Amy Klobuchar bows out and endorses Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders. |
She told staffers that she was going to Alabama to march with the candidates in Selma. Then she made the decision to exit and ger behind a candidate who can bring the party together.
A day before Super Tuesday, Klobuchar talked to her campaign staff announcing on Saturday that she will end her presidential bid and formally endorse the former vice president in Dallas, Texas on Monday.
Also her former rival, Pete Buttigieg will formally endorse Biden. Buttigieg formally left the race on Saturday as well as Tom Steyer. Klobuchar and Buttigieg had fought during the debates over who can appeal to the Midwestern voters. The so-called "Flyover Country" where millions of Democratic voters went over to support Trump.
Klobuchar had momentum coming out of New Hampshire. She had got the formal backing of the Des Moines Register, The New York Times and had the backing of AIPAC, the controversial pro-Israeli lobbyist group that pours money into keeping apartheid in Israel.
She couldn't repeat the successes in diverse states like Nevada and South Carolina.
Klobuchar saw that she would be losing to frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Minnesota.
With her endorsement of Biden, the former vice president looks to be the consolidating moderate Democrats and worried lawmakers. Sanders, a progressive who is an independent refers himself as a "democratic socialist" is winning support from the younger and diverse group of Democrats.
Klobuchar launched her campaign pledging to focus on the "nation's heartland," hoping to use her status as a Midwesterner to convince Democrats that the best way to defeat Donald J. Trump is to nominate someone who could bring back disaffected voters in places like Michigan and Wisconsin.
On the campaign trail, she frequently joked about building a "Blue Wall" around the Midwest and making "Donald Trump pay for it." Those two states, which backed Barack Obama and then flipped to Trump, will be critical in the general election.
"I have the receipts," Klobuchar repeatedly said in the close of her campaign, pointing to the fact that she won some of Minnesota's more rural, conservative counties.
Klobuchar wanted to prove to the Democrats that the Midwest still has a voice. She said she will proudly support Joe Biden for the nomination for president. |
The senator, though, turned in a fifth-place finish in Iowa.
That left Klobuchar weakened in New Hampshire until, days before voters went to the polls there, the senator delivered an electric debate performance that raised her campaign millions, filled her following campaign events with people and gave her enough momentum to notch a third-place finish in the state.
Klobuchar leaves the race with a warning to Democrats, especially because the front-runners for the nomination are now two white men in their 70s. Klobuchar, at debates and events across the country, has highlighted the ability for women to win, pointing to the success of Democratic women in the 2018 midterms as proof.
"Look at the facts. Michigan has a woman governor right now and she beat a Republican -- Gretchen Whitmer. Kansas has a woman governor right now and she beat Kris Kobach," Klobuchar said at the CNN/Des Moines Register debate in Iowa. "You have to be competent to win and you have to know what you're doing."
The senator put a finer point on it: "You don't have to be the skinniest person in the room. You don't have to be the loudest person. You have to be competent."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Michael Bloomberg, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) are the only candidates left in this race. If they don't pull off any victories on Tuesday, then the game is over.
Biden and Sanders are the only two candidates with a least a modest momentum going into Super Tuesday.
Democrats are very nervous about their chances. Donald J. Trump has a 65% chance of winning reelection.
Sanders and Biden are going to be hammered over their policies, their statements, their supporters and the Russian government is meddling in the election to assure that they'll fail and Trump will win again.
Sanders was informed by the U.S. intelligence agencies last month about Russia meddling.
Trump was impeached after he demanded Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. Trump formally fired the whistleblower, those who testified against him and put in cronies to assure they'll never leak information about his motives to win (at any means). The Republican majority didn't prosecute Trump. Trump now feels like he's "untouchable" and despite all the problems in the world and at home, he looks poised to carry Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa and likely New Hampshire.
I fear that Sanders will cause a rift within the party forcing moderate Democrats in states like Arizona, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio and Michigan to fail. He and Biden have ran before and lost to the eventual nominee. So it's almost hard to tell how this is going to end well for either party.
If Biden wins the nomination, you're going to hear the Sanders supporters complain about the system being rigged. Far-white agitators and Trump trying to encourage them to vote for Republicans or stay at home. You're going to see Democrats formally reject Sanders if the Democratic nominee loses.
If Sanders win the nomination, you're going to see Bloomberg enter the race as an independent and he will split the Democratic vote. Bloomberg has been angered by Sanders and Warren's attacks on him. He said that the populist tone towards hating billionaires and moderates will turn voters away from Sanders if he becomes the nominee.
Also, why the hell is Gabbard is still in the race?
Apparently, she is the stooge of the Republicans and Russia.
Trump will exploit the nominee's weaknesses and try to steal the election through voter suppression, Russian meddling, smear campaigns and Fox News agitators like Rupert "Pervert" Murdoch and Sean "Softball" Hannity.
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