Joe Biden is moving closer to consolidating the support of moderate Democratic voters and donors after a resounding victory in South Carolina and Pete Buttigieg‘s departure from the party‘s presidential race.
Archiv: booting Buttigieg
Buttigieg‘s exit is better for Biden than Sanders
Let‘s start with the simple fact that Biden has been hovering around the 15% threshold for delegates in a number of states, including the huge Super Tuesday delegate prize of California. Biden was at 13% in a CNN/SSRS poll conducted there. Buttigieg was at 7%. If Biden gets two points of that 7%, it could make all the difference in the world to him. That alone could net Biden dozens or more of delegates.
Buttigieg is out as Democrats march toward Super Tuesday and beyond
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders holds substantial leads in the two largest states to vote in this week‘s Super Tuesday lineup of primaries, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in California and Texas.
Trump: Buttigieg dropping out is start of Dems ‚taking Bernie out of play‘
Trump predicted in a tweet that the majority of Buttigieg‘s votes in Super Tuesday states would go to Biden, thereby hamstringing Sanders‘s chances of obtaining the Democratic nomination.
„Pete Buttigieg is OUT,“ Trump wrote. „All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play – NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!“
Buttigieg dropping out of presidential race
Buttigieg is on his way to South Bend, where he will make the announcement later tonight.
Intelligence Sources: All Candidates Are Russian Agents But Pete Buttigieg
Today’s Caitlin Johnstone essay has been replaced by this breaking report by the National News Conglomerate. NNC: Obey.
And hey @PeteButtigieg , try to not be so smug when you just got your ass kicked. You know how we form a winning coalition to beat Trump? With a true multi-racial coalition of working Americans: something @BernieSanders has proven he can do + you haven’t. Dude, show some humility
Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan
While official records linking the ATFC to the CIA do not appear widely in available government documents, their collaboration is an open secret. One early report by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, an advocacy organization for the US intelligence community, noted “the cell has about two-dozen members drawn from the Drug Enforcement Administration, US Central Command, the Treasury Department and the CIA. The FBI is expected to join soon.”
Global news wire Agency France-Presse characterized ATFC as “a multi-agency organization currently comprising about 30 specialists on loan from the Department of Drug Enforcement, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, Department of Defense’s CENTCOM, the CIA and the FBI.”
Buttigieg surges in poll ahead of New Hampshire primary
Democratic presidential hopeful and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg‘s support has surged in New Hampshire ahead of the state‘s primary, according to a new WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University daily tracking poll released on Thursday night.
Buttigieg Faces Tough Battle to Repeat Iowa Feat in Later States
The once-improbable path for Pete Buttigieg to in the Democratic presidential nomination hinged on a strong performance in the Iowa caucuses.
This is why Pete Buttigieg did well in Iowa
(05.02.2020)
CNN‘s John King explains why 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads more experienced politicians in the Iowa caucuses.
Pete Buttigieg claimed victory in Iowa before any results were reported
(04.02.2020)
„So we don‘t know all the results, but we know by the time, it‘s all said and done, Iowa you have shocked the nation. Because by all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious,“ Buttigieg told the crowd in comments that drew criticism online.
This is insane, still no reporting on my precinct here in NW Iowa. We are not a satellite location, we are a precinct of less than 100 people! #BernieWonIA #WTFIDP
Iowa Caucus Results Riddled With Errors and Inconsistencies
The results released by the Iowa Democratic Party on Wednesday were riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws. According to a New York Times analysis, more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent, that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules of the Iowa caucuses.
so, wait…still no Iowa results?
Nothing that I can remember has damaged faith and credibility in US democracy like what happened in the Iowa Democratic Party caucus.
The Myth Of Incompetence: DNC Scandals Are A Feature, Not A Bug
The Iowa caucus scandal has continued to get more egregious by the hour, with new revelations routinely pouring in about extremely suspicious manipulations taking place which all just so happen to disadvantage the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic electoral contest of 2020. By the time you read this article, there will likely have been more.
Video confirmation
THERE YOU HAVE IT….@cnn just reported the @DNC is “running the show” on the release and handling of the #IowaCaucus results. It now makes perfect sense why results have been released this way…which just so happened to make @PeteButtigieg look like the winner for 2 days
It‘s very likely the Iowa dem party does it again by the way. Releases more info, like 86% or some shit, and *still* has Pete leading (albeit by a tinier amount). It‘ll give him ANOTHER round of fake ‚victory‘ press.
Hey why not pretend you’re a psycho & grin like an idiot without speaking while reporters ask you about your “victory” ?
SEEMS LEGIT: Watch How Pete Buttigieg ‘Randomly’ Wins Coin Toss in Iowa to Determine Who Gets Last Delegate in Tied Precinct (VIDEO)
Maybe this is how Hillary Clinton won 6-for-6 coin toss victories in Iowa in 2016?
Is anybody gonna ask Iowa Dem Party Chair Troy Price WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK he is doing partying w/Buttigieg folks and the CEO of the shitty app company *literally the day before* this all went down or nah?
The spooks’ choice: Coup plotters and CIA agents fill Pete Buttigieg’s list of national security endorsers
(30.12.2019)
These questions continue to loom large over the 2020 Democratic primary field: Who is Pete Buttigieg? And what is he doing here?
Seemingly overnight, the once obscure mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city was vaulted to national prominence, with his campaign coffers stuffed with big checks from billionaire benefactors.