I'm starting another thread based on who is running. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican. As I find things about each candidate it will be posted here. In no particular order. With the exception of one person, Trump. Trump "doings" will stay in the "Trumpland" thread.

Beto O'Rourke unveils climate plan with Yosemite as the backdrop

"YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has announced his first major policy initiative, a $5 trillion plan to combat climate change that he says will keep the Earth from sliding past the point of no return in less than a generation".

https://www.apnews.com/a78d942b37584f518994d8a51a8a9fb1

The Media Can’t Figure Out How to Cover Elizabeth Warren

"Unlike every other candidate in the race—or in recent US history—Warren is providing a road map for where she wants to take the country".

"Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is running a presidential campaign unlike any we’ve seen before, and our media have no idea how to handle it. It’s a campaign not merely of ideas but of detailed policy proposals dealing with a host of ills that other politicians have ignored or tried to wish away".

http://www.thenation.com/article/eric-alterman-elizabeth-warren-media-failure/

Elizabeth Warren bets that slew of policy ideas will win over Trump-weary voters

"The government would pay to build more than 3 million homes and apartments, nearly eliminating a housing shortage for the poor. Uncle Sam would manufacture insulin if critical medicine’s price spikes. The federal government would foot the bill for childcare for many. And big companies, from technology to agriculture, would be broken up".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-bets-that-slew-of-policy-ideas-will-win-over-trump-weary-voters/2019/04/07/24a78926-4509-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?utm_term=.99c543ae2315


Elizabeth Warren, Trumpian of the Left


"For decades, the left sought to dethrone the idea of truth. The truth was not absolute. It was a matter of power. Of perspective. Of narrative. “Truth is a thing of this world,” wrote Michel Foucault. “Each society has its regime of truth, its ‘general politics’ of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true".

http://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/opinion/elizabeth-warren-trump.html

Beto O’Rourke proposes $5-trillion climate plan for net-zero emissions by 2050


"Beto O’Rourke, who has described climate change as the top issue of his presidential campaign, released a proposal Monday that would spend trillions of dollars to wean the country off fossil fuels with a goal to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050"?

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-climate-change-plan-20190429-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fsports%2Fhockey%2Fnhl%2Fkings+%28L.A.+Times+-+Kings%29&utm_content=Yahoo+Search+Results


Beto O’Rourke’s ‘Reality Check’

"A widely-shared Facebook meme offered allegations about a rising Democratic politician in Texas".

http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/beto-orourke-reality-check/

Beto O’Rourke switches his style and tone as the spotlight dims

"As Beto O’Rourke prepared last month to tell the world that he would run for president, Vanity Fair unveiled its April cover featuring the Democrat from El Paso on a dusty road with his pickup truck, his dog and these words: “Man, I’m just born to be in it".



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/beto-orourke-switches-his-style-and-tone-as-the-spotlight-dims/2019/04/27/5c8ef1e0-65e7-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html?utm_term=.fe3c1f25b9ca

'My top 3 changes every day': San Francisco voters turn out to hear Beto O'Rourke's 2020 pitch

"SAN FRANCISCO – Though the line of people snaking outside the Irish Cultural Center late Sunday morning kept growing, few “Beto 2020’’ shirts could be spotted in the crowd.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was making his first appearance in famously liberal San Francisco since launching his campaign last month, but the folks coming out to hear him speak were not yet ready for a lovefest".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/28/beto-orourke-anti-donald-trump-san-francisco-voters/3612733002/

Joe Biden opens 2020 campaign on home turf: A Pennsylvania union hall

"Former Vice President Joe Biden, jumping into the 2020 presidential race as the apparent front-runner, flashed his political calling card Monday with a kickoff rally at a Pennsylvania union hall that underscored his claim to be the candidate best equipped to win over blue-collar workers in crucial states that gave Donald Trump his victory in 2016".

