10 Dem Speeches of Various Potential Candidates... compare...

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I modified the thread to include Speeches of most potential 2020 Candidates... to Compare...

DNC speeches....or campaign speeches... from: Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Kamala Harris,  Sherrod Brown, Gavin Newsom, Kristen Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Roy Cooper & Steve Bullock.  (also included Joe Kennedy... as a potential post-2020 candidate).

Julian Castro (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSvEOEB7UW0&t=40s


Elizabeth Warren (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBtij5dR3dA


Martin Heinrich (2012 NM State Convention)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgEVyOaumPE


Cory Booker (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGUtSY3FqPo


Gavin Newsom (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbxDl4RyFs


Sherrod Brown (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhXtvpoBhI


Kamala Harris (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMiqlGX-6E


Steve Bullock (2013):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQmcd5in5M


Kristen Gillibrand (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99kr5ICctU&index=18&list=PLq2Lafqyg_mPh-W6ZMIRO21uNs-LZ4fBF


Amy Klobuchar (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep9WsigadFM&index=3&list=PLq2Lafqyg_mPh-W6ZMIRO21uNs-LZ4fBF


Roy Cooper (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGGtBaIPeTU


Joe Kennedy (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmRPRg8cEA

Joe Kennedy (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDFE8U-4vh8

[Phony Moderate]

Obama's is the only one that is known to the wider general public...

[houseonaboat]

Kinda surprised how... bad Warren's was. She needs a better speechwriter, for one thing, but her delivery isn't anything special either.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Booker's DNC speech was good.

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Kinda surprised how... bad Warren's was. She needs a better speechwriter, for one thing, but her delivery isn't anything special either.

I agree.. she doesn't have as much "natural" political talent as some ppl think.   Booker's was good- But I think sometimes he comes across as too energized.  To Me-- Castro's tone and message were the best (and closest to Obama's).

Also- I think Castro has the best or most compelling backstory, childhood, etc. (even more so than Obama... who really had a very comfortable & fairly normal childhood in Hawaii .. in many respects. Castro certainly has more of a working class childhood than Booker or Obama).  Also- Castro is better at coming across less partisan (in tone).. than Booker or Warren (prob b/c he comes from a Red- verging purple state... rather than deep Blue states like NJ & Mass).

[Hindsight was 2020]

Kinda surprised how... bad Warren's was. She needs a better speechwriter, for one thing, but her delivery isn't anything special either.

I agree.. she doesn't have as much "natural" political talent as some ppl think.   Booker's was good- But I think sometimes he comes across as too energized.  To Me-- Castro's tone and message were the best (and closest to Obama's).

Also- I think Castro has the best or most compelling backstory, childhood, etc. (even more so than Obama... who really had a very comfortable & fairly normal childhood in Hawaii .. in many respects. Castro certainly has more of a working class childhood than Booker or Obama).  Also- Castro is better at coming across less partisan (in tone).. than Booker or Warren (prob b/c he comes from a Red- verging purple state... rather than deep Blue states like NJ & Mass).

I told people Castro has a charisma that they are all sleeping on in 2020

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Kinda surprised how... bad Warren's was. She needs a better speechwriter, for one thing, but her delivery isn't anything special either.

I agree.. she doesn't have as much "natural" political talent as some ppl think.   Booker's was good- But I think sometimes he comes across as too energized.  To Me-- Castro's tone and message were the best (and closest to Obama's).

Also- I think Castro has the best or most compelling backstory, childhood, etc. (even more so than Obama... who really had a very comfortable & fairly normal childhood in Hawaii .. in many respects. Castro certainly has more of a working class childhood than Booker or Obama).  Also- Castro is better at coming across less partisan (in tone).. than Booker or Warren (prob b/c he comes from a Red- verging purple state... rather than deep Blue states like NJ & Mass).

-There is no such thing as too high-energy.

Castro simply does not have the experience to get nominated President.

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Kinda surprised how... bad Warren's was. She needs a better speechwriter, for one thing, but her delivery isn't anything special either.

I agree.. she doesn't have as much "natural" political talent as some ppl think.   Booker's was good- But I think sometimes he comes across as too energized.  To Me-- Castro's tone and message were the best (and closest to Obama's).

Also- I think Castro has the best or most compelling backstory, childhood, etc. (even more so than Obama... who really had a very comfortable & fairly normal childhood in Hawaii .. in many respects. Castro certainly has more of a working class childhood than Booker or Obama).  Also- Castro is better at coming across less partisan (in tone).. than Booker or Warren (prob b/c he comes from a Red- verging purple state... rather than deep Blue states like NJ & Mass).

-There is no such thing as too high-energy.

Castro simply does not have the experience to get nominated President.

I think Booker could be good also- only time will tell. 

But regarding Castro & Experience... I'm not saying he will be on the ticket in 2020- but its hard to argue he doesn't have the experience- given a current President Trump (who was a businessman... really in just one sector of the economy... real estate.)  Castro was Mayor of a City 2.5 times the size of Vermont.  And even if its said to have a weak mayor model- Castro took on a larger role as mayor & pushed initiatives like Universal Pre-K (so that would be equivalent to providing Universal Pre-K to any 10 of the States that have a smaller population than San Antonio).  Also- executive experience as HUD Secretary.. which provides him with knowledge and familiarity with the National Government. Not to mentioned an impressive educational background in Stanford Undergrad/ Harvard Law. 

And regarding Mayor of San Antonio.... Being the ceremonial leader of a city larger than 10 US States... is important in that part of being a good president, is being a good ceremonial leader that can motive ppl.

There also seems to be a model of less experience President/ more experienced VP that has become somewhat of the norm... Bush/Cheney  ...  Obama/ Biden ... Trump/Pence. 

(On a side note- I like the younger President/ Older VP model... because it often leads to the nomination being open after 8 year... rather than the VP being the  presumptive nominee.  This leaves the subsequent nomination open to talent that may have emerged during those 8 years).

[houseonaboat]

I've seen both Booker and Castro speak in person, really not even close as to who the better speaker is. Booker's arguably the best Democrat I've seen at connecting with a room since Obama. But he has other liabilities that (I think) will damn him in a Democratic primary.

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I've seen both Booker and Castro speak in person, really not even close as to who the better speaker is. Booker's arguably the best Democrat I've seen at connecting with a room since Obama. But he has other liabilities that (I think) will damn him in a Democratic primary.

Was Castro impressive in person as well? (Watching his DNC Speech certainly was IMO)

[Kingpoleon]

The greatest one I saw was Gavin Newsom's. It was the only speech I started watching that I never looked away from.

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The Martin Heinrich speech was the only one I could really find (that was convention/ campaign style speech) ... But he certainly had a bit more energy than his interviews I've seen...

Martin Heinrich (2012 NM State Convention):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgEVyOaumPE

[houseonaboat]

I've seen both Booker and Castro speak in person, really not even close as to who the better speaker is. Booker's arguably the best Democrat I've seen at connecting with a room since Obama. But he has other liabilities that (I think) will damn him in a Democratic primary.

Was Castro impressive in person as well? (Watching his DNC Speech certainly was IMO)

I saw him at a Hillary campaign event, which was admittedly not a venue that offered opportunity to , but he was certainly good. Dynamic and energetic, but also a little scripted and didn't really say anything that was profound or particularly offbeat from the Democratic party line (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Imo he just seems like a young, talented, good-looking public speaker who's caught a few lucky breaks in terms of getting noticed.