The 2020 Presidential race

Bloomberg still has not announced that he'll run for President – although he said eight months ago that he wouldn't.

Michael Bloomberg files federal paperwork for 2020 Presidential bid

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/poli...565286202.html

The 2020 election will be a referendum on Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016 but won the Presidency because of the Electoral College's un-democratic rule that "some votes count more than others." Democrats can not afford to take for granted that Republicans will lose in 2020. They need to hurry up and decide on a candidate.

With impeachment looming, both Republicans and Democrats are on edge about 2020
Los Angeles Times, Nov 22 2019 12:35 PM

President Trump is close to being impeached by the House. His party just lost two gubernatorial races in conservative states and control of the Virginia legislature. House Republicans have been stampeding toward retirement. It looks like Democrats are on a roll but you wouldn’t know it from the high-anxiety mood of the party.

Republicans are no calmer. They worry about their mercurial President and the impact he could have on races down the ballot in 2020. Party strategists doubt they can win back a majority in the House. Some fear they could lose control of the Senate. The result, as Washington moves toward an impeachment showdown, is a rare chapter in American politics when members of both parties seem wracked with insecurity.

The anxiety on both sides is a departure from the political norm. Usually one party or the other has a clear upper hand, especially when an incumbent is running for reelection. Trump is one of the most vulnerable incumbents to seek reelection since the Great Depression in the 1930s: His approval rating has remained stuck below 50% for the entirety of his presidency.

Democrats have not experienced the political backlash some feared from launching their impeachment inquiry. Neither have the hearings produced narrative-changing revelations that Republicans feared could force them to abandon the President.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...dge-about-2020

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick thinks he can become President. I think he needs to think again.

Deval Patrick cancels event at Morehouse College where only two people showed up

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019...ple-showed-up/

Bloomberg was a Democrat. Then he became a Republican. Then he became an independent. Now he's a Democrat again. He's also the ninth-wealthiest American and the 14th-wealthiest person in the world. And, as expected, he's running for President. He's optimistic that if one white septuagenarian billionaire can get elected, so can he.

Michael Bloomberg is the latest 2020 Democratic hopeful

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/24/polit...ion/index.html

Political writer, talk-show host and former attorney Dean Obeidallah lived in New York City when Michael Bloomberg was Mayor. He offers a litany of reasons why Democratic voters should reject Bloomberg's candidacy.

Opinion: Bloomberg is the last thing we need after Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/24/opini...lah/index.html

The wealthiest men to serve as United States President are, in order of net worth adjusted for inflation, Donald Trump, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson. Trump's worth is estimated at $3.1 billion, more than that of the previous 44 Presidents combined. Michael Bloomberg's wealth is fifty-two billion dollars. Just think if he'd use some of that money to build homeless shelters and drug treatment centers instead of spending huge sums on political ads for a race he has zero chance of winning.

Bernie lets it rip against Bloomberg 'arrogance'
Sanders says the latest candidate to enter the race is trying to "buy an election" and is "undermining" American democracy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...rg-2020-073846

Elizabeth Warren's support among Democratic voters has fallen by 50% since last month. It is obvious that "Medicare For All" and posing for selfies will not be enough to propel her into the White House.

Warren nosedives in new nationwide poll
The latest Quinnipiac poll also shows Buttigieg surging into second.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...bs-poll-074054

Following Nixon's Watergate scandal and impending impeachment, the opposing party won the White House. Following Clinton's impeachment, the opposing party won the White House. CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein says the Ukraine scandal will solidify opposition to Trump and Democrats will take advantage of it. He expects Trump's re-election strategy will be to savagely attack his Democratic opponent and insist he's "the lesser of two evils." Nope, sorry. Trump is the biggest evil.

Analysis: What past impeachments tell us about Trump's 2020 prospects

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/polit...ump/index.html

Attention, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris: If you withdraw from the campaign now, you will spare yourselves any further embarrassment.

Super PAC backing Booker will shut down

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...ut-down-074275

Kamala Harris aide bolts to Bloomberg campaign

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...ampaign-074243

If Michael Bloomberg thinks he can become President by spending millions more dollars on political ads than Tom Steyer is spending, he should probably reconsider.

