Posted on 11/12/2017 11:47:17 PM PST by LibWhacker
Terry McAuliffe for President 2020?
Tuesdays Virginia election reignites talk of McAuliffe 2020 Presidential Bid: Lets Talk After I Get Out of Here
There has long been a lot of buzz about Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (D) running for president in 2020. In the wake of Tuesdays strong showing for Democrats in Virginia, McAuliffes potential for a presidential bid in 2020 has improved.
In an interview with MSNBCs Al Sharpton in which Sharpton asked about his 2020 plans, McAuliffe said lets talk after I get out of here.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has been stuck at the bottom of all the 2020 presidential polls, saw his political stock soar last week when his party scored huge election victories, cementing his legacy and giving him a platform to run on.
Certainly Tuesday night was a triumph for McAuliffe, who looks like a potential if not likely presidential contender. His pitch is simple: We took on Trump in Virginia and won, said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the University of Virginias Center for Politics Sabato Crystal Ball.
While an anti-Trump wave certainly helped Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam succeed McAuliffe, several insiders credit the governor with restoring a broken party organization and keeping many of his promises for the big win.
I think he can make just as compelling a case as anybody at this point. He was consistently a popular governor, he followed through on a lot of his promises, he found a way to work with an overwhelmingly Republican General Assembly where he could and did battle when he needed to, said one-time aide Mo Elleithee, the director of Georgetown Universitys Institute of Politics and Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy.
Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, added that in his polls, McAuliffe has remained popular and Virginians feel far better about their economy than the rest of the nation.
Thats got to be good for any governor, said Kidd, who added that he expects McAuliffe to run in 2020.
On MSNBC this morning, Sharpton asked McAuliffe for a yes or no answer to the question of whether he plans to run for president in 2020.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
McAuliffe was interviewed by Al Sharpton in the wake of a successful election night for Democrats on Tuesday.
Democratic candidate Ralph Northam handily won the race to succeed him as governor. In addition to sweeps of the Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor races, the party made what McAuliffe called historic gains in the Virginia House of Delegates.
After McAuliffe asserted voters in Virginia had shown they were rejecting President Donald Trumps agenda, Sharpton brought him up as a possible challenger to Trump in four years.
Yes or no answer, because Im out of time. You mention that Northam won, hes succeeding you, Sharpton said. Will we see McAuliffe in 2020 on the list of possible Democratic candidates for president? Yes or no?
Reverend, Im going to finish this job strong. Lets talk after I get out of here, McAuliffe said. People are paying me to be governor, and thats what Im doing.
That was not a no, Sharpton said.
2016 showed them that without a white guy on the top they lose too many states. Obama was treated as a white guy because he’d read the teleprompter words typed by white guys; he did nothing for blacks.
“Turns my stomach”
Yeh, talk about a cast of thieves, McAuliffe, Sharpton are it...
Wrong color, gender and sexuality (that we know of). He had no chance in a Democrat primary.
“Growing The Swamp Together.”
Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe for President 2020?
McAwful lies about 10 times more/better than Hillary and she set a high bar.
VOTE FOR CLINTON / McCAULIFFE IN 2020PUT THE SLEAZE BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE IT BELONGS !
He would make a lot better candidate than the mean ol’ lady.
They ran Hillary & she lost. Now they want to go for it again?
God help us, if that lowlife dirtbag criminal McAuliffe gets into the WH.
The truly sad part is that they’re both electable in up to 30-35%+ of America.
Sure, why not? A Clinton puppet 100%.
They will work nonstop to make sure Terry can continue the Clinton legacy of graft and corruption.
As an aside, I noticed no one questioned whether there was voter fraud in last weeks Virginia election.
A Clinton puppet.
Let ‘im run, with Kamala Harris as VP candidate. I think Trump would win in a rout.
We’ve already lost VA and CA so it’s no great loss. Neither candidate could win dog catcher in any red state.
The real danger is that the Democrats will get smart and run some red-state statewide office holders and poach away enough EVs to eke out a victory in the EC that they loathe so much. It would be funny if they won the EC and lost the popular vote, but I’d rather not have that particular laugh. Victory is much better!
There were reasons he was known as McAwful!
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