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| Deval Patrick enters the race for the Democratic nomination. |
Trump has enough time to get at least one or two more Supreme Court nominees. With Democrats scrambling to find a candidate capable of beating Trump, it's seem highly unlikely one will emerge as a serious threat to him.
The field must be really weak for two potential contenders to jump into the race. I was really hoping former Texas lawmaker Beto O'Rourke would have stayed in the race. His departure kind of screwed up things.
Joe Biden was weakened by Donald J. Trump's relentless attacks on him. Despite having done nothing wrong, his acolytes like Sean "Softball" Hannity, John Solomon and Rudy Giuliani have tainted him with allegations about his son Hunter Biden.
Biden's missteps at the previous debate also came to question. His age and mental wellness are an issue.
Bernie Sanders still maintains a strong showing among young progressives and voters tired of the establishment. However, he had a heart attack and it quickly brought to question his health. Sanders won the approval of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). He has been trailing either in second or third place in most recent polls. Some of the establishment (former Hillary Clinton supporters) blame him for his refusal to exit gracefully.
Sanders and Biden have ran for the nomination and both lost. It's usually a tough sell to Democratic primary voters. If you lost to the nominee, why are still trying to run again?
Elizabeth Warren is getting more attention and its causing candidates like Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Buttigieg to claim that the junk food media is in the tank for her and not them. The very same shit once again that hurt Clinton is now hurting Warren. Warren also lost support of billionaires who support progressive causes. So it's likely she'll be a weak nominee if she wins delegates needed.
The rest are either polling lower than 1% or in dire need to get the campaign funds to continue on.
I feel that Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Beto O'Rourke went in too early. They should have waited til 2024 when Trump was out of office. There's no candidate viable to beat him.
Donald J. Trump has a 75% chance of winning reelection.
Do you believe President Donald Trump will win reelection in 2020? (Expect trolls to offer the dumbest answers and responses. This is an unscientific poll. We expect trolls to respond).
Patrick, 63, served as Massachusetts governor for two terms, from 2007 to 2015, and was most recently a managing director at Bain Capital, a private equity firm.
He was recently a contributor to CBS News. He was dropped soon after he announced his bid.
Patrick is a prominent African American in the Democratic Party and had been considered a viable candidate for president, given his past work as a federal prosecutor, his willingness to campaign for Democratic congressional candidates and his ties to former President Barack Obama. He had said last December that he would not run, citing the potential strain on friends and family.
It is unclear how Patrick's late decision to join the fray could reshape the Democratic contest. The Iowa caucus is less than three months away on February 3. And he starts far behind in a record-sized field that polling shows is now divided into two tiers — with the top tier consisting of Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
We're still waiting on Michael Bloomberg as well to run for president as well.
The two are so concerned that the party is going to get shellacked by Trump because the candidates are either too weak or there's not enough support for them in the general.
Patrick clearly believes he's a viable option and is expected to emphasize his service as Massachusetts governor — the only Democrat to lead the state this century.
During his eight years as governor, Patrick implemented a health care reform plan launched by his predecessor, Republican Mitt Romney, that later served as a model for Obamacare. He also raised the state's minimum wage to $11 per hour.
His work as a managing director at Bain Capital is likely to draw scrutiny from primary voters increasingly critical of corporations. Romney, a former Bain executive, was attacked by Democrats for his role at the firm when he ran for president in 2012.
Despite his corporate work, Patrick has remained engaged in Democratic politics and helped campaign nationwide for congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Since leaving the statehouse, Patrick has remained tight with a small cadre of consultants who advised him during his deliberations last year over whether to mount a campaign.
Patrick took a pass, saying he was "humbled" by encouragement from across the country to seek the presidency, but he knew "that the cruelty of our elections process would ultimately splash back on people whom Diane and I love, but who hadn't signed up for the journey."
His wife, Diane, had been treated for stage 1 uterine cancer, and has been given a good prognosis.
Before serving as governor, Patrick was general counsel at oil company Texaco and helped implement its 2000 merger with Chevron. He later served as general counsel at The Coca-Cola Company.
In 1994, he was appointed by Bill Clinton to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division and focused on investigating a series of arson fires at southern black churches.
In a glowing profile published by The New Yorker last year, Patrick said he campaigned during the 2018 midterm elections in congressional districts "where Democrats had not been competitive in a long time and were running at the grassroots level."
The article also retold the governor's story of growing up on the south side of Chicago, earning a scholarship to the elite Milton Academy prep school in Massachusetts and attending Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
He told the magazine he believes Democrats lost the presidency in 2016 because they failed to listen.
"I would say we get the government we deserve in a democracy," he said. "And if we want better government we have to engage, and a lot of folks have been disengaging for a long time, and not without reason."
Whether voters will want to listen to what Patrick is offering remains to be seen.
Patrick is married to his wife, former first lady Diane Patrick (nee Bumus) and have two daughters.
Patrick won't be able to make the cut at the MSNBC/Washington Post debate in Atlanta but he will register to be on the ballot in some of the early states.
