2020 Presidential Campaign - It’s on

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I agree with most of what you said. The things I disagree with is 'Trumps racist base' and 'Trump will refuse to leave'. I think that Trump refusing to leave because he doesn't get re-elected is quite an odd leap with no evidence to suggest it. He isn't trying to be a dictator, he relies on votes, I bet you 100% that if Trump dosen't get re-elected he will simply leave, he isn't going to try to stay when someone else gets elected. It's pointless to debate that or predict it, I seriously doubt that is going to be an issue, time will tell.

The other point, I think it is insane that people suggest that Trumps base is racist, I get tired of hearing that, it derives from white supremacists supporting him, white supremacists make up a very tiny fraction of 1% of the population, outside of that, which isn't enough to amount to anything and that is not his base, it leaps onto a conspiracy that the majority of people who voted for Trump are racist and there is absolutely no evidence of this proposal. I seriously doubt that the incredibly small portion of white supremacists are going to start trouble if trump doesn't get elected, they are heavily outnumbered, you are talking about an estimated 150,000 people out of 327 million, that's not enough people to help anyone, therefor it would be rather ridiculous to openly speak out for the as a political candidate and would guarantee political courier suicide.

Also add in that 18% to 20% of Bernie Sanders supporters voted for Trump because they did not want to vote for Hillary. I do agree that more than likely that is the only reason he won, because the only other option was Hillary, IMO that would be a even more horrible option than Trump, that woman just strikes me as pure evil and willing to lie about anything to get votes.

I wrote "racist element" of his base not that his whole base is racist.

While he won't leave is a leap, I think it is a plausible one. I believe he will claim his election loss was "fake news" a conspiracy of the "deep state". He has been laying the groundwork for this. In 2016 he did not commit to accepting the results why would he this time, after all a lot of elements of the progressives do not think his election in 2016 was legitimate.

Using my best Judgement, I'm thinking on the democratic side it is looking as if Tulsi Gabbard is looking like the best possible option. I don't even know who is campaigning for republicans, could someone suggest good republicans I should check into?

Unlike virtually every other candidate in the 2020 Democratic field, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is not a fan of the Green New Deal, and he wants you to know it.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y, is the biggest star in the Democratic Party at the moment and her Green New Deal, which calls for massive government investment and regulations to fight climate change, is her signature issue.

It’s popular. A whopping 91 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers say they favor candidates who support it, according to a Des Moines Register poll. And all six Senate Democrats running for president co-sponsored Ocasio-Cortez's bill. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke said, “I haven't seen anything better” to fight climate change.

But much of that support may be soft since, much like Medicare for All, many presidential candidates qualify their support by saying they're open to lots of potential ways to fight climate change.


Enter Hickenlooper, who made his opposition to the plan plain in a Washington Post op-ed titled, “The Green New Deal sets us up for failure." His campaign then made sure reporters saw the op-ed and made him available for interviews.

Why?

"I wasn't out there trying to rip anything apart," Hickenlooper told NBC News in a phone interview. “I agree completely with the sense of urgency — we're within a decade or so of suffering irreversible damage of the planet."

He likes the idea of a Green New Deal, just not this one. He pointed to its inclusion of issues like a federal jobs guarantee. His op-ed cited a fact sheet put out by Ocasio-Cortez's office that doesn't reflect the content of her bill and which she later disowned, and criticized the plan for not acknowledging the role of the private sector nor the economic dislocation that would result from abruptly killing the fossil fuel sector.

“Campaigns are about different voices and different positions, and I felt there was a benefit in beginning the discussion around what would a more focused Green New Deal would look like,” he said.

Politically, the move helps Hickenlooper carve the ideological space he hopes to occupy in the crowded primary, which his advisers see as open to big ideas, but pragmatic. It's a position that has sometimes seemed muddled, like when Hickenlooper struggled to answer whether he's a capitalist. The only other candidate to vocally oppose the Green New Deal is former Rep. John Delaney.

For Hickenlooper, who once worked as a geologist in the oil and gas industry and more recently drank fracking fluid to show it was not toxic, a better solution involves bringing industry and environmentalists together and encouraging them to collaborate.

It’s a faith in compromise — critics would say a blind one — informed by his experience in Colorado, where he facilitated a process that led to fracking regulations embraced by both extractors and environmental activists.

Of course, scaling that up to a national level and to many more industries would be another matter entirely. And much of the environmental movement have now moved beyond mere regulations and want to keep carbon in the ground and prevent it from being extracted at all.

But Hickenlooper believes there is always a way to get to a compromise.

“Trust me, people told me when I said I wanted to get industry and the environmentalists to sit down together... 'You are ignorant and naive and that will never happen,'” he recalled. “But in the end it's worked. It takes time, but it's not impossible.”

He will put that belief to the test next week, when he makes a campaign swing through the South in some of the most conservative states in the country: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, South Carolina.

The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary will be held on June 26 and 27 in Miami, NBC News, the host of the debate, announced on Thursday.

MSNBC and Telemundo will also host. Details on the venue, moderators and timing will be announced at a later date, NBC News said in a release.

The debate will also stream online free on NBC News' digital platforms, including NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News Mobile App and OTT apps, in addition to Telemundo’s digital platforms.

The Democratic National Committee previously said the lineups for each debate will be chosen at random, not strictly from how candidates are ranked in polls. To qualify, a candidate will need to either have at least 1 percent support in three qualifying polls, or provide evidence of at least 65,000 unique donors, with a minimum of 200 different donors in at least 20 states. Already, more than a dozen Democratic candidates have launched presidential bid while other big names, like former Vice President Joe Biden, appear poised to enter the race.

If more than 20 candidates reach one of those two qualifications, the top 20 will be selected by using a separate method that rewards contenders for meeting both thresholds, followed by highest polling averages, and then the most unique donors.

There will be 12 debates in total over the 2020 Democratic primary season — the June debate is the first of six scheduled this year, with six more scheduled for 2020. CNN will host the second debate in July.

The flip side of Trump Derangement Syndrome is Democrat Messiah Syndrome, always looking for a savior.

Fake-news media promotes fake-Spanish candidate with fake story about fake heritage.

Associated Press Says Beto Spoke in 'His Native Spanish'

How far will the liberal media go to boost Beto O'Rourke's Hispanic street cred? In an article published today, the Associated Press wrote that in a speech he gave in his hometown of El Paso [emphasis added] :


"O'Rourke also spoke at length in his native Spanish, eliciting loud and sustained cheers."

"Native Spanish?" Sorry, AP, but Beto is an American-born, fourth-generation Irish-American. He doesn't seem ever to have lived in a Spanish-speaking country. His native language is inglés--sorry, English.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ma ... ve-spanish

Beto isn't claiming to be Spanish. One of the most respected media outlets in the world included an adjective by mistake; the AP is as close to objective as they come but it isn't flawless.

Elizabeth Warren also isn't "claiming" to be a Native American in order to "win points with radicals". She does have Native American descent, and her opponents like to use that to attack her. She never spoke publicly about her heritage until people started using it to attack her. If anything, her appeal to "radicals" is that she has apologised for having once described herself as "American Indian" on a form despite not being a tribal citizen.

I don't know much about O'Rourke but both Sanders and Warren have far more radical positions than "being descended from a native" or "thinking black people experience poverty differently". They're also only two of around 20 candidates, and they're noted for being two of the more radical ones.

The vast majority of illegal immigration to the US does not occur from border crossings. If you want to stop illegal immigration, the easiest way of doing it is by making all immigration legal. Now that's a radical position.