It's not common to announce a vice presidential partner during the primaries, but these are anything but common times.
This room won't be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come.It's Closing Time.
Last night was the last Democratic presidential debate before the Iowa Caucuses. The prelims are over and we're down to the finalists, even though not a single ballot has been cast. Twenty-eight candidates have thrown their hats into the ring. Twelve are still running. Six of those were on the debate stage. They are the presumptive frontrunners, along with Michael Bloomberg, who is considered a serious candidate in part because he has serious money. But if you've watched the debates, you may have noticed something: the average age of the candidates on the stage is 64. The average age of those still in the race but not on the stage is 56.
That's a problem. According to Pew, 33% of the electorate in 2020 will be non-white. Twenty-seven percent will be Millennials. Millennials have kind of had it with Boomers. It's not enough to count on anybody-but-Trump sentiment carrying the day. Ask HRC how that worked out. Disaffected voters don't turn out. They will even vote for the opponent, as did one in ten Sanders voters in 2016.Pair up.
Andrew Yang speaks with former Vice President Joe Biden during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.I know, I know, Bernie and AOC have been making goo-goo eyes at each other all night long across the room, and AOC has her own ride—in the form of a formidable fundraising and social media machine. He's old, she's young He's white, she's Latina. He's a he, she's a she.
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