Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is driving in the same lane as her Vermont counterpart from the Senate, Bernie Sanders. One will eventually run the other off the road. I think Warren wins that. She has the same socialist polices as Bernie without the gruff personality. Plus, she's a woman, which
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In a field dominated by third and fourth tier candidates struggling to break 1%, Harris and Warren stand out as solid second tier candidates. But I don't see either as ever displacing Biden. Neither are seen as electable as Biden. But more importantly, they are not even winning their home states in the polls. A California poll released yesterday has Harris in 4th place in her home state, with just 13%. (Warren in the California poll is actually second in that state with 19%.) A Massachusetts poll earlier this week, had Warren in second, but with only 10%. Biden led the poll in both states.
Meanwhile, former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are attempting to drive in the same lane. (Sorry for continuing to use that tired metaphor.) O'Rourke is barely a second tier candidate. At his rallies, O'Rourke appears to be desperately trying to channel President John Kennedy and that schtick is not selling nationally like it did in Texas. "Mayor Pete," meanwhile, has been the most impressive candidate on the campaign trail. He has displayed a temperament and intellect that is a wonderful contrast to President Trump. Buttigieg also has a great resume, including military service that contrasts nicely with Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump. I do have doubts about his ability to transition after a primary to run a general election, but of all the candidates who could break through and displace Biden as the nominee, my money would be on Buttigieg.
While there are some excellent candidates in the third tier, I think the odds of one of those candidates breaking from the back of the pack and sprinting by Biden are long. (See, I changed metaphors - horse racing!) But one of them, not sure which one, will eventually have a moment and move up into the second tier. But "a moment" among the leaders is all they are likely to have.
In short, I don't think the Democratic nomination is as wide open as people think it is.
I do note the newest entry into the Democratic race, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (gruh - vel'). Gravel has led a very interesting life. No candidate, not even Biden, can match his personal, professional and political experience...which is not surprising since he's 89 years old. Gravel is also known for the greatest political commercial ever made.
Vote Gravel!
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Among the 22 or so wanna be candidates in the D clown car there are no conservatives at all (even if Tucker Carlson can quote the lying lady Warren saying something intelligent. But, if you will recall, there were really no conservatives in the R primary either except for now President Trump. The D's offer no one of any accomplishments and most will have to hide from what they actually have done (e.g. staying in the closet until elected). Polling, as you still don't know, is useless and worse, just a tool to manipulate weaker minds. Meanwhile, looking around Indiana's R leadership I don't see any conservatives at all. They don't exist? They are unfunded but exist somewhere? They are not going to win anything in Indiana anytime soon.
Biden will implode sooner rather than later because his faculties are slow motion, his integrity does not exist, there are no good reasons to vote for him. Of course, that is true of all the occupants of the clown car and it is too bad because opportunity exists for the D party to be preserved rather than imploded.....which is what it is doing.
I'm sorry, you lost me when you called Trump, a lifelong liberal Democrat, a "conservative." Record and soaring deficits. Tariffs galore. A foreign policy that embraces dictators while undermining our allies. Unprecedented corruption. A chief executive who daily takes a dump on our Constitution and who has zero respect for American democratic values. Sorry, there is no "conservative" in the White House. Not even close.
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