Scratch Ticket [Democratic Candidates that dropped out of 2020 race]

[TX-Beau]

She must have woken up and her crystal turned black. I have to admit, I briefly wondered just what a Marianne Administration would look like. Would there be Yogis in the residence, and Pagans in the Rose Garden?

 

[rareboy]

And goodbye to Corey Booker...not his time either.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...gilWTNnAd5Lbfxmu5p8Dv8YuiTnvD3mqKzGRYo3cuZQl8

 

[Alistair]

^ It's a shame. I like Corey.

 

[rareboy]

I had higher hopes for him this time around...although to be honest, I thought he would emerge as one of the Veep front runners.

 

[TX-Beau]

I had higher hopes for him this time around...although to be honest, I thought he would emerge as one of the Veep front runners.

They pretty much have to choose a woman one way or another.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Booker has an air of permanent melancholy around him. I think his sad eyebrows did him in. I know that sounds strange, but I think voters react in viscerally sub-rational ways to candidates.

edit to add:

Trump 6' 3"
Biden and Bernie 6' 0"
Buttigieg and Warren 5' 8"

 

[Rickrock]

I liked Cory Booker, also, but I didn't think that he would make it.

 

[Telstra]

you know who dropped out

 

[Telstra]

so the jub ''experts'', guest who drop out next??

And my prediction will come true for that candidate on the other thread

 

[cityboy-stl]

We need Booker in the Senate.

 

[rareboy]

you know who dropped out

You are late to the party. BTW. His name is Cory Booker.

 

[rareboy]

so the jub ''experts'', guest who drop out next??

And my prediction will come true for that candidate on the other thread

After Iowa the no hopers will all drop away. And after Super Tuesday, anyone not polling in double digits will also leave the race.

 

[Telstra]

my non expert opinion,
Warren is going down hill after accusing Bernie of something and not shaking his hand.

 

[rareboy]

John Who? Most people will ask themselves.

Delaney has been a non-starter from the gate and it looks like he is going to avoid getting totally ignored in the Iowa caucus next week. One assumes that whatever money he had raised has now been spent and that it was clear there were no more donors who would invest in his lacklustre middle of the road campaign.

https://www.axios.com/john-delaney-...J9nJUp_6Z4H0KdZD3grwFGiVcXGCeJiNmN4y8IseilR6Q

 

[rareboy]

I'll just bet that you'd forgotten that Michael Bennett was even running for the Democratic nomination.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/11/7561...8CRVgb_rlAAexy5-K3BfSTZS0PoHHPh5cgVi90XIWSrNY

Lokk for him on MSNBC, I suspect.

 

[rareboy]

And of course, polling at less than 4%, Yang has finally thrown in the towel as well.

Hopefully now he will throw his full support behind one of the other candidates and tell his followers to grow the fuck up, hold their nose and vote for the Democratic candidate in order to unseat Trump.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/11/8023...drew-yang-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race

 

[rareboy]

And for weeks Yang and others have been lamenting that he is the only candidate of 'colour' in the race....conveniently forgetting the forgettable Deval Patrick...who has also decided that invisibility isn't a great strategy.

https://www.axios.com/deval-patrick...ace-d32e9911-c1a9-4498-a653-00d86bab9409.html

 

[Sausy]

I'll just bet that you'd forgotten that Michael Bennett was even running for the Democratic nomination.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/11/7561...8CRVgb_rlAAexy5-K3BfSTZS0PoHHPh5cgVi90XIWSrNY

Lokk for him on MSNBC, I suspect.

He has two more years before he's up for re-election, he won't be joining Claire McCaskill soon(though I wish she were still in the Senate over the awful Repug Josh Hawley).

 

[Telstra]

And of course, polling at less than 4%, Yang has finally thrown in the towel as well.

Hopefully now he will throw his full support behind one of the other candidates and tell his followers to grow the fuck up, hold their nose and vote for the Democratic candidate in order to unseat Trump.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/11/8023...drew-yang-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race

He was on the record saying he will support who ever the nominee is.
However he ONLY endorse a candidate he adopted some of his main policies like ubi freedom dividend, democracy dollars, taking people's wellbeing statistics into account and not just gdp ... etc

 

[opinterph]

[Yang] ONLY endorse a candidate he adopted some of his main policies like ubi freedom dividend, democracy dollars, taking people's wellbeing statistics into account and not just gdp ... etc

You are embellishing the truth with false information. He said he would immediately endorse any candidate who embraced his UBI proposal, though it was obvious that he didn’t expect any of them to do so. He did not mention “freedom dividend,” “democracy dollars,” or “wellbeing statistics” in that interview.