US election 2020

[Jezza]

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- Elizabeth Warren (Withdrawn) = 72
- Michael Bloomberg (Withdrawn) = 61
- Pete Buttigieg (Withdrawn) = 26
- Amy Kloubuchar (Withdrawn) = 7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- Elizabeth Warren (Withdrawn) = 2,447,511 (10.0%)
- Michael Bloomberg (Withdrawn) = 2,407,011 (9.8%)
- Pete Buttigieg (Withdrawn) = 826,433 (3.4%)
- Amy Klobuchar (Withdrawn) = 482,235 (2.0%)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]

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.

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]

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

https://youtu.be/BS5HCi-zsYE

[stui magpie]

He's got hairy legs

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]

^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

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]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ntial-race

[David]

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]

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

[David]

Haha, that’d be something.

[David]

[Wokko]

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]

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 ... -times-up/

[Jezza]

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

[Pies4shaw]

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

[David]

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.