Cluelessly, Schumer is urging former Colorado Senator Frackenlooper to drop his presidential bid-- that's not the cluelsss part-- and run for the Colorado Senate seat instead-- that's the clueless part. That would set up a Democratic Party specialty: a lesser of two evils race that would make Democratic voters sick to their stomachs. Frackenlooper is detested in his own state. No one wants him to run for anything again-- except Schumer-- and hangers on who earn a living from the Frackenlooper political career. Tuesday, Politico reported that his "senior team urged him last month to withdraw from the presidential race gracefully and run for Colorado’s Senate seat or pursue other opportunities." It's too late for "gracefully."His campaign "only has about 13,000 donors, making it almost impossible to qualify for the next round of presidential debates in the fall. The campaign also only raised just over $1 million in the second quarter-- about what he raised in the first 48 hours of his candidacy-- and will likely run out of money completely in about a month. At least five staffers have left or are leaving Hickenlooper’s struggling operation, including his campaign manager, communications director, digital director and finance director."
Hickenlooper publicly blamed his former staff Tuesday for his failure to gain traction in the crowded Democratic primary.“We thought it was time to make a change,” he told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin. “You know, these campaigns are long, hard campaigns and you don’t always get it right with the first team.”But a source familiar with the situation disputed the governor’s characterization, saying he is lashing out at the political professionals around him and surrounding himself with Colorado loyalists rather than confronting reality....Hickenlooper has so far resisted calls to run for Senate, despite appeals from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who chairs Senate Democrats’ campaign arm. If he were to change his mind and run to challenge Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, he would now face another crowded primary.
Frackenlooper's polling numbers are a joke. They were a joke before the debates and more of a joke after the debates. He definitely didn't legitimately qualify for the first debate but DNC chair Tom Perez pulled some strings to make it look like he did. His national polling average, according to RealClearPolitics is 0.2%.in the most recent poll of Democratic primary voters for ABC News and the Washington Post he didn't get a single vote. Same in the new Quinnipiac poll. Not even when his name was offered did anyone bite. Not one person surveyed said they would vote for him. NOT ONE!That's hard on any politician's ego. Sam Dorman, reporting for Fox.com, wrote that he isn't raising any money post-debate either--and he noted that Frackenlooper "took a shot at his fellow 2020 Democrats, suggesting that his fundraising numbers were lower than theirs because they promised free stuff to voters. MSNBC invited Frackenlooper on anyway, where he said "The bottom line is for a small campaign like us from a, you know-- Colorado's about 6 million or a little less than 6 million people-- it's harder to raise money because we don't, we're not promising free health care or, you know... free tuition for everyone, to forgive student debt." I guess that's less painful than dealing with the real causes for the utter rejection he's faced as voters got to know him and his ideas better. Less painful for him and less painful for an idiot like Schumer, who seems almost eager to lose the opportunity to win the Colorado U.S.Senate seat by ticking off a conventional wisdom box.