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demmiblue's JournalStacey Abrams: "I would be an excellent running mate"
Source: Axios
Stacey Abrams told Elle she would be "honored" to be Joe Biden's vice presidential pick, arguing that she has "the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities."
Flashback: Biden advisers pondered packaging his campaign announcement last year with a pledge to choose Abrams as his running mate, as Axios' Mike Allen reported, and the former vice president has since committed to choosing a woman for the slot.
What she said:
"I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities. I have a strong history of executive and management experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. I've spent 25 years in independent study of foreign policy. I am ready to help advance an agenda of restoring America’s place in the world. If I am selected, I am prepared and excited to serve."
Read more: https://www.axios.com/stacey-abrams-vice-president-joe-biden-547d3abe-1287-4628-bc9c-6e2048b6da7e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
This hilarious PSA from the New Zealand Police pokes fun at the struggles of using video...
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1250414320707461121Elizabeth Warren to endorse Joe Biden on Wednesday
Source: CNN
(CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren will officially endorse former Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday morning, according to a source familiar with the plans.
The former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate is expected to tweet out a video announcing her support and send an email to supporters.
Warren's endorsement comes two days after Sen. Bernie Sanders officially got behind Biden's campaign, with the Vermont senator calling on his allies to now support the presumptive Democratic nominee. When Warren ended her campaign last month, there was intense speculation about whether she would get behind either Biden or Sanders.
But as time passed and Biden continued to grow his delegate lead, when asked about a potential endorsement, Warren publicly said that she was focused on the coronavirus pandemic and also that she wanted to give Sanders "space to decide what he wants to do next."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/elizabeth-warren-endorses-biden/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2020-04-15T12%3A49%3A29&utm_medium=social
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1250408560606969856
Kellyanne Conway: "This is COVID-19, not COVID-1 folks, and so you would think the people in charge
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1250395628305362944
Stacey Abrams: I teamed up with @amyklobuchr to encourage #VoteByMail and call on Congress to act
Check out our video and join us: http://amy.team/VoteByMail
https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1250064527401668617
Senator Richard Burr Sold D.C. Townhouse to Donor at a Rich Price
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, has come under fire in recent weeks for unloading stock holdings right before the market crashed on fears of coronavirus and for a timely sale of shares in an obscure Dutch fertilizer company.
Now the North Carolina Republican’s 2017 sale of his Washington, D.C., home to a group led by a donor and powerful lobbyist who had business before Burr’s committee is raising additional ethical questions.
Burr sold the small townhouse, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, for what, by some estimates, was an above market price — $900,000 — to a team led by lobbyist John Green. That is tens of thousands of dollars above some estimates of the property’s value by tax assessors, a real estate website and a local real estate agent. The sale was done off-market, without the home being listed for sale publicly.
Green is a longtime donor to Burr’s political campaigns and has co-hosted at least one fundraiser for him. In 2017, the year of the sale, Green lobbied on behalf of a stream of clients with business before Burr’s committees.
Ethics experts are generally troubled when politicians enter into business transactions with donors or lobbyists with matters before them. The legality of this sale hinges on whether the home was purchased for fair market value. If it was purchased for more than that, it would be considered a gift. Gifts of significant value from lobbyists are generally banned by Senate ethics rules, and those that aren’t are typically required to be publicly disclosed. Neither Burr nor Green disclosed any such gifts. Gifts that are intended to influence official actions are illegal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-richard-burr-sold-d-c-townhouse-to-donor-at-a-rich-price?utm_content=buffer69d62&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ProPublica+Main+
He can't help himself (and fuck her for playing a part in this shit show) ...
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250111274429579265https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250115696173998081
* I am glad she recovered, but c'mon! Sell out.
Bette Midler: Huh. Not a good look (Amazon related).
NEW: Dems In Array
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1250037913338986496Many younger voters are not old enough to remember a Democratic presidential primary that ended so quickly and congenially. Could it help Joe Biden in the fall?
WASHINGTON — It may have taken a once-in-a-century pandemic, but the Democrats are not in disarray.
After presidential primary races in 2008 and 2016 that stretched across all 50 states, the 2020 contest ended on an altogether tidy note on Monday as Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on a live stream with Joseph R. Biden Jr. and told him: “We need you in the White House.”
The endorsement was quick in the making, full-throated in nature and offered a vivid illustration of how differently this election is unfolding from the often bitter last two Democratic nominating contests.
“The way Bernie did this was really helpful,” said former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont. “There is clearly no animosity between the two of them and this will definitely make it easier for Bernie’s supporters to vote for Biden.”
Among those Sanders voters are thousands of young people who are not old enough to remember a Democratic primary that concluded so quickly and quietly. Many of the Generation Z and millennial progressives going to the polls this fall grew up on ideological fights and policy debates that lasted until everyone had a chance to vote in the primaries.
Not since 2004 has the Democratic Party rallied behind its nominee this early. That year, when a Republican incumbent was also in the White House, Mr. Dean, John F. Kerry and a handful of other Democrats competed through just seven weeks of primaries and caucuses before Mr. Kerry stood alone and triumphant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/biden-bernie-sanders-2020-democrats.html#click=https://t.co/JLYyCSl3Hi
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