2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress

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What does that chart mean?
The numbers don't add up. It should add up to 0, right?
 
prateik said:
What does that chart mean?
The numbers don't add up. It should add up to 0, right?
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Its measuring the difference between how much TV coverage a candidate is getting and how much they are average polling.

So if Biden is polling at 22% in California but he is getting 37% of the TV coverage he is +15. Its quantifying how much the media is pushing Biden. An interesting comparison would be May2015 with Trump media compared to polling
 
Who’s leading the Wall Street primary? Looks like Biden, Harris and Buttigieg

Having
already determined that two of the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination — Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — are unacceptable and must be stopped at all costs, Wall Street financiers have reportedly begun to narrow down their list of 2020 favorites as candidates’ fundraising efforts reach a “fevered peak” ahead of the June filing deadline.

As the New York Times reported on Sunday, “three candidates are generating most of the buzz” among powerful Wall Street donors: South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.

“[W]hile many are still hedging their bets, those who care most about picking a winner are gravitating toward Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris, while donors are swooning over Mr. Buttigieg enough to open their wallets and bundling networks for him,” according to the Times, which interviewed two dozen top fundraisers and political advisers.

“This should tell you everything you need to know,” environmentalist and documentary filmmaker Josh Fox tweeted in response to the Times report. Fox has been an outspoken backer of Sanders and done work for his 2020 campaign.

According to the Times, Wall Street donors opening their wallets for the 2020 race are attracted to Biden’s “ideological moderation,” Buttigieg’s “charisma and intellect,” and Harris’ “potential as a possible primary victor even as she now trails in the polls.”

“Those are the three,” said Julianna Smoot, who served as national finance director for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, which raked in an unprecedented sum of Wall Street cash. “If you could roll all three of them into a single candidate, you’d have the perfect candidate.”

In a frenzied rush to raise as much money as possible ahead of the June 30 financial filing deadline, “no less than nine Democrats are holding New York fundraisers in a span of nine days,” the Times reported.

The Times provided a glimpse of some of the big-money events taking place over the next several days:

Hamilton E. James, the executive vice chairman of Blackstone and a top fundraiser, hosted Mr. Buttigieg at his home on Thursday. The short-selling hedge fund manager James Chanos will hold an event for Mr. Biden on Monday. And on Tuesday, Marc Lasry, the hedge fund manager and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, is gathering checks for Ms. Harris. Co-hosts of that event include Blair W. Effron, an investment bank co-founder and an influential Democratic financier, and Ray McGuire, vice chairman of Citigroup.

Among those spreading the money around is Brad Karp, the chairman of the Paul, Weiss law firm and a top attorney for Wall Street institutions. He is hosting Mr. Biden for a reception at 9 am on Tuesday; he is a co-host for a “lawyer’s lunch” for Ms. Harris that same day.


Not all 2020 presidential candidates are taking the same approach to funding their campaign operations.

As Biden, Buttigieg, Harris and other 2020 contenders race from one big money event to the next, Warren and Sanders — both critics of Wall Street’s political influence — are rejecting lavish fundraisers hosted by corporate executives and instead relying on small-dollar donations and “grassroots” events.

“Two candidates in the top tier of polls, Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have railed against the financial industry,” the Times reported, “and opted against the kind of fancy fundraisers with catering and $2,800 admission prices that lubricate the donor industry.”

As Common Dreams reported in January, Wall Street bankers made clear how they felt about the possibility of a Warren or Sanders nomination before they even launched their 2020 campaigns.

“It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders,” the CEO of a big bank anonymously told Politico.

While Biden, Buttigieg, and Harris have emerged as early Wall Street favorites, they’re not the only candidates who have sparked interest.

David Adelman, an attorney who represents the financial industry, told the Times that he feels a “generational pull” toward Beto O’Rourke.

“It’s important to rotate the crops,” said Adelman.

Wall Street bankers have also donated to Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., according to the Times.

In response to the new reporting on 2020 Democrats’ aggressive Wall Street fundraising push, Astead Wesley — national political reporter with the Times — tweeted a question at the candidates:
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Message to voters should be ,look who Wall St are desperate for and vote against.
 
oneniltothearsenal said:
Its measuring the difference between how much TV coverage a candidate is getting and how much they are average polling.

So if Biden is polling at 22% in California but he is getting 37% of the TV coverage he is +15. Its quantifying how much the media is pushing Biden. An interesting comparison would be May2015 with Trump media compared to polling
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Comcast/MSNBC

err Biden will still fall flat on his face.
 
Joe Biden heads straight to Wall Street fundraiser after leaving Poor People’s forum

Just hours after appearing at Monday’s Poor People’s Campaign event in Washington, D.C. and promising to work for the less fortunate, 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden went straight to a Wall Street fundraiser in New York City where he solicited donations from, among others, a pro-Trump billionaire.

