2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[tyven]

Out in the street, they call it murder.

sick reference bro

[Churchill]

can't wait for america to be great again

[notorious bum]

This thread is so corny. It has to be Brian Williams' doing.

[Cjskater]

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.c...40cfbc891fb545

“I’ve got unanswered calls on my phone right now, ‘Oh, if you did this or did this, and did this, or if you drop out and support this guy, we’ll give you all this money and we’ll make sure you’re a senator here,’” Carson said. “What a bunch of crap. This is about saving our nation. This is not about horse-trading and making deals.”

Carson told a reporter afterward that he wasn’t going to say who called him, but said his reaction is those people can “go jump in a lake.”

Based sleepyman

[Tyche]

Trump is facing lightweights on the debate stage who stupidly sling shit with him. Rubio is essentially a freshman senator. Cruz should know better but has fucked up through shady campaigning and now Trump is eating him alive. Clinton is old school savvy and a hell of a player on the debate stage. I don't think Trump will best her. At least not as easily as the ragtag crew he's facing on the GOP stage.

[Sho]

Best election cycle of all time.

Trump threatening 3rd party again, lol

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Someone caught Trump sending Christie home after being introduced by him at Tennessee:



Probably means absolutely nothing, but people making a big deal of it across the net.

[JigglyJam]

I love it

[Kyreth]

Best election cycle of all time.

Someone caught Trump sending Christie home after being introduced by him at Tennessee:

"Hail HYDRA" moment right there.

[Quicklet]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard resigned as a vice chairwoman of the DNC in order to endorse Sanders. I'm actually surprised at this, since everytime I've heard her talk about foreign policy she's sounded rather hawkish.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...o-back-sanders

I don't think this changes much in terms of the primary race, but could be a sign of the direction the party is headed in. I imagine there are more officials out there who are in line with Bernie's positions, but don't want to defy the Clinton machine if they think she's still going to come out on top.

[kuronosan]

I think Clinton has a good chance at winning but the more that step in the direction of Sanders the more it changes her favor.

[myreality]

Resigned from DNC, also a very well done speech.

Aloha. I’m Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
As a veteran of two Middle East deployments, I know firsthand the cost of war.
I know how important it is that our commander-in-chief has the sound judgment required ….. to know when to use America's military power--and when not to use that power.
As vice chairman of the DNC I am required to stay neutral in Democratic primaries, but I cannot remain neutral any longer. The stakes are too high.

[Churchill]

So if you are a republican you should vote for hillary and if you are a democrat you should vote for trump

[kuronosan]

The irony.

[6souls]

And if you don't identify with either, there is always Deez Nutz.

[Zealot]

I've met Tulsi Gabbard, she's flat-out good people.

[6souls]

At that Cruz event that Glenn Beck was hosting, then crashed by Trump, Glenn voiced his support for Sanders which perplexed the entire crowd. The RNC is slowly getting their sub-leaders to voice their support for Bernie as they feel he is more beatable than Clinton.

[Krandor]

Don't see how that strategy would work out when they all would have to flip flop but there's recent evidence of them supporting him.

Unless we've truly entered some bizarro realm where Republicans want people to vote for Sanders over Trump.

[archibaldcrane]

I wonder if Trump's anti-Mexican sentiment has any chance of mobilizing the Hispanic vote to the point where Arizona, or even Texas, could be in play.

[Silenka]

Don't see how that strategy would work out when they all would have to flip flop but there's recent evidence of them supporting him.

Unless we've truly entered some bizarro realm where Republicans want people to vote for Sanders over Trump.

This entire election has been the realm of the bizarre.

[Marootsoobutsu]