Current Affairs 2020 Democratic Primary

[BirkenheadBlue]

Oh and for the record, most of Warren’s policy proposals are supported by > 50% of Republicans, when they’re put to them in the abstract.

 

[St. Domingo]

What ones are they? The wall? Dismantling ACA? Lol, real follow-through there

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/

Some of the important ones include withdrawing from TTP - a crap trade deal even Clinton said she would've looked at

He's got NATO members to pay more for their protection - why should America pay 4% GDP when Germany pays 2%? No president had the balls to say that, let alone make it a campaign promise

He's never taken a salary ($400,000 a year), gives it to charity. This has been conformed in lots of places. No other president did this

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/

Some of the important ones include withdrawing from TTP - a crap trade deal even Clinton said she would've looked at

He's got NATO members to pay more for their protection - why should America pay 4% GDP when Germany pays 2%? No president had the balls to say that, let alone make it a campaign promise

He's never taken a salary ($400,000 a year), gives it to charity. This has been conformed in lots of places. No other president did this

Very generous of him. Of course no other President was a billionaire or got $400m from his daddy.

Or had the Saudis renting out entire floors of his hotel for months on end to curry favour and make sure they looked the other way while they murdered WaPo journalists.

 

[St. Domingo]

Some truth bombs from Rubio, a 2nd generation Cuban American actually from Miami. He's not some phony Irish bloke pretending to be Hispanic or fake native American. He actually grew up with nothing unlike most of these Democrat candidates

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Wait, so you’re saying a 90 second spot in a debate ISN’T the best time to lay out the entirety of complex immigration reform plans?

Well I mean that is just astonishing.

To be fair to Rubio, he’s a unifying figure - seems that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the slightest interest in him

 

[BlueTX]

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/
He's never taken a salary ($400,000 a year), gives it to charity. This has been conformed in lots of places. No other president did this

He does not donate his salary to charity. He makes a show of giving it to departments of government for a specific purpose but that is not allowed unless there is specific Congressional approval. Whatever money he donates to DHS or VA or other departments of government goes into the department's general fund.

 

[DanEFC92]

Wait, so you’re saying a 90 second spot in a debate ISN’T the best time to lay out the entirety of complex immigration reform plans?

Well I mean that is just astonishing.

To be fair to Rubio, he’s a unifying figure - seems that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the slightest interest in him

It's galling that a Trump supporter is annoyed at a candidate for not laying out policy specifics.

"We're going to have a plan. It'll be great. Some say best ever." *crowd erupts

 

[BlueTX]

 

[Connor]

- they're all absolute phoneys bar perhaps the couple who've been in the army, and Tim Ryan.

LOL.

 

[Prevenger17]

Some of the important ones include withdrawing from TTP - a crap trade deal even Clinton said she would've looked at

He's got NATO members to pay more for their protection - why should America pay 4% GDP when Germany pays 2%? No president had the balls to say that, let alone make it a campaign promise

Woah, big wins there. That was the stuff that really revved electoral engines

 

[Ruairi77]

Bernie or Biden can do it imo.

I dunno man, like I've said before, the love for Bernie is gone (except for his base who'll just further alienate themselves when he inevitably goes after Warren).
I can't see undecided voters going for his 'grumpy old man' shtick.
Biden is Clinton 2.0 or 3.0 or whatever. He won't turn out the numbers. He'll prob take Pennsylvania if nominated but christ, it'll be tight nationwide.

I'll be very surprised if Buttigeig (sp?) and Harris don't wipe the floor with the two septuagenarian white dudes between them tonight.

If you're just looking for someone who'd beat Trump but you aren't bothered about their politics, that's Klobuchar for me. She'll take the rust belt, independent, and women's vote.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

The same voters that voted for him are a minority of the country, and he won by <80,000 votes split across three states while losing the popular vote by ~3m. Trump is a historically unpopular 1st term President.

There’s never a leader for any party at this stage in the process*

War with Iran is exceptionally unpopular.

* any party that isn’t an incumbent

Lets hope i'm wrong then.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Lets hope i'm wrong then.

I’m not saying Trump will lose necessarily, but it’s miles from as clear cut as you’re making out.

 

[verreauxi]

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/

Some of the important ones include withdrawing from TTP - a crap trade deal even Clinton said she would've looked at

He's got NATO members to pay more for their protection - why should America pay 4% GDP when Germany pays 2%? No president had the balls to say that, let alone make it a campaign promise

He's never taken a salary ($400,000 a year), gives it to charity. This has been conformed in lots of places. No other president did this

Running on "won't say Happy Holidays" LOL... Was this the issue that turned-the-corner for you in throwing your support behind Trump? I'm glad they included this important issue in the list of his 17 kept promises. This list is actually pretty damn weak, and also the type of thing I expect a Trump supporter to post. "Suspend immigration from terror-prone countries" (but not the Saudis, of course...despite that 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi). And the Carrier plant bribe: we'll give you 7 million dollars if you only send 2/3rds of your employees jobs to Mexico. Yeah, brilliant business by Trump.

 

[sdk]

Warren, who pretended to be native American for decades to get teaching jobs

Wrongo: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/na...complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html

The rest of your post was a Greatest Hits of Counterfactual Republican Talking Points, which, like most GOP albums, is unfortunately warped.