New Hampshire voters to Tom Steyer: Make it stop!
The billionaire candidate is flooding New Hampshire with online ads. One reporter sat through 17 of them in an hour of YouTube viewing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...mpshire-074223

I will pause for a few seconds so everyone can exclaim, "Who???"

Joe Sestak ends long-shot 2020 Democratic Presidential campaign

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/polit...ign/index.html

Harris said choosing to drop out of the race was "one of the hardest decisions" of her life. Huh! I would think it would be an easy decision, considering her poll numbers were only 3 or 4 percent.

Kamala Harris ends 2020 Presidential campaign

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/polit...bid/index.html

In the past three days, three Democratic candidates have dropped out of the Presidential race. At this rate, by early February there will be only two candidates left.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock drops out of Presidential race

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ff7_story.html

In an editorial in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Carla Hall wrote that it was "exhilarating to see a smart, accomplished, powerful Senator who is also a black woman running for President" and "depressing" to see Kamala Harris withdraw from the race after her poll numbers plummeted. Hall concluded, "The question is how she will retool her image. Depending on who is slated to get the nomination, she could be a vice presidential candidate." Joe Biden is thinking the same thing.

Joe Biden: 'Of course' I would consider Kamala Harris as VP pick

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/polit...ick/index.html

Not all the world is "laughing at" Trump. Here in the United States, Trump's lies, cover-ups, incompetence, racism, bigotry, nasty tweets, abuse of power, stonewalling, obstruction of Congress, reckless behavior, emotional instability and unconstitutional actions have most of us in tears.

Biden releases viral campaign ad slamming Trump: 'A President the world is laughing at'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elect...-at/ar-BBXNFFX

Bloomberg apparently believes Americans don't care about a candidate's ethics, political positions and qualifications and will vote for whomever spends the most money on campaign ads.

Mike Bloomberg denies 'buying' the 2020 Democratic primary
"I'm doing exactly the same thing they're doing, except that I am using my own money," Bloomberg said about the other candidates.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael...clusive-video/

AS a result of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pushing an unpopular "Medicare for all" plan and Emperor Trump continuing to push the false story that Joe and Hunter Biden committed wrongdoing in Ukraine, Joe Biden is surging in popularity and in fundraising. Three hundred twenty-six days till Election Day.

Analysis: How Joe Biden got his groove back

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/polit...ats/index.html

In 2016, "rigged" was Donald Trump's favorite word: The polls are rigged, the poll questions are rigged, the debates are rigged, the nominating conventions are rigged, the primaries are rigged, the election is rigged, the ballots are rigged, the voting machines are rigged. Then Trump lost the popular vote but became President anyway and, lo and behold, he quit saying everything was rigged. And that brings us to 2020:

Trump considering skipping general election debates in 2020

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ebates-in-2020

Emperor Trump is a racist, bigoted white nationalist who insults and belittles black men, black mayors, black Congresswomen and black communities. At a June 2016 rally in Redding, Trump saw a black man in the crowd and exclaimed, "Look at my African American over here! Look at him! Isn't he great?" His African American? Wow. (That man, Gregory Cheadle, quit the Republican party three months ago because of Trump's never-ending racism.) Only 10% of blacks approve of Trump's job as President and only 7% say they will vote to re-elect him. The Trump campaign is now running ads in black-owned newspapers and on black-owned radio stations, hoping to increase Trump's appeal to black voters. Yeah, trying to buy votes by spending huge sums of money on self-serving, braggadocio-filled political ads. Good luck with that.

Trump shocks black voters – by trying to get their votes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elect...tes/ar-AAK5F2D

Trump "has neither the moral compass nor the temperament to serve," said the founders of the Lincoln Project super PAC. Heck, I could have told them that a decade ago!

George Conway and other conservative critics launch PAC to take down Trump
"As Americans, we must stem the damage he and his followers are doing to the
rule of law, the Constitution and the American character," the group wrote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...d-trump-086426