With Warren and Gabbard announcing, we have already reached the most women to ever run in a presidential primary.
Campaign site: https://2020.kirstengillibrand.com/
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Kirsten Gillibrand announces 2020 presidential run
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With Warren and Gabbard announcing, we have already reached the most women to ever run in a presidential primary.
Campaign site: https://2020.kirstengillibrand.com/
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Nobody will care about this considering the amount of senators who are also running. Like maybe Tulsi will attack her but it won't be notable.
After the embarrassing beer episode I think we could disqualify Warren already. She would be curb stomped by Trump. Hell, she is already!
People coined that over a year ago. Let's see if she's charismatic and shrewd enough to shake off those obvious comparisons.
Where's Beto in all of this? Will he wait until the last possible moment?
Is he still at his dentist's?
Is he still at his dentist's?
He's supposedly making an announcement with Oprah in February
Still she didn't have to make that commitment. It was dumb.
Like I don't even think Sherrod Brown committed 100% to not running for POTUS at any point and he ran in a state Trump won by more than 10 points
With all the Beto hype, I have to ask if he's interested in the job? Because I haven't seen him heavily imply his intent the same way Biden/Kamala/Gillibrand have/had been telegraphing.
A nice thing to include and promote, but centering your campaign about it will not be a successful strategy if she wants to win.
I think he feels that circumstances are pushing him towards doing it out of necessity, he's a strong campaigner and has a chance of taking down Trump.
Oh shit, he's getting interviewed by Oprah?! He's so going to announce he's running then isn't he?
I've said it before and I'll stick with it: a Beto/Kamala dem ticket is the best bet to unseat Trump. I don't think the US has ever had a female VP before either!
And yet he appears on top or near the top of many polls. I think he's playing hard to get and let people continue speculating.
Women helped Dems take back the house. It's not a bad strategy IF her campaign is intersectional
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If it's white feminism, nobody's gonna be interested. A good move would be making trans women and WOC a focal point of her announcement video.
Probably because they've all been gearing up for years now, while he was running for Senate only a few months and and is now considering a presidential run since November.
That could help her stand out in the primaries, but that kind of messaging/identity politics won't win the Rust Belt or other swing states. It will be effective in some places, but I wouldn't enter the general with that being the big issue. Immigration, healthcare, and economy will be huge in 2020.
I don't wanna see dems fighting or attacking each other or even if there is a primary I don't even see debates. It will only help trump.
Well ok maybe debates but I am afraid they are just gonna give ammunition to trump
Right. Even Obama talked to him personally.
I don't think that bodes well for his eventual campaign, but he might get more into it the deeper in the cycle we go.
Everyone is going to be hard to the left of Trump's current stances, so that won't matter. Trump's "style," if you can call it one, is to personally attacked people regardless. See: His attacks on Warren. There's no "fuel" the debates or the RNC could give him that would change his path.
I understand being anxious about Trump but there's a healthy amount of shrewdness and there's crippling paranoia.
Trump exists in a world of his own. He makes up ammunition where none existed before. Dems will not win by depriving him of "material", if they win it will be on taking him to task for his failures.
I'm skeptical about her right now. Open to having my mind changed.
Before she entered politics, she was a service partner at a big law firm. Her clients were almost all big tobacco. If she were able to work at Chadbourne & Parke, she could've probably easily gotten a job elsewhere in the private sector. That she was cool repping that kind of clientele seems to indicate the public interest was a really low priority in her pre-political life. She comes from a family of prominent NY Democrats, so did she just trip into running for office? I don't see any evidence she had some burning passion for public service.
She started out a "Blue Dog" Democrat. Staunch centrist. Then Bernie took off during the last election. The burgeoning Me Too movement. And she started shifting to the left and taking more progressive positions. Good for her for reading the tea leaves, I guess. But she hasn't communicated (to my satisfaction, at least) what animated this change. It looks like it's mostly political maneuvering.
For those who really like her, why do you like her so much? I'm trying to learn more.
Before she entered politics, she was a service partner at a big law firm. Her clients were almost all big tobacco. If she were able to work at Chadbourne & Parke, she could've probably easily gotten a job elsewhere in the private sector. That she was cool repping that kind of clientele seems to indicate the public interest was a really low priority in her pre-political life. She comes from a family of prominent NY Democrats, so did she just trip into running for office? I don't see any evidence she had some burning passion for public service.
She started out a "Blue Dog" Democrat. Staunch centrist. Then Bernie took off during the last election. The burgeoning Me Too movement. And she started shifting to the left and taking more progressive positions. Good for her for reading the tea leaves, I guess. But she hasn't communicated (to my satisfaction, at least) what animated this change. It looks like it's mostly political maneuvering.
For those who really like her, why do you like her so much? I'm trying to learn more.
Opportunism is a good trait to have in a Democrat. It reflects that she's hungry for the job.
I assume he is going to be a VP for one of them, but if he decided to run, hes got my vote.
