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If your first reaction to Ben Jealous winning is to moan he has no chance against Gov. Hogan, reality check: polls showed Baker was not really a stronger candidate. There's like a 2-point difference in their RCP averages. realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/go… realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/go…
#MDGov was always going to be a stretch goal for us no matter who we nominate.

Hogan is not a good gov, but he's popular because 1) he's constrained by a Dem state legislature and 2) he criticizes Trump. If we want to win, beating his brand matters more than selecting ours.
Also: if you reflexively dismiss Jealous solely because he backed Bernie Sanders, I suggest you check yourself. He was not a Buster. As a civil rights leader he understood the stakes in the 2016 election, and he has a great platform to boot. I have no bad blood with him.
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There are two points everyone should understand:

1) The "border crisis" is completely manufactured by Trump's own policies. If he treated migrants humanely, there would be no crisis.

2) A border wall is not border security and would fix nothing. It's just a vanity project.
Another point people should understand is that most refugees at our border are fleeing from chaos caused by our own policy.

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Pelosi is going to vote on the bipartisan deal McConnell passed two weeks ago, @SavannahGuthrie. Her bill IS the compromise.

Trump welched on that bill, because he's trying to shift the goalposts of what constitutes a "compromise" toward him. And you're helping him do it.
If Pelosi said, "fine, we'll give you half of what you want for your wall," Trump would then demand a compromise between that and his original demand. Then a compromise between that compromise and his original demand. And so on and so on.

He tried the exact same thing with DACA.
This is what Trump did in business, @SavannahGuthrie, and it's what he does in politics. Agree to something, stiff the other guy, and force them to fight him to be treated fairly.

Only difference is, this time he picked on someone a lot smarter and tougher than he is.
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If I hear one more person making this stupid suggestion I'm going to put a fist through my wall.

The point of 2020 is to elect a good president, not a blah president for the sake of letting someone you like add "VP" to their resume.
If you like Biden, that's fine, support Biden. If you like Beto, that's fine, support Beto.

But STOP with this "have Biden run for just one term then run Beto" bullshit. That's insulting to both of them. It suggests you don't have real confidence in either as a candidate.
Also, to hell with the idea that Kamala Harris would need to take a backseat to anyone on the ticket.

By 2020, she will have had literally the exact same amount of Senate experience as Obama, and *more* experience than him in statewide office overall.
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1) Corbyn reality check
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"Trump has used Harley-Davidson as an example of a US business that is being harmed by trade barriers. Yet Harley has warned consistently against tariffs, saying they would negatively impact sales"

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