Well, if you’re a Senator you’re not going anywhere in national poiltics unless you can establish a national brand. Barack Obama, John McCain, Liz Warren, and now Kristen Gillibrand established brands. Joe Biden too, even though he’s never gone anywhere in primaries. Klobuchar is low profile. In order to be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate she’d either need to do something to differentiate herself from more famous people on issues or style, or become governor of Minnesota and then run on resume, which sometimes works if there’s no one more charismatic or famous in the field.
If she’s good at getting stuff done with Republicans, then she can become the Democrats’ maverick? They haven’t had one of those in awhile.
NY04 Dem was just won by a socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who campaigned on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, a Federal jobs guarantee, and universal college, beating the #4 Democrat in the House.
Congrats to Ocasio-Cortez, showing us you can work your butt off and upset a kingpin. This will give the party a needed nudge to the left. The Moron-In-Chief tweeted that Crowley lost because he didn’t show enough respect to his president. Republicans are gloating. Puh-leeze.
It’s worth noting (only because I’m already seeing “Abolish ICE? They want open borders!”) that the intent here isn’t to have no immigration agency but rather to return to the days of Immigration & Naturalization Service under the Justice Department rather than the post-9/11 ICE headed by Homeland Security.
The left - both moderate left and hard left - is energized, and it’s increasingly looking like they will take the House in 2018. But I see some storm clouds ahead for the Democrats as they try to reconcile their differences before the race in 2020.
Unfortunately, the #4 Democrat in the House is still on the ballot in the general, since he got the endorsement of one of the multitude of tiny parties in New York.
I read something the other day that said that Ocasio-Cortez also won the primary in another district that she didn’t campaign in, with write in votes, but she said she is only interested in serving from the district she was running in.
Dianne Feinstein got the most votes in the California open primary last month, with 44%. Former state Senate leader Kevin De Leon got 12%, which was second best and thus propelled him into the general election against Feinstein. But the California Democratic Party executive board voted this weekend to endorse De Leon, 65% for him, 7% for Feinstein, and 28% for “no endorsement”.
Part of the problem is New York’s terribly complicated and arcane election laws. A candidate can only have his/her name removed from a party line by dying, being convicted of a crime, or moving out of the jurisdiction. Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that Crowley declare his official home in Virginia, where he keeps his congressional residence, but Crowley considers himself a New Yorker.
The real question is how he got on the Working Family Party’s line to begin with, and whether he saw this as a back-up plan in case he got a serious challenge.
You have to love those AOL polls that do not site sources written by lefties. How many people did they poll and where was this poll taken? Such information is not in that article. Hence I’m not buying it.
Even Bill Maher is saying white millennials are trending toward Trump.