The Democrats are bad at this
I know it's really early but I feel like Beto is done. His numbers are not looking great, he's not caught on with any particular constituency and he still appears to stand for nothing. He majorly miscalculated - should have stayed and run against Cornyn.
I know it's really early but I feel like Beto is done. His numbers are not looking great, he's not caught on with any particular constituency and he still appears to stand for nothing. He majorly miscalculated - should have stayed and run against Cornyn.
More than miscalculation I’m running for president I’d say his issue has been running an abysmal campaign
Has he been running one?
Seems the only people in this race are Biden, Bernie, Pete, and Harris.
Elizabeth Warren is running harder than any of them and with more concrete plans (it's just that all the intangibles are so unfortunate).
I'm less and less excited about Biden. I really wish he'd sit this one out.
“If there are people in the House or the Senate who want to say that’s what a president can do when the president is being investigated for his own wrongdoings or when a foreign government attacks our country, then they should have to take that vote and live with it for the rest of their lives."
But we all know the reality, dating back to JFK, is that appearance and charisma etc. are a huge factor in getting elected.yea i kinda wish Warren was a more natural politician. and i readily understand that it's absurd that shit like that matters - but for the general electorate, it does. although perhaps after having a reality show buffoon for 4 years, the nation just might be ready for a boring professor.
I watched the town halls last night, couldn't stay awake for all of Mayor Pete's because it started at 11. He's the only one who disagreed with Sanders about convicted felons who are still incarcerated being able to vote.
I don't think they should be able to either.
The rest is just kind of overload to me at this point. I've chosen who I couldn't vote for in the primary and that's it.
How come? Especially regarding the large portion of people incarcerated for what are minor drug related convictions etc.
I'm not voting for Joe Biden. Same old white guy forever politician. Even more that that, it angers me that he was so reluctant to admit that his unwanted touching is wrong. So focused on his "intentions" that are completely irrelevant. It's about how the recipient feels. He seems arrogant and out of touch about all of it.
It even mentions that Cohen actually sought information on the pee tape, but was told (by a Russian) that the tape was fake. But, uh, why would you go looking for it unless you had reason to believe that it could actually exist?
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Buried in a footnote in Section II B of Volume II of the redacted Mueller report is a single reference to supposed kompromat the Russian government was rumored to have on the president — the infamous “pee tape.” The report confirms that then-FBI director James Comey briefed President-elect Trump about the report in January 2017, but it also reveals that the Trump campaign was privately aware as early as October 2016 — more than two months before BuzzFeed News published the Steele dossier — that embarrassing tapes of then-candidate Donald Trump might exist in Russia.
According to the report, on October 30th, 2016, Trump’s private attorney and fixer Michael Cohen received a text from a Russian businessman involved in the Trump Tower Moscow deal, in progress for more than a year. “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know….” Giorgi Rtskhiladze wrote to Cohen. Cohen told investigators he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze.
Rtskhiladze later admitted he had been told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen, the report says.
Rtskhiladze’s description of the tapes’ content tracks with the unverified information included in the Steele dossier, which claimed that Trump watched Russian prostitutes urinate in a Moscow hotel room in 2013. “Rtskhiladze said ‘tapes’ referred to compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia.”
The Crocus Group’s president is Aras Agalarov. It was Agalarov’s son, the Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who brokered the June 9th, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer, who promised to deliver “official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary.”
Besides the Trump Tower Moscow project, the report also says Rtskhiladze was involved in discussions for a Trump-branded project in Astana, Kazakhstan, and had previously been involved in a development deal with the Trump Organization in Batumi, Georgia. Separately, the report says Rtskhiladze had worked on business ventures in Moscow, including a licensing deal with the Agalarov-owned Crocus Group.
According to the report, Cohen forwarded a preliminary design study for the Trump Moscow project to Rtskhiladze, in September 2015 writing, “I look forward to your reply about this spectacular project in Moscow.” Rtskhiladze forwarded Cohen’s email to an associate and wrote, “f we could organize the meeting in New York at the highest level of the Russian Government and Mr. Trump this project would definitely receive the worldwide attention.”
In his book, A Higher Loyalty, James Comey wrote that after he briefed Trump, the then-president-elect asked him to investigate and prove the report was a lie. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’…adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey writes. “He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him.”
but again... why would you go looking for something if it didn't happen?
That's fair.In this instance I'm guessing it's because Michael Cohen thought it was at least plausible that it happened so he went about his usual business (cleaning the poopy mess).