Deval Patrick Said His Record Of Fixing Problems Other Candidates Only Have Plans For Is Resonating

[brooklynite]

Resonating

WASHINGTON — Deval Patrick is offering a blunt defense of his record as his rationale for entering the race for president, saying that as a two-term governor, he’s already proved his ability to deliver on “a lot of the stuff” that other candidates in the race only “have plans for.”

“A lot of the stuff that voters say they're interested in, and that candidates have plans for, I’ve already done. So for me it's not about having a plan or ambition — it's about having results. In New Hampshire, folks know what I'm talking about. Those proof points are familiar to them and people are open to it,” Patrick told BuzzFeed News in an interview in Washington, DC. “It is something I bring to the race that the other very capable candidates don’t.”

Patrick has said that he doesn’t see any part of his campaign’s approach or its message as a “critique” of other candidates. But his jab at the use of strictly policy proposals as the foundation for a pitch to primary voters is evidence of how he plans to use his record as governor to persuade voters. And it shows a strategy, especially in New Hampshire — which shares a border and media market with Massachusetts, where Patrick served as governor for eight years — for Patrick to dislodge the candidate many will see as the nameless target of his dismissal of “plans”: Elizabeth Warren.

Patrick has been in Washington making stops to campaign, mostly to small audiences. On Sunday night, that included a holiday cocktail party for the Washington Association of Black Journalists.

More likely it's just the uneven road surface...

[LakeArenal]

1. Maybe he hears his own echo....

[Thekaspervote]

2. Ouch!!

[Otto Lidenbrock]

3. Unfortunately this did not work for Governors Inslee, Hickenlooper and Bullock

And it's a shame because aside from being Vice President of the United States, the next closest job to being President of the United States is being Governor of a state.

Being a governor means you have the responsibility of executive office.

[comradebillyboy]

4. He's still in the race?