Posted on 07/19/2019 9:37:20 AM PDT by detective
Former Rep. John Delaney (Md.) is denying a report that his campaign staff asked him to drop out of the Democratic presidential primary.
A report in Axios on Friday morning said Delaney's senior team sat down with him on July 9 and told him to drop out of the race by mid-August.
The outlet also reported that Delaney, who was the first Democratic candidate to announce a campaign, 721 days ago, has spent $19 million on the campaign trail.
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I hope he stays in the race and wastes more time and money. He has wasted $19 million so far. He can waste a lot more.
John, don’t quit.
Keep campaigning!
America needs you!
We need him.and Marianne Williamson to make the race interesting. Based in recent polls, these two may be ahead of Beto. Hang in there
721 days and $19,000,000 and zero results. Definitely time to quit
It is as if Obama and Clinton never used that word.
Who?
This should be like if you ‘storm’ into the bosses office and tell him you are quitting ‘In the middle of August’, chances are you will be escorted back to your desk to get your hat and gloves and be escorted from the premises with YOUR stuff to be shipped to you.
No sense letting someone hang around for a month to just draw pay and ‘steal’ clients etc...
They must figure he will tap out ALL existing money raising opportunities by mid August.
Sounds like somebody wants to go to the beach for a couple weeks instead of campaigning.
Where the hell did Delaney come up with $19 MM?
There is a guy named Delaney running? Who knew?
$19 Million Dollars later, and the public still doesn’t know who you are, nor to they seem to care.
You’re still not making news, pro or con.
Your staff doesn’t want to hitch their wagon to a dead horse.
Same prospect goes double for Julian Castro and Cory Booker.
Heh... IOW, the reports are true. The odd thing is, most people reading the reports said, "John who? Running for what?"
“if you ‘storm’ into the bosses office and tell him you are quitting ‘In the middle of August’, chances are you will be escorted back to your desk to get your hat and gloves and be escorted from the premises with YOUR stuff to be shipped to you.
No sense letting someone hang around for a month to just draw pay and ‘steal’ clients etc”
It sounds like his entire staff, or at least all the senior members of his staff, told him to quit.
I suspect a good number of the staffers for these clearly lost causes, especially the staffers not fresh out of college, get attracted to the campaigns by contracts guaranteeing x amount for y months of effort, but if the candidate drops out early the staffers gets the whole amount. Them they can join another campaign and double dip. Probably a savvy staffer can pull it off three or four times. The staffers can't quit, or they will lose out on their contract payouts but they had no expectations of sticking around with a loser until next November. Also, as campaigns coalesce and build out, staffers new to campaigns have to take whatever is available rather than what they want. Want to be a policy analyst or speechwriter? Sorry, all we have is call center staff right now, take it or leave it.
He spent $19 million and nobody knows who he is.
thats exactly what i am thinking - what did he spend the money on? I am wondering if $4M or so managed to get to a slush fund somewhere
Didn’t Beto zero out in a recent poll?
There is a guy named Delaney running? Who knew?
I didn’t until this post, and I still don’t care.
Yes I think Beto was at zero recently. His skateboard and jumping on tables schtick has worn thin.
assuming that there’s any part of this rumorat all that is true, most likely what happened is that his staff told him he’s out of money, no donations are coming in, he’s polling around zero, and perhaps there’s no real point for him to continue ...
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