2020 not so far away

If a Republican challenges Trump for the nomination, I will vote Republican in the primary to give the challenger a boost. I will never ever vote Republican in an actual election, however.

Now THAT’S a smart strategy.

Two things.

Okay, three.

Andy Cuomo (who is not even a thin shadow of his father, the late Mario Cuomo), has said he won't run for president. Of course in the world of politics things change quickly. Plus, notice how in the months leading up to his primary run for reelection, he began shaping himself (rather crudely) into something of a progressive. This was done in part to better his showing against his challenger, Cynthia Nixon. In other words, Cuomo is an unctuous chap. Be alert and careful when near him.


Cuomo is not a progressive. He is a borderline Republican wearing a banner such says, I'm a Democrat, just like my daddy, so vote for me.'.

Neither is Cuomo trustworthy.

Second, time to remember the scuzzy creature who fights with Cuomo all the time, claims to be a progressive...a claim he has made for a long time and at times touches upon the edges of. Yes, Warren Wilhelm, Jr., better known as NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio. He has already made several trips out to Iowa and has long cozied up with Bernie Sanders. The DeBlasio family even took a vacation to Sanders' Lake Champlain summer home. He is desperate to eventually be President.

The third in this series is not likely to actually run; he may however throw things in a different, calmer, more useful direction. Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. There's an article on this located in line at www.theweek.com titled Michael Bloomberg wants to be your boring president.
www.theweek.com/speedreads/800815/Michael-bloomberg-wants-boring-president


Bloomberg and Kevin Sheekey (his political aide) spoke with Ben Smith of BuzzFeed indicating that elections are about swings and that it's time to be boring.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/mike-bloomberg-president-2020-campaign

The suggestions also made that if Bloomberg doesn't go for it, Hickenlooper (Colorado), Jay Inslee (Washington) or Steve Bullock (Montana), Gina Raimondo (Rhode Island) would be good possibilities, as well as Stacy Abrams of Georgia (although so soon after a run for governor there it would be, I feel, ill advised if she wins in November. It would not give her enough time to establish a record of leadership as to governor).

Whatever happens, it would helpful if the often foolhardy Dems would get their act together early on and unite behind one person.

Thank you for that review.

Helpful to see from at least one NYer's perspective.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/nikki-haley-president-2020-892058

2020 is such an oxymoron re the election. Katie, bar the effing door. America is in epic fruit salad turnover mode.

Anything can happen. Some old bean from bygone era may waddle in to unseat Trump. I expect Flake, Rand Paul, and five other Republicans are in talks now with donors and ‘exploratory committees’.

Somebody named Bush is getting groomed.

About 12 on the D side, unknowns, unfortunately well-knowns— I hope the drooling Kennedy won’t sign up.

This will be one for the books.

So, will Kanye have a go at it?

They did it to NY... He’s assembled a machine to rival Hillary’s—and that corrupt asshole from Virginia is pulling Clinton apron strings... McAuliffe.

Barring some major scandal, no one is going to mount an even remotely serious challenge against Trump. He has over 90% approval with Republicans.

God knows who the Dems will run, but he or she will have to go radical to win the nomination. It's the Age of McGovern all over again.

90% huh? Care to provide a linked source?

Iowa and NH must be well outside of the group FdA polled

By the way Finn, remember that peanut farmer back in '76? Nobody would ever have thought he'd make it to the White House, and yet, he did.

Until a candidate appears, there's no way of knowing what'll happen.

Currently 84% - down from 88% - Close enough to 90% to make a primary challenge feckless.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/01/trumps-approval-ratings-so-far-are-unusually-stable-and-deeply-partisan/

A lot of people did. He was running against a disgraced Republican's replacement.

Then what is the point of a thread like this one?

I feel like this is wishful thinking. I know opposition from an incumbent president’s party is very unusual in normal party politics, but I think we can agree that statement doesn’t apply here.

If Carter’s dismal presidential performance drew a Kennedy to oppose him, surely you realize there will be some guys stepping up as self-appointed saviors, attempting to wake America up from her long national nightmare.

The party is split in support of him. This isn’t news.

He’ll be opposed from the inside, but who’s to say which direction the pendulum will swing?

A great deal of what will occur in the 2020 primaries and National election will hinge on what happens both in the midterms and the two years hence.

I don't agree at all.

It takes money to run a campaign. Very few people with money to invest in campaigns will do so for a loser.

Here in Texas, Gov. Abbott might as well be running unopposed. His opponent, irrespective of her positions, is a joke. I have never seen a campaign ad on her behalf and I don't expect to anytime soon.

jeff Flake is already going to New Hampshire and Idaho. He thinks he is the "savior." So what? It doesn't cost him a cent and what else has he to do?

The Republican Party is not split in support of Trump unless you consider an 84-16 split serious.

Wow!

How sage.

Again, why are you participating in a thread that is by your arguments entirely meaningless?

it's a diary/notebook

the OP



I have a couple of threads like this - where I drop off things I'm interested in. If other people want to comment, fine, but if not .... that works too

I've no problem with this thread. It can be fun. I just don't understand why anyone would continue to participate in it once they declared it was pointless.