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Amigo, there has to be a transition that isn’t strictly Medicare for All, regardless of how the bill is written. I’ve supported Medicare for All for a long time now. I still support it. When speaking

I know some people don't want to hear it, but it's going to be Bernie and if it is, he's gonna win. 

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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/17/sanders-warren-vice-president-treasury-secretary/
 

NOT LONG AFTER meeting with Sanders at the end of 2018 to discuss her impending presidential run, Warren hosted an off-the-record dinner with a number of journalists, according to sources with knowledge of it. At the dinner, Warren was asked about her meeting with Sanders, and in the course of the discussion, she relayed that Sanders had warned that he didn’t believe a woman could beat Trump in 2020. Different reporters recalled the comments differently, a mirror image of the dispute between Warren and Sanders over exactly what Sanders said — with Warren saying that Sanders argued a woman couldn’t beat Trump, while Sanders said that he only said Trump would weaponize misogyny against a woman, not that it would work. (The Intercept was not at the dinner. Most politicians hold informal, off-record dinners or meetings with journalists, though it’s not something Sanders is known to do. Occasionally details from those meetings leak, but it’s rare.)

 

From there, the piece of news entered the journalistic bloodstream, circulating among reporters as gossip but not finding its way into print. On Monday, it finally did, with CNN’s M.J. Lee reporting that according to four sources — described as “two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting” — Sanders had told Warren, according to CNN’s paraphrasing, that “he did not believe a woman could win.”


It was widely assumed in the immediate aftermath of the story that Warren’s campaign had planted the story. Indeed, CNN anchor Erin Burnett said as much on air. But Burnett was merely making an assumption, and had no inside knowledge of the sources, two CNN sources told The Intercept.

 

Since Warren told the story more broadly to a group of journalists, CNN’s sources could have come from outside the campaign.

On Monday, Warren told The Intercept that her campaign did not intentionally plant the CNN story. That Warren told a number of journalists about the meeting a year ago adds context to that statement. If Warren had only told her closest advisers about the meeting, then it would be logical to assume that her campaign dictated the timing of the story, dropping it just ahead of a debate, and just weeks before the primary, to undercut Sanders. But since Warren told the story more broadly to a group of journalists, CNN’s sources could have come from outside the campaign. The revelation does not rule out the possibility that someone in her campaign was a source, but it opens up other possibilities, as well.

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What an arrogant thing to say. 

 

Joe Biden has done 10x more for Americans than Bernie has, both legislatively and leading major administrative projects as VP including the Recovery Act, finagling the votes to pass Obamacare, the Paris Climate Accord, and the Iran Nuclear Agreement., etc etc etc. 

 

And he wants middle class people to be able to keep their private insurance if they choose of course. Maybe those are some other, you know, minor reasons why people like him.

 

Lol Jesus. 

 

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/bloomberg-ad-campaign-hikes-tv-prices-100572
 

Michael Bloomberg’s big-spending, shock-and-awe TV ad campaign has made politicking more expensive for everyone from his 2020 rivals to Senate, House and state legislative candidates around the country.
 

Eight weeks into his presidential campaign, Bloomberg has already spent more money on advertising — $248 million — than most candidates could spend in years. That amount has squeezed TV ad inventory in nearly every state, lowering supply and causing stations to raise ad prices at a time of high demand, as candidates around the country gear up for their primaries.

 

On average in markets around the country, prices for political TV ads have risen by 20 percent since Bloomberg began his campaign. Meanwhile, some local politicians have already found difficulty trying to reach their own constituencies.

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I think it's funny how out of touch the media is and how it creates and then starts to believe it's own narratives.

 

What actually makes anyone think she is so electable? The media gets electability wrong all the time. Remember, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Kamala Harris? These were all people the media assumed had tons of it but had the fatal flaw that people didn't actually want to vote for them.

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1 hour ago, Titans279 said:

I think it's funny how out of touch the media is and how it creates and then starts to believe it's own narratives.

 

What actually makes anyone think she is so electable? The media gets electability wrong all the time. Remember, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Kamala Harris? These were all people the media assumed had tons of it but had the fatal flaw that people didn't actually want to vote for them.

 

Klobuchar? 

 

She sucks and can’t win. 

 

I’d vote for Warren over her all day. 

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