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-joe-biden-kickoff-rally-union-pennsylvania-20190429-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fsports%2Fmotorracing+%28L.A.+Times+-+Auto+Racing%29&utm_content=Yahoo+Search+Results

Joe Biden Touts Middle Class, Unions in First Campaign Rally

"FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden, who's considered a 2020 front-runner, touted restoring America's middle class and strengthening unions Monday in his first campaign rally as a Democratic presidential candidate.

Speaking at a Pittsburgh union hall, Biden focused his 25-minute speech on a pro-worker platform, arguing that the middle class has been stifled by the current administration's prioritization of wealthy individuals and corporations".


http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-04-29/former-vice-president-joe-biden-touts-middle-class-unions-in-first-2020-campaign-rally

Meet the Republicans Likely to Challenge Trump in the 2020 Primary

"The Democratic 2020 primary is a crowded field, but regardless of who takes the nomination, President Donald Trump will face a battle before election day. Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld announced his candidacy for the Republican primary last week, and both Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and former Ohio Governor John Kasich are mulling runs as well".

htt://fortune.com/2019/04/22/republican-presidential-candidates-2020/

Bernie Sanders Has a Message for Trump on Trade

As workers’ rights have become a focus for the 2020 presidential campaigns, Senator Bernie Sanders has called on President Donald Trump to protect those rights in the deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but whether that can happen and if it will be a boon for agricultural and auto workers in the U.S. remains to be seen.

http://fortune.com/2019/04/29/nafta-bernie-sanders-trump/

"Can Democrats' Calls for Bipartisan Unity Be Authentic in the Trump Era? "

"Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar started her presidential campaign amid February snow showers a mile up the Mississippi River from a rebuilt bridge. The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed in 2007 and reopened a year later after federal politicians reached across the aisle to hasten construction".

http://fortune.com/2019/04/29/bipartisan-unity-democrats-2020/


I just don't see this candidate getting very far.

Potential Democratic presidential candidates

"Stacey Abrams, former member and minority leader, Georgia House of Representatives
Michael Bennet, U.S. senator from Colorado
Jerry Brown, former governor of California
Steve Bullock, governor of Montana
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of and U.S. senator from Rhode Island
Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, New York
Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator from Alaska
Luis Gutierrez, former U.S. representative from Illinois
Maggie Hassan, U.S. senator from New Hampshire
Tim Kaine, U.S. senator from Virginia and 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee
Jason Kander, former secretary of state of Missouri
John Kerry, former secretary of state of the United States and U.S. senator from Massachusetts
Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
Gina Raimondo, governor of Rhode Island
Brian Schatz, U.S. senator from Hawaii
Sally Yates, former acting attorney general"

Potential Republican presidential candidates

"Mo Brooks, U.S. representative from Alabama
Bob Corker, former U.S. senator from Tennessee
Tom Cotton, U.S. senator from Arkansas
Ted Cruz, U.S. senator from Texas
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina
Larry Hogan, governor of Maryland
John Kasich, former governor of Ohio
Susana Martinez, former governor of New Mexico
Mike Pence, vice president of the United States
Ben Sasse, U.S. senator from Nebraska
Scott Walker, former governor of Wisconsin

Business executives and public figures.

Mark Cuban, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard

http://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020

As Biden lead widens, firefighters union will do 'everything it takes' to help him win

"PITTSBURGH — You didn’t need to look hard to find the union label on the first event of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. The rally took place in a Teamsters Temple in this industrial town on Monday and the small hall was packed with representatives from a slew of labor groups. But one union stood out behind Biden, with dozens of their members surrounding the former vice president in their trademark black-and-gold shirts".

http://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-firefighters-union-133003623.html

Bernie Sanders won't back down on prisoner voting, despite political risks

"Bernie Sanders isn’t backing away from his controversial proposal to allow all incarcerated felons to vote in U.S. elections.

