The New York Times says insiders are still fishing for a better candidate for the Democrat party’s 2020 presidential nomination. After multiple debates among scores of candidates, millions of dollars spent, and exhaustive polling, the Democratic establishment still wishes it had someone who could beat President Donald Trump.
An objective observer would think the Democrat presidential candidates are committing electoral suicide after their performances in recent debates. On guns, climate, immigration, health care and more, they’ve staked out extreme Progressive positions which will dog their eventual nominee in the general election contest. Will even one candidate get off the Left-wing crazy train before it goes completely off the rails?
Democrat Congressman James Clyburn, SC, says he doubts the Bill of Rights would pass in 2019, because he meets many people who want to uproot it. Are our Constitutional guarantees in such jeopardy that “we the people” might tear them up? Would the first ten Amendments to the Constitution survive a clean up or down vote at the 2020 Democratic National Convention?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren dances a two-step to win the party nomination as she woos Progressives in the revolutionary style of Bernie Sanders, and comforts the rank-and-file faithful Democrats like Joe Biden does. Is she a political master, or merely setting herself up for President Trump’s charges that she’s two-faced, unstable, dishonest…in other words — a politician!
Women now occupy more top positions in Democrat presidential campaigns, and at equal pay, than at any time past. Why has it taken so long for Democrats to treat women with fairness? Does the presence of women in the top echelons of presidential campaigns reshape the competitive landscape for 2020? How can Trump, a known sexist, compete?
John Blake at CNN says that President Trump has been better for Progressives than Barack Obama ever was. Not only have the 45th president’s policies and Tweets generated a ‘Trumplash’ that drives women, Blacks, Latinos and Asians into the arms of the Democrats, but he’s actually reinforced the idea that big government can be good.
Tom Steyer, who has led a two year campaign to impeach President Trump, and devoted years as a climate crusader alarmed at global warming, just announced he’ll spend $100 million to get the Democratic nomination for president. Can Steyer’s billions buy the White House? Should the Democrats pick a wealthy populist outsider to face Trump? How long can Progressives endure a rich, white, male, heterosexual, professing Christian, candidate?
For all their talk of tolerance and equality, racism rips the Democrats apart in their first presidential debate. Kamala Harris forces herself into the top tier when she takes a shot at Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden. Can Biden survive this battle for the soul of the Democratic party? Is Harris the perfect presidential nominee because she’s willing to do anything to win?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon, suggesting billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos pays workers “starvation wages”, and should offer more benefits and pay more taxes. Surprisingly, the major Democrat donor’s company punches back.
Josh Marshall, at TalkingPointsMemo.com, prepares Progressives for the possibility that President Trump loses the 2020 election…hugely! Trumps lagging popularity, the majority planning to vote against him, his weakness in the rust belt states, and recent surprising polling in Texas, all seem to map the anatomy of a shocking Democratic victory.
The presidential polling dominance of former Vice President Joe Biden contradicts the narrative that Democrats want the DNC to tack hard Left. Despite Socialist-wannabe insurgencies — from Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, and others — the rise and rule of Biden seems to show that moderate Democrats still own the DNC.
Democratic candidates for president, at an event run by the Rev. Al Sharpton, say they support paying reparations to the descendants of slaves. Bill Whittle and Scott Ott say: “Let’s do it,” but for different reasons. Stephen Green leads the examination of this quadrennial Democratic issue.
Politico reports that there are too many Democrat candidates running for president in the 2020 race….according to “Science.” Voters can’t possibly choose among them. Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott have a grown-up conversation with Science about this assertion.
Beto O’Rourke officially launches his 2020 presidential campaign with lofty speech designed to unite Americans. But Bill Whittle says Beto’s policies ignore real problems, and hurt the people he pretends to love — immigrants and the poor. Will “the man from the border” pose a threat to President Trump, who threatens to close the border?
Undetected cultural shifts blindsided sure-bet Hillary Clinton in 2016. What does the current Zeitgeist hold for incumbent sure-bet President Donald Trump in 2020?