. On the other hand, maybe being VP might be less taxing on her health.
Honestly though I think Hillary's presidential aspirations are over. She will be grooming the daughter for political office.
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Cannot see Hillary playing second banana to Bloomberg or anyone else for that matter. On the other hand, maybe being VP might be less taxing on her health.
Honestly though I think Hillary's presidential aspirations are over. She will be grooming the daughter for political office.
For right now, Bloomberg is using her name to run on to help him. Ironically she'll be seen as bringing some sanity to the DEMS and as an alternative to the far leftists.
IF he's given the DEM nomination I think she would accept being his running mate in a heart beat. No real stress for her -- she wouldn't have the rigorous schedule of running for POTUS. She can make appearances as her health allows. Certainly not all that she aspired for, but she would still be the FIRST female vie president in the history of the U.S. Then I can also see her daughter follow her in 2024 and run for POTUS.
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For right now, Bloomberg is using her name to run on to help him. Ironically she'll be seen as bringing some sanity to the DEMS and as an alternative to the far leftists.
IF he's given the DEM nomination I think she would accept being his running mate in a heart beat. No real stress for her -- she wouldn't have the rigorous schedule of running for POTUS. She can make appearances as her health allows. Certainly not all that she aspired for, but she would still be the FIRST female vie president in the history of the U.S. Then I can also see her daughter follow her in 2024 and run for POTUS.
You have to wonder if he ran this past her. If so, she obviously didn't rule it out. If not, I think she would see it as the supreme insult. The main thing is that if Bloomberg got in to reserve a place for her when Biden imploded, as I feared, he would never have thrown this out there. I don't think that would have worked, but it's still a relief to have it off the table.
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Then I can also see her daughter follow her in 2024 and run for POTUS.
2024 would be too soon for Chelsea IMHO. Some political experience like senator or something -- then maybe 2028 at the earliest.
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2024 would be too soon for Chelsea IMHO. Some political experience like senator or something -- then maybe 2028 at the earliest.
I understand your thinking, but times are certainly different -- who needs experience these days to run for political office? Buttgig for example was a mayor and he's now running for President and so far he's done amazingly very well in both IA and NH. Perhaps she needs to hold some type of political office as a stepping stone -- but really other than campaigning for her mother and having a seat on the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation, what experience does she have to serve in a political capacity? She has the name Clinton and perhaps she'd have the money machine behind her -- so I don't think it's a matter of experience, it's just a matter of if she wants to jump into politics.
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Hillary Clinton has stated that she would consider the VP slot.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-campaign-downplays-report-he-is-considering-hillary-clinton-for-vp (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-campaign-downplays-report-he-is-considering-hillary-clinton-for-vp)
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Boy what a mistake that would be for Bloomberg.
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I can't see how Clinton makes any sense for him. She's not that much younger and questionable health, wouldn't balance the ticket in any way I can see, brings boatloads of baggage including the "foundation" and Bill's sexcapades, and wouldn't bring any additional appeal to minority or swing state voters. A Klobuchar or Booker would make far more sense.
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This just in: State Farm has announced it will cancel Michael Bloomberg's life insurance after he announced Hillary for VP.
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Just when it appeared his campaign was gaining traction, he goes and commits Arkancide.
@Cato
I finally find something about him to admire. Not often you see trash take itself out.
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Cannot see Hillary playing second banana to Bloomberg or anyone else for that matter. On the other hand, maybe being VP might be less taxing on her health.
Honestly though I think Hillary's presidential aspirations are over. She will be grooming the daughter for political office.
@Applewood
While Howdy Doody was popular with children 50 years ago,the younger voters of today and the illegal votes have never heard of him,so why would they vote for Bubbette! Jr?
Besides,there is nothing in being "the first female president,once removed" for Bubbette! Now,if SHE could be the VP and then arrange to have Howdy whacked after an appropriate waiting time (90 seconds or so),she might sign on to it,but that's it.
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@Applewood
While Howdy Doody was popular with children 50 years ago,the younger voters of today and the illegal votes have never heard of him,so why would they vote for Bubbette! Jr?
Not gonna happen. Chelsea has all the personal appeal of a sea sponge. And soaking up contributions to the Clinton Foundations is all she'll ever be good for.
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Can't happen. Bloomberg and Clinton are from the same State.
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Not gonna happen. Chelsea has all the personal appeal of a sea sponge. And soaking up contributions to the Clinton Foundations is all she'll ever be good for.
@skeeter
To put it as bluntly as possible,she's not very smart and we know this because she had to change majors to keep from flunking out of a left coast college while her parents were in the WH,and she is now married into one of the most financially powerful banking families in the world and has seats on several boards she never sits in on. In short,she is a laundry lady.
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Can't happen. Bloomberg and Clinton are from the same State.
Yes. The President and VP can be from the same state. The electoral college does come into play though; Electoral College voters, can not cast both of their votes for two people from their home state.
Twelfth Amendment:
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; -- ....
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xii
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Can't happen. Bloomberg and Clinton are from the same State.
The rumor going around is that Bloomberg will change his official residence to one of the out-of-state homes he owns to get around the same state issue.
But all of this is rumor. Frankly, I don't buy any of it.
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"Bloomberg considering Hillary Clinton for running mate"
Multiple choice question:
This is:
a. Political suicide
b. Suicide (aka "Arkancide")
c. Crazy
d. All of the above...