The fundraiser was held at the Manhattan penthouse apartment of investor Jim Chanos. According to CNBC reporting, Biden told wealthy attendees “you guys are great” and “you guys are incredibly important” before singing the praises of working class Americans.

Biden also “suggested” to the crowd that he had raised nearly $20 million already for his campaign, citing 360,000 donors that have contributed an average of $55, approximately $19.2 million.

At one point during the evening, CNBC reported, the former vice president asked supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis for help, but the plea didn’t result in any benefit for the Democratic frontrunner. Catsimatidis told Biden he was set on Trump and, on Tuesday, tweeted that he and his family—major figures in New York Republican circles—were all in for the president.

Biden’s appearance at Chanos’s apartment came on the same day the former vice president took the stage in Washington to wax on his strategies to end poverty. But the former vice president’s remarks concentrated mainly on his relationship with former president Barack Obama,
The Washington Post
reported, and his desire to work with the GOP—at one point leaning over moderator Joy Ann Reid to tell her that it was possible to “shame” Republicans into working with Democrats.


“Joy Ann, I know you’re one of the ones who thinks it’s naive to think we have to work together,” said Biden. “The fact of the matter is, if we can’t get a consensus, nothing happens except the abuse of power by the executive branch. Zero.”


Biden also used his time onstage to take issue with those calling for real change rather than incrementalism.

“Folks, look, if you start off with the notion there’s nothing you can do, well, might you all go home then, man?” Biden said. “Or let’s start a real, physical revolution if you’re talking about it.”

Biden continued to attend fundraisers in New York on Tuesday, according to Newsday‘s Emily Ngo, though it was unclear if he courted any additional deep-pocketed Trump backers.
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Of course he did.
 
I get the dislike for Biden - I truly do - but I worry that if the Dems are yet again going to have a large contingent vote for Bernie just because it is the ethical or moral thing to do, that Trump will be have a good path to victory yet again.

The election of Trump made it perfectly clear that for the Rs this is a us vs the Dems thing - it's as simple as that to most of em. I certainly hope the candidates and the DNC have learned they cannot risk another fragmented showing. So yes - consider me a sucker and a poor Dem, etc etc but as far as I'm concerned I'm at the point where I just want Trump to go - even if that means supporting Biden in some capacity. I guess I almost don't care who the Dem nominee is. Just narrow the field quickly and fkin unite.

Donnie Jr. comment re cancer research and Biden last night was a low point I never thought we d reach. Even after everything that already happened.
 
Redplane said:
The election of Trump made it perfectly clear that for the Rs this is a us vs the Dems thing - it's as simple as that to most of em.
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Someone should tell Biden this.

Redplane said:
I certainly hope the candidates and the DNC have learned they cannot risk another fragmented showing. So yes - consider me a sucker and a poor Dem, etc etc but as far as I'm concerned I'm at the point where I just want Trump to go - even if that means supporting Biden in some capacity. I guess I almost don't care who the Dem nominee is. Just narrow the field quickly and fkin unite.
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Not to get too personal but are you well off ? Decent stable income ?

I only ask this as it always amazes me that a country with has no universal healthcare, one of the dangerous police forces in the western world and cities without clear drinking water is so content with the current existing state of affairs. Looking at American as a outsider, Trump is far down the list of problems you lot need to address.
 
Sweet Square said:
Someone should tell Biden this.


Not to get too personal but are you well off ? Decent stable income ?

I only ask this as it always amazes me that a country with has no universal healthcare, one of the dangerous police forces in the western world and cities without clear drinking water is so content with the current existing state of affairs. Looking at American as a outsider, Trump is far down the list of problems you lot need to address.
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I guess you could say I cant complain financially but that doesn't mean I am blind to the vast array of issues we have to address in this country. One thing though that it seems people from outside this county don't seem to grasp is how different experiences in different parts of the country are.. . Hell, between two towns next to each other can be. I am fairly content with my local government, even state government to some degree, but am embarrassed by our federal government.. Or rather this administration for enabling the wrong things on the levels further down below, whether it is mere public discourse getting more toxic, or giving those lower levels of government the federal protections they need to feck shit up.
 
Redplane said:
I guess you could say I cant complain financially but that doesn't mean I am blind to the vast array of issues we have to address in this country.
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Cheers.

Redplane said:
I guess you could say I cant complain financially but that doesn't mean I am blind to the vast array of issues we have to address in this country. One thing though that it seems people from outside this county don't seem to grasp is how different experiences in different parts of the country are.. . Hell, between two towns next to each other can be. I am fairly content with my local government, even state government to some degree,
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Yeah I image this is very true. Although it's stuff like universal healthcare that I struggle with. No matter what state your in or what political party is running it, there isn't a basic level of healthcare for all. Are Americans ever going to get healthcare or healthcare system that isn't based off people wealth ?

And the fact there is just one candidate offering this and yet the guy at top(Biden)is offering literally nothing other than oddly enough empty morals, seems well ridiculous.
 
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