US election 2020

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Democratic Primaries (Overall):

Estimated Delegate Count:
- Joe Biden = 1,180
- Bernie Sanders = 885
- Elizabeth Warren (Withdrawn) = 72
- Michael Bloomberg (Withdrawn) = 61
- Pete Buttigieg (Withdrawn) = 26
- Amy Kloubuchar (Withdrawn) = 7
- Tulsi Gabbard = 2

Popular Vote (%):
- Joe Biden = 10,006,872 (40.9%)
- Bernie Sanders = 7,515,880 (30.7%)
- Elizabeth Warren (Withdrawn) = 2,447,511 (10.0%)
- Michael Bloomberg (Withdrawn) = 2,407,011 (9.8%)
- Pete Buttigieg (Withdrawn) = 826,433 (3.4%)
- Amy Klobuchar (Withdrawn) = 482,235 (2.0%)
- Tulsi Gabbard = 163,023 (0.7%)

Contests Won:
- Joe Biden = 19
- Bernie Sanders = 8
- Michael Bloomberg = 1
- Pete Buttigieg = 1
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Republican Primaries (Overall):

Estimated Delegate Count:
- Donald Trump = 1,454
- Bill Weld = 1

Popular Vote (%):
- Donald Trump = 11,419,917 (93.8%)
- Bill Weld = 254,881 (2.1%)

Contests Won:
- Donald Trump = 26

Trump is officially the presumptive nominee for the GOP having surpassed 1,276 delegates.

stui magpie · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:24 pm

The Bern is apparently getting cranky with questions about when he is going to pack up his campaign and concede. Read an article where he swore at the reporter and said he was busy dealing with the Coronavirus.

Confused

He does understand that he's just a senator, he isn't doing bugger all about Corvid 19.

Pack it up Bernie, it's over. Self isolate for the next 9 months, quit the senate, sell a few of your houses and kick back.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Meanwhile, Joe Biden has some important news for us all:

https://youtu.be/BS5HCi-zsYE

stui magpie · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:02 pm

He's got hairy legs Laughing

Biden is borderline senile and will lose to Trump.

Bernie is a socialist preaching revolution while spending decades sucking cash from the very public purse he purports to want to bring down

Trump is Trump. More a tazer to the nads than a red rag to a bull for a large number of people who have zero say in his election. The same people, I suspect, will have similar levels of apoplexy and denial if Jacinda Ardern fails to get re-elected PM which is highly likely.

I'm with TP. I enjoy the angst of people when it's based on their world view not matching reality.

pietillidie · Joined: 07 Jan 2005

^I for one don't enjoy their financial crises, trade wars, destabilisation and gross mismanagement, though. They're 2/2 with Bush and Trump; it's like a game of "elect the most incompetent and unfit moron you can find and see what happens".

Perhaps that's not the unrealistic world view to which you refer Wink

Australian politics has one up on the US and UK in that the cancer that is Abbott is in remission. That goes in the plus column.

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/19/tulsi-gabbard-quits-democratic-presidential-race

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Wow! Really thought she was gearing up for a third-party run. Certainly didn’t expect her to back Biden. Guess everyone’s angling for favours now.

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

Perhaps she gets to be on his ticket as would-be VP.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Haha, that’d be something. Laughing

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Biden has been accused of sexual assault:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/joe-biden-faces-sexual-assault-211641946.html

Remains to be seen whether the mainstream press will run with it – so far, radio silence.

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

Of course, you only "believe all women' when someone on the Right is accused. It's all "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" when they're on the left.

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

You're right about the crickets, remember Trump had a consensual tryst with a porn star and it was wall to wall coverage.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Of course they're silent, because the establishment media wants Biden to win the Presidency.

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

What about Biden's actual politics makes him "on the left"? He's part of the problem, not the solution.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

What is clear is that his politics, wherever we put them along the spectrum (I would say centre-right), are mostly shared by CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and that all of those news organisations have an interest in him being elected. Whether that will interfere with how they choose to cover this story is up for conjecture, but the silence is deafening.