One week after Sanders made headlines after a CNN town hall by declaring his support for allowing prisoners to vote regardless of the crimes they had committed, the Vermont senator fleshed out his views with a USA Today op-ed and a thread posted to Twitter on Tuesday".

http://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-doubles-down-on-prisoner-voting-despite-political-risks-180327559.html

How 'Medicare for all' might harm seniors


"During the next 18 months, voters are going to hear a lot about “Medicare for all”—the Bernie Sanders plan to bring all Americans into a government-run health care system resembling Medicare".

http://news.yahoo.com/how-medicare-for-all-might-harm-seniors-151815494.html

Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg see both good and bad news in latest Quinnipiac Poll

"WASHINGTON – A new presidential poll has both good and bad news for Democratic hopefuls Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg.

A majority of Democratic voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University days after Biden launched his campaign last week said the former vice president has the best chance of beating President Donald Trump. But while Biden has homed in on Trump in his nascent campaign, 70% of Democrats said they want a candidate who focuses on other issues.

For Buttigieg, the good news in the survey released Tuesday is that 70% of all voters – including 46% of Republicans – said they are open to electing a president who is a gay man".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-pete-buttigieg-see-200954127.html

Biden's surge and Warren's resilience are bad news for Sanders


"Joe Biden’s entry into the presidential race and Elizabeth Warren’s impressive performance on the campaign trail are bad news for Bernie Sanders".

http://news.yahoo.com/bidens-surge-and-warrens-resilience-are-bad-news-for-sanders-182841838.html

Bernie Sanders blasts Joe Biden over Iraq War vote: ‘The worst foreign policy disaster in modern history’

"Bernie Sanders has attacked Joe Biden for his vote to approve the Iraq War, taking his 2020 challenger to task for his part in the “worst foreign policy disaster in the modern history of America".


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-iraq-war-vote-foreign-policy-disaster-a8895721.html

Biden is right about Trump. Democrats should listen.

"Presidential campaign announcements are generally vapid affairs, full of marshmallowy rhetoric about coming together and securing America’s future and other things that won’t offend anyone.

So it was notable when Joe Biden’s announcement video, released just after I posted this column about him last week, touched off a raw argument among a certain segment of Democrats. Here’s the one line from Biden’s spiel, in particular, that infuriated some progressives:

“I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time".

http://news.yahoo.com/biden-is-right-about-trump-democrats-should-listen-090000371.html

WRONG!! Trump is doing his best to take this country in a positive direction where all are treated equally and have an equal chance at success. Where no one is given special treatment or status in life. A place where everyone world wide gets the same chance to make something of themselves and success is rewarded while failure is punished. A place where the cost of regulation carries a significant part of the regulation basis.

whats to be furious about really?

aberrant: departing from an accepted standard


and isnt that one of the reasons so many claim to have voted for him, because he was NOT like the accepted standard? The standard of diplomacy, that was rebranded as weakness, the standard of manners that was rebranded as PC, the standard of educated speech, which was just discarded as not significant after all?

Id think true supporters would be applauding this observation. Maybe the history books can even record this period as the Aberrant Age?

Klobuchar releases $100B substance abuse, mental health plan


"CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has released a plan to spend $100 billion over a decade to improve mental health care and fight substance abuse, an issue the Minnesota senator has faced firsthand as the daughter of an alcoholic who struggled with addiction for years before getting sober".

http://www.apnews.com/d8de98f7d44e47f88e0716404649250b

http://news.yahoo.com/klobuchar-releases-100b-substance-abuse-mental-health-plan-090927398--politics.html

Sanders pushes back against Biden's claim he's the 'most progressive' candidate in the Democratic field

"Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed back against former Vice President Joe Biden's claim that he has "the most progressive record" of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field, citing Biden's votes as a member of the U.S. Senate as evidence that his views were not always in line with the nation's liberals".

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-question-progressive/story?id=62831335

If Mark Cuban runs, I promise to campaign for the other side


That puckin douche