Once things started to get serious?
The money begins to evaporate and the candidate’s begin to stop dreaming ….
Especially this time for Democrats with one rich guy in the race and one REALLY rich guy spending money like it’s water….
I believe there will be more drop outs as the voting moves to more diverse and biggest states….
Chances are that it will end up STILL being the two predicted to be still standing by Super Tuesday…
And YES Andrew….
The media DOES have a say in who THEY want to win….
Both ARE moderates….
Will their support (It ain’t much) go to Biden, Buttigieg or Klobuchar?
Former tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday night that he has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race.
The big picture: Yang, who’s never held public office, centered his campaign on universal basic income, wherein he proposed giving every American over 18 years of age $1,000 each month.
The state of play: Consistent mid-range polling landed Yang a spot on all six of the first debate stages — including as the only person of color in the December and February debate.
- Yang announced his decision in multiple media interviews.
- He had failed to qualify for the January debate. He asked the Democratic National Committee to commission more early state qualifying polls prior to the event, which the committee declined, per The Daily Beast.
- He’d hoped more opportunities to qualify could boost diversity on the debate stage, the Beast notes.
- He later qualified again for the first February debate.
Between the lines: Yang argued he was dismissed by the media as a legitimate candidate,…
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday evening, per the AP.
The big picture: Bennet brought a moderate tilt to the Democratic stage, favoring incremental steps to broaden health care coverage versus Medicare for All, and working with a group of Senate Democrats that moved to deregulate banks.
- While such middle-left stances could have been marketable in previous elections, they fell short this cycle. In both polling and debates, Bennet failed to have any major breakaway moments, leaving him off the October, November and December debate stages and solidifying his campaign’s demise.
What’s next: Bennet is not up for reelection in the Senate until 2022….
image…wcvb.com
The Yang Gang will go mostly to Bernie. The Bennet Bunch, whatever Arby’s booth they meet in, are probably thinking about Bloomberg.
We’ll see on the Yang turnover….
I’ll keep pointing out….
The states coming up have different demographics and voting patterns…
As I say ….
I do NOT expect Pete na Amy to have much ‘legs’ going into Super Tuesday and coming out….
I’m hearing Klobuchar people all hyped up about running a national campaign with like 50 people max in some states…
This isn’t gonna work against the start power of Sanders and Biden….
Certainly will no match for Bloomberg…
And Buttiegg IS gonna run into a brick wall I would think….
I could be wrong…
But the future is gonna be rough fro the two….
To the best of my knowledge, only the 1996 GOP primary in NH saw the top three all in the 20 percent range.
So, at the moment it is feasible that Buttigieg could catch and pass Sanders in NH (though I doubt it).
What is a person for Klobuchar (or Biden) to root for in this situation? You don’t want Mayor Pete to win because that would make things even worse for your candidate but you probably also already really don’t want Sanders to get closer to the nomination.
It’s exactly how I felt watching Trump vs. Cruz (but I still always rooted for Trump to lose)
And Bloomberg probably loves this. He just has to watch Buttigieg and Klobuchar, neither with any sort of tremendous national organization.. (especially not Amy) cannibalize each other.
I will pointy out in the abreaction post tomorrow that the majority of the vote went to so called moderates…
THAT IS NOT good for Sanders…
I have pointed out that they Democratic establishment IS gonna come together in the end to try clip Bernie Sanders wins, even it means jumping on the Bloomberg band wagon…
As we have pointed out here and you have championed….
Bernie Sanders IS who Donald Trump and Republicans would LOVE to run against….
Tagged as a Socialist?
He would NEVER be able to pull off a win….
I don’t care what you Hera about Democrats backing Bernie….
There are a LOT that would simply sit out the election if he was able to do a ‘Trump’ on their party…
“I will pointy out in the abreaction post tomorrow…”
Auto-Correct strikes again!
If only Washington still had the Auto-Correct that the Framers created …
I keep flashing back to the 1996 NH Primary for Republicans and I remember being a nervous wreck. (Lamar!) came a few percent away from passing Dole for 2nd place, which would have legitimately meant the end for Dole had that happened. So, at least after that the thought was that people would mobilize just to stop Buchanan.
Then things got weirder and Forbes won Delaware and Arizona and I remember it was very late at night that Dole passed Buchanan to get second place in Arizona (and he won the Dakotas) so it was all looking better after that.
I don’t see how anyonc who wants to give every American $1000 per month would be considered a moderate (as James suggests), but for some reason James never displayed the hatred towards Yang that he has towards others. Anyway, I suspect that Yang’s support will disproportionately go to Bernie and Warren.
Bennett doesn’t have any support to lose.