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There will be multiple results coming out of Iowa...
(Per Iowa Starting Line)
The Iowa Democratic Party will now report 3 different numbers:
The Statewide vote count and percent for all candidates after the first round (including those below the 15% viability threshold.
The Statewode vote count and percent for all viable candidates after the second round
The Statewide Delegate Equivalent count for all viable candidates after the second round
You could therefor have one candidate “win” based on Statewide voting and have another “win” based on Delegate counts.
Warren says she quit high-dollar fundraisers because she wanted to 'do better'
The Hill"I saw how this system works. And I decided when I got in the presidential race that I wanted to do better than that," she told reporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Saturday night, according to CNN.
"And that's why I just quit doing it. I don't sell access to my time. I don't call high-dollar fundraisers. I'm out there raising money grassroots all across this country, because I want to move this in the right direction, we can't be a country that just keeps getting worse and worse,” she said.
“I think what's important is what direction are we taking this in, you know," she added. "I don't think the American people are looking for purity. I think they're looking for someone who's trying, trying to make this system better and that's what I'm doing."
Post-hoc justification. Perhaps instead of moralizing until she got tripped up by her own past behavior, she should have STARTED with this public message and called on other candidates to do likewise.
Cory Booker would rather beat Trump at the polls
PoliticoDemocratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said Sunday that he’d rather see President Donald Trump defeated at the ballot box than removed from office.
“As a guy who is a big competitor, I want to beat Donald Trump mano a mano, I want to face him down on a debate floor. So this is not something that I want to do,” the New Jersey senator told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Regardless, Booker said he won’t flinch from doing his duty as a juror in Trump’s pending Senate impeachment trial.
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“Yeah, I’m going to evaluate the facts objectively and honor the oath that I swore even though I think Donald Trump has violated his oath of office,” Booker said.
Doug Jones says impeachment must be above electoral politics
Source: Politico
Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democratic lawmaker up for reelection in the Senate, on Sunday dismissed concerns that a vote to remove President Donald Trump from office would cost him his Senate seat.
“Everyone wants to talk about this in the political terms and the political consequences term. This is a much more serious matter than that,” the Alabama senator told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
“This has to do with the future of the presidency and how we want our presidents to conduct themselves. It has all to do with the future of the Senate and how the Senate should handle impeachment and articles of impeachment that come over. That’s how I’m looking at this,” he added. “If I did everything based on a pure political argument all you’d need is a computer to mash a button. That’s just not what this country is about. It’s not what the founders intended to do.”
Jones was asked if he might be one of the Democrats that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes will defect from the party in a vote to acquit the president. “I have no idea what Mitch McConnell’s talking about these days,” he said.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/22/doug-jones-impeachment-089307
Drink up!
https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1208450665116307456As Pete Buttigieg pointed out on Thursday, nobody questions Warren to remain untainted by exposure to big dollar donors, so it’s an issue when she implies that of others.
The problem with attending the Debates live is you never see the TV coverage...
https://www.facebook.com/chris.bastian.90BERN NOTICE: Bernie Takes On Joe's Billionaires
Corruption has now taken center stage in the Democratic primary campaign — which is a huge boost for Bernie, because he is the ONLY leading candidate who doesn’t take money from billionaires (note: look for Bernie to spotlight this at his big speeches with AOC in Los Angeles and Las Vegas today).
Bernie is now airing a television ad called “Billionaires” that contrasts his anti-corruption record with his opponents’ records. While Pete Buttigieg’s wine cave continues to be a powerful symbol of that corruption, it is worth remembering that epic moment at the Democratic debate — the one where Bernie reminded everyone that JOE BIDEN is the candidate who has the most billionaire donors.
Click here to read a recent Forbes review of Joe’s Billionaires. Then remember a few facts other facts about how loyally Biden’s campaign represents the billionaire class:
• BIDEN IS BANKROLLED BY A SUPER PAC LED BY A HEALTH CARE LOBBYIST: The American Prospect reports that Biden reversed his opposition to super PACs and now is being bankrolled by a super PAC — one led by the namesake of a “lobbying and PR firm that serves clients in industries including health insurance and fossil fuels.” The super PAC support comes as Biden has helped health insurance companies berate Bernie’s Medicare for All plan.
• BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN IS CHAIRED BY A CORPORATE LOBBYIST: Biden’s campaign chairman is a longtime corporate lobbyist Steve Ricchetti, “a lobbyist for a wide range of clients, including a variety of pharmaceutical titans,” according to CNBC.
• BIDEN IS HOLDING ELITE FUNDRAISERS IN JANUARY: “More than a dozen high-powered lawyers and executives, including the man who inspired Gordon Gekko, will help “Middle-Class Joe” raise campaign cash in early January,” according to Sludge, a non-profit investigative news outlet.
• BIDEN BROKE PLEDGE TO REJECT LOBBYIST MONEY: The Associated Press reports that Biden “entered the Democratic primary promising ‘from day one’ to reject campaign cash from lobbyists (and) yet hours after his April campaign kickoff, the former vice president went to a fundraiser at the home of a lobbying executive. And in the months since, he’s done it again and again.” CNBC recently reported that “a handful of lobbyists were invited” to a recent Biden fundraiser headlined by Ricchetti.
• BIDEN PROMISED TO REJECT FOSSIL FUEL CASH, THEN RAKED IT IN: Biden pledged to reject cash from fossil fuel industry donors — and then a day after a CNN climate town hall, he attended a fundraiser with the founder of a fossil fuel corporation. Biden has also raked in cash from donors at the law firm defending ExxonMobil in landmark climate litigation. At the same time, Biden has put forward a “middle ground” climate plan that environmental advocates have criticized as too weak.
• BIDEN PROMISED HIS BIG DONORS “NOTHING WOULD FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE”: At a high-dollar fundraiser, Biden explicitly promised his big donors that if he is elected, “nothing would fundamentally change” for them.
Bern after reading,
Sirota
https://bernie.substack.com/p/bern-notice-bernie-takes-on-joes
Michael Bloomberg doing the thing at Reading Terminal Market
https://twitter.com/tparti/status/1208393418700918784Trump administration demanded Democrats strip Ukraine aid language from spending package
Source: Washington Post
Senior Trump administration officials in recent days threatened a presidential veto that could have led to a government shutdown if House Democrats refused to drop language requiring prompt release of future military aid for Ukraine, according to five administration and congressional officials.
The language was ultimately left out of mammoth year-end spending legislation that passed the House and Senate this week ahead of a Saturday shutdown deadline. The White House said President Trump would sign the $1.4 trillion package before midnight.
The Ukraine provision was one of several items the White House drew a hard line on during negotiations to finalize the spending legislation, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the developments. It would have required the White House to swiftly release $250 million in defense money for Ukraine that was part of the spending package.
The White House this year refused to release congressionally appropriated defense aid to Kyiv during a period when President Trump had asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. Trump’s request of Zelensky as the White House delayed the aid was at the heart of House Democrats’ decision to impeach Trump this week on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/12/20/trump-administration-demanded-democrats-strip-ukraine-aid-language-spending-package/
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