I don’t think Yang is stupid: he knows he’s got a cult and that’s it. But, it worked for Ron Paul. I don’t see Yang hawking gold on infomercials, but he will find a way to turn his ‘campaign’ into $$$
Hard question because it’s hard to identify who is a Beto supporter. Twitter isn’t the real world but yesterday there were a lot of ‘former Beto supporters’ viciously trolling Pete. I’m not sure they were actual Beto supporters though. The intensity of their attacks, similar posts, and coordination leads me to believe that they’re actually supporters of another candidate, just wanted an ‘innocent’ way to attack Pete. I didn’t bother going through their timelines, I just blocked and moved on.
Obviously, his October fundraising fell off a cliff now that the El Paso shooting is in the past and his increasingly bizarre behavior wore thin. The number one domestic issue in this primary is health care and not guns. Any Democrat that wins the nomination is going to be called a gun grabber anyway.
Of course he says that in public. Can you imagine if he said something like “honestly, we’re just as surprised as you all are. I didn’t think we’d make it this far?”
That’s why I figure there’s nothing to lose from advocating banning assault weapons altogether. What are they going to say - “the Dems are gun-grabbers, and we really mean it this time!” ? 
Yep. As long as you have “it” basic technical competence is more than enough. And Pete has “it”. The rest? Fantastic in various offices of an administration, but The Oval is no place for a one trick pony. That job requires the ability to direct the ponies while selling tickets to the show.
And really, who doesn’t want to see a “debate” between Pete & Donald?
Given that Beto was polling at about 2% which is smaller than the MOE of most polls, whatever bump any other candidates get from Beto dropping out would likely be indistinguishable from (a) other poll movements, and (b) statistical noise.
To see which one has the better bullshit? Lordy.
Dude, you slay me!
There may be some voters for whom vaguely-defined “presence” is enough, and Buttigieg might well win a sizeable fraction of those voters. But I’m not one of them. To me, experience matters, and Buttigieg has none worth mentioning.
Wait a few years, let him win office as a governor or a senator, or at least as a representative, and I’ll take another look at him. And don’t tell me that he can’t win those offices: If he doesn’t have enough of “it”, whatever “it” is, to win a House seat, then he certainly doesn’t have enough of “it” to run for President.
They may be trolls but based on the Beto supporters I know they could be genuine. They’ve been absolutely vicious about Pete all along (“NO ONE IS GOING TO VOTE FOR A GAY MAYOR!!!”) and it does seem to stem from the fact that Pete has drawn a sizable portion of the people looking for a young populist outsider candidate, which was Beto’s base. They blame him (and the media) specifically for the failure of Beto’s campaign.
It worked for Ron Paul, but correct my failing memory because I can’t recall a Ron Paul administration.
Right: Yang, like Paul, will not win the Presidency, but Yang, like Paul, will find a way to still profit from his few but ardent supporters.
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post:
Dear Eric and Michael,
Kindly fuck off.
Yours sincerely,
Everyone
More Democratic candidates doesn’t really matter. They probably won’t catch on or get more than a few percent in the early states, and so they’ll drop out. There’s a good chance they won’t even make any of the remaining debates. And if they do, it means they’re catching on and have a good message, which is a good thing for the contest.
EDIT: Eric Holder could be a boon for non-Biden candidates, as he could take a significant chunk of Biden’s supporters.
Bloomberg, while he’s fine for NYC, is still seen by many Democrats as a carpetbagger and Holder is an absolute charisma-free zone. I mean, he makes Mondale looks peppy by comparison.
I’d rather continue the winnowing process than add more distractions to the mix.
I have doubts that either candidate will move beyond the rumor stage, but I really don’t understand how Holder would possibly get in at this stage. Michael Bloomberg has tens of billions of dollars to blow on this, he could hire people to knock on every door in Iowa and still have money left over to buy a small country. But Eric Holder would be starting from close to zero.
I think Susan Rice would be a good candidate.