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« Reply #525 on: December 13, 2016, 03:42:25 PM »

Kanye's latest tweets now imply that he will run in 2024, not 2020.
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« Reply #526 on: December 13, 2016, 03:45:58 PM »

Kanye's latest tweets now imply that he will run in 2024, not 2020.

Trump successfully removes his greatest threat to reelection.
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« Reply #527 on: December 13, 2016, 04:16:31 PM »

Kanye's latest tweets now imply that he will run in 2024, not 2020.

Oh God, he'll do this every cycle won't he?
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« Reply #528 on: December 13, 2016, 06:05:02 PM »

Though Franken says he won't run, he has a book coming out on May 30:



http://www.startribune.com/sen-al-franken-s-giant-of-the-u-s-senate-book-hits-stands-may-30/406308006/


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« Reply #529 on: December 13, 2016, 06:22:54 PM »

Back in 2012, Tom Vilsack floated the idea of running for president in 2016:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=164982.msg3536958#msg3536958

but then promptly dropped the matter, before making a 2016 cameo appearance as a Clinton VP short lister.

So it's with a heavy heart that I report that Vilsack isn't talking about the presidency anymore these days:

http://farmfutures.com/story-secretary-vilsack-taking-final-lap-0-150533

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Not Shermanesque though.  Tongue
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« Reply #530 on: December 14, 2016, 05:55:37 PM »

Elizabeth Warren gets spot on Armed Services Committee
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« Reply #531 on: December 14, 2016, 06:22:18 PM »


I was just about to post this. This is good news.
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« Reply #532 on: December 15, 2016, 12:30:02 AM »


She's sometimes seen as inexperienced on foreign policy matters (in my view rightly so), and this would give here some good credentials on that front.
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« Reply #533 on: December 15, 2016, 01:07:34 AM »


US Senators who run for president almost always try to get on either the Foreign Relations Committee or the Armed Services Committee before they run for prez.  It gives them a chance to delve into foreign policy while still in the Senate.

E.g., of the four sitting Republican Senators who ran for prez this year, all of them were on one of those two committees…

Armed Services: Cruz, Graham
Foreign Relations: Paul, Rubio

Though it's certainly not a hard and fast rule.  On the Democratic side, Sanders also ran for prez this year, and he isn't on either of those committees.
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« Reply #534 on: December 15, 2016, 01:49:42 PM »

And now Booker is joining the Foreign Relations Committee:

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/310586-booker-to-join-foreign-relations-committee
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« Reply #535 on: December 15, 2016, 04:06:55 PM »

Sanders had skin cancer removed from cheek
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« Reply #536 on: December 16, 2016, 09:08:27 AM »

More analysis of the new Booker and Warren committee assignments:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/16/daily-202-democrats-with-2020-ambitions-finagle-the-committee-assignments-that-boosted-clinton-and-kaine/585349cae9b69b36fcfeaf44/?utm_term=.0d85eddda5ab
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« Reply #537 on: December 16, 2016, 09:41:00 AM »


Oh lord, hope Bernie is ok.
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« Reply #538 on: December 16, 2016, 10:26:59 AM »


Indeed. I hope it doesn't get any worse than this.
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« Reply #539 on: December 16, 2016, 01:41:41 PM »

I already posted a thread about O’Malley’s interview with Alan Colmes, but should also mention the part that’s relevant for the big “Will O’Malley run again in 2020?” question.  Colmes asked O’Malley what he intends to do with his life next, and here’s the answer (this starts towards the end, from around the 11:25 mark):

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5250156109001/?#sp=show-clips

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« Reply #540 on: December 18, 2016, 08:10:00 PM »

I already posted a thread about O’Malley’s interview with Alan Colmes, but should also mention the part that’s relevant for the big “Will O’Malley run again in 2020?” question.  Colmes asked O’Malley what he intends to do with his life next, and here’s the answer (this starts towards the end, from around the 11:25 mark):

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5250156109001/?#sp=show-clips

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That sounds like a yes to me.
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« Reply #541 on: December 19, 2016, 02:59:34 AM »

