Gillibrand rarely gets out of zero percent in any presidential polls and when she does, it's to briefly hit one percent before sinking back to where she richly deserves to be. Democratic primary voters don't want her as president (or vice president) but she doesn't want to see it. Awesome; she has earned the frustration she must be feeling now.
You wouldn't believe the number of people asking why DWT has nothing to say about Alex Thompson's reporting on the knock-out punch administered to one of the Democratic also-rans, Kirsten Gillibrand. Thompson's original blockbuster Politico article, Former Gillibrand aide resigned in protest over handling of sex harassment claims, was pretty thorough.
Jim McGovern (D-MA) is one of the most progressive members of Congress. His D+9 central Massachusetts district-- which includes Worcester, Northampton, Amherst and Uxbridge-- gave Trump just 36.8% of its vote. Last year McGovern beat Republican Tracy Lovvorn two to one-- 191,332 (67.2%) to 93,391 (32.8%). In the 2 decades between 1998 and 2018, the Republicans had only fielded candidates against him in 2004 (28%) and 2010 (39.2%). He has a safe seat and his 96.7 ProgressivePunch lifetime crucial vote score is in the top 10 in Congress.
JP Sottile joined me in the first hour to discuss the current political climate and the soon approaching 2020 Presidential election. We talked about the possibility of Trump not running in 2020 and the potential Republicans that might take his place. JP floated the idea of both John Kasich and Nikki Haley running. Later we talked about the seemingly endless list of Democrats lining up to take the nomination. JP and I touch on Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Mitch Landrieu, John Hickenlooper, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Joe Biden.
I'm not the only one who's noticed that Trump would have probably been happier as a TV critics than as a failed, illegitimate fake-president. And, sure enough, former White House aide Cliff Sims' new book, Team of Vipers described Trump as he watched TV in his private dining room off the Oval Office: "He consumed TV like the late Roger Ebert must have watched movies...
I got that invitation above the other day and said to myself, "self, didn't Katie Hill say she wasn't going to take PAC money?" Maybe not; maybe I was thinking of almost every other freshman. Or maybe there was some Philadelphia lawyer language in the statement about not taking-- let alone soliciting-- which this invitation clearly is. So I tweeted it. A top Hill chief of staff write to me immediately: "I saw your tweet.
Kirsten Gillibrand by Nancy OhanianPaul Waldman welcomed Kirsten Gillibrand to the fray by citing psychologist Barry Schwartz's 2004 book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, pointing out that "there's a point at which having more choices-- say for 75 different kinds of shampoo-- not only can become paralyzing, it makes us less happy with whatever option we eventually settle on." He's worried that the media, let alone the voters in Iowa, won't be ab
Yesterday, we posted Chapter V of The Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President: Terry McAuliffe. You can take a look at the entire series here.
It's been two weeks since we kicked off the series with Tulsi Gabbard, an obscure congresswoman from Hawaii who wants to be president (of the United States). Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, is slightly better-known.
Albright: "Younger women, Hillary Clinton will always be there for you" ... plus that other thing she said.by Gaius Publius How cynical is the Democratic Party's support for identity politics? To this observer, it seems impossible not to notice that those in control of the Democratic Party care about "identity politics" — about supporting more women, more people of color, more LGBTQ candidates, etc. — only when it suits them. Which means, if you take this view, that their vocal support for the underlying principles of "identity politics" is both cynical and insincere.
