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CLIMATE "Thursday hiring of Jeff Berman, a Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton veteran, is the latest step his presidential campaign has taken away from the insurgent energy of his Senate run and toward a more centrist and corporate strategic direction." LOSS TO CRUZ "In contrast to the 20 or so other 2020 candidates—all of them in various ways overachievers who tout the litanies of their successes—O’Rourke instead presents his loss to Cruz as a prominent selling point."

Pete joined the already crowded race in April. Not much was known about him other than he was a mayor of the 4th largest city in Indiana, South Bend, and that he dropped out of the DNC Chair race  in 2017. Here is just a few things that have come up so far since it is mid-May and he hasn't posted a issues page on his website yet. GENTRIFICATION Two years ago today, Mayor Pete ordered South Bend police to bulldoze a homeless encampment. This is what Pete’s leadership looks like. He speaks eight languages, and clearly empathy isn’t one of them. pic.twitter.com/DjXcM3thjd — Samuel D. Finkelstein II (@CANCEL_SAM) December 5, 2019 The main thing that will always hit a mayor especially is how they dealt with gentrification in their city. Buttigieg supporters will say he did the right thing by going after the abandoned homes but his critics will point out where those homes were and that people could have moved in and fixed them up.   "But the st...

Why You Shouldn't Support Kamala Harris For The Upcoming 2020 Election: a thread pic.twitter.com/rJVDSfJ5tQ — Nikola (@niktaylorde) June 30, 2019 CRIME Kamala Harris explains her 'Back on Track' program which involved charging and convicting first-time drug offenders, many of whom were mothers and domestic abuse victims, before entering them into jobs programs instead of jail. pic.twitter.com/T498yIWaDS — Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 25, 2019 There's no need to do this through the prosecutors office, &Harris brags about how she told prosecutors to "look mean" an intimidate parents. Also specifically references the spectre of adult black criminals to justify criminalizing young black children pic.twitter.com/DYnyH2LO5k — Nate Platinum ⌬ (@delmoi) January 31, 2019 Kamala Harris continued on to describe how she'd brought charges against a single homeless mother of 3 who was working 2 jobs because her ...

Here is a collection of reasons Joe Biden should not be president... Just a little mashup of just how NOT progressive Joe is. "I have the most progressive record of anybody running..." - Joe Biden, March 2019 pic.twitter.com/Id9a5xEPEJ — Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) May 5, 2019 BUDGET This is Biden speaking on the balance budget amendment in 1995...the same one Bernie talked about opposing. It's worth pointing out that this was the same balanced budget amendment Joe Biden spoke in favor of and voted for. Here's that video, also from January 1995. pic.twitter.com/mgDFxAvylO — Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) May 7, 2019 CIVIL RIGHTS Joe Biden once referred to Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson as “that boy.” pic.twitter.com/NXW7mTqkWt — Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) June 20, 2019 These first two tweets tell a story of how Biden kept lying about marching with the civil rights movement in the 60's. So t...

This was originally posted on April 24, 2018. A few of the senators were voted out last November but are still included here :)