Reid Epstein of the WSJ says few politicos actually believe Biden is going to run in 2020, and speculates that he’s mainly trying to remain “relevant”:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/12/12/why-joe-biden-keeps-mentioning-a-2020-run/

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Biden hinted towards this explanation in his interview with Tapper:

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The post linked above also mentions’ some O’Malley news (re: his aborted DNC chair bid) that I hadn't heard before:

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Well, Biden does have a history of taking a while to announce he isn't running. Not just 2016, he really was bidin' his time in 2004, too.
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« Reply #542 on: December 19, 2016, 10:11:26 AM »

New interview with Warren here:

http://www.wcvb.com/article/on-the-record-will-elizabeth-warren-run-for-re-election/8512260

Skip to about the 3:40 mark.  Warren is asked whether she’s going to run for reelection in 2018, and she declines to answer, saying “Today’s not the day to make an announcement”, but also “I love my job.”

Then she’s asked about running for president in 2020, and she says it’s “not on her radar screen”, which again, is not really a Shermanesque denial.

EDIT: Also, I hadn't really noticed it before, but Warren's voice is vaguely similar to that of Peggy Noonan.
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« Reply #543 on: December 19, 2016, 10:13:05 AM »

Here’s a dispatch from O’Malley’s trip to Iowa this weekend:

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/politics/martin-omalley-campaigns-for-jim-lykam-in-davenport-20161218

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« Reply #544 on: December 19, 2016, 10:30:53 AM »

Clinton and Kaine are holding a party to thank their big $ donors....which may or may not be related to one or both of them thinking about 2020:

http://pagesix.com/2016/12/05/hillary-clinton-throwing-party-to-thank-millionaire-donors/

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Here's a dispatch from that event:

http://pagesix.com/2016/12/16/hillary-clintons-holiday-party-like-a-wake/

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« Reply #545 on: December 19, 2016, 02:00:55 PM »

Clinton and Kaine are holding a party to thank their big $ donors....which may or may not be related to one or both of them thinking about 2020:

http://pagesix.com/2016/12/05/hillary-clinton-throwing-party-to-thank-millionaire-donors/

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Here's a dispatch from that event:

http://pagesix.com/2016/12/16/hillary-clintons-holiday-party-like-a-wake/

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Good. Now we just need to make sure that Sanders and Biden don't run.
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« Reply #546 on: December 19, 2016, 09:07:37 PM »

Who I think might run:
Booker: Maybe
Gillibrand: Maybe
Warren: Maybe
Sanders: Maybe
Harris: Maybe
Gabbard: Maybe
Everyone else: Probably not
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« Reply #547 on: December 19, 2016, 10:12:28 PM »

Regarding the committee assignments...looks like Kamala Harris didn't get assigned to either Armed Services or Foreign Affairs, but she did make it onto the Select Committee on Intelligence, so I guess she can argue that that at least gives her some "national security" cred:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-kamala-harris-nabs-national-security-1482178585-htmlstory.html
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« Reply #548 on: December 20, 2016, 02:50:45 AM »

Regarding the committee assignments...looks like Kamala Harris didn't get assigned to either Armed Services or Foreign Affairs, but she did make it onto the Select Committee on Intelligence, so I guess she can argue that that at least gives her some "national security" cred:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-kamala-harris-nabs-national-security-1482178585-htmlstory.html


Michelle Bachmann was on that committee in the house when she ran for president. But she didn't get remotely close to the WH.........
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« Reply #549 on: December 20, 2016, 07:47:57 AM »

Regarding the committee assignments...looks like Kamala Harris didn't get assigned to either Armed Services or Foreign Affairs, but she did make it onto the Select Committee on Intelligence, so I guess she can argue that that at least gives her some "national security" cred:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-kamala-harris-nabs-national-security-1482178585-htmlstory.html


Michelle Bachmann was on that committee in the house when she ran for president. But she didn't get remotely close to the WH.........

As a member of the House though...I think that's a different type of profile than in the Senate
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