ABC NEWS
"Buttigieg heckled by homophobic protesters; O'Rourke stands up for fellow candidate"
4 MAY 2019
Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was heckled by protesters at an event in Texas Friday night, but one of his fellow Democratic challengers was happy to immediately come to his defense.
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was speaking at the Dallas County Democratic Party's Johnson Jordan Dinner Friday when he was interrupted on several occasions by anti-gay remarks.
The protesters yelled, "Marriage is between a man and a woman," and, "Repent," according to CNN reporter DJ Judd, who was in the audience.
Judd also filmed footage of a woman being ushered out of the venue for making anti-abortion comments.
Buttigieg came out as gay just four years ago, at 33 years old, in an op-ed for the South Bend Tribune.
He married his boyfriend, Chasten, in June 2018.
He is the first gay Democratic presidential candidate in history.
Buttigieg has periodically been heckled on the campaign trail, including at an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in mid-April.
Fellow presidential candidate, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, quickly came to his opponent's defense on Twitter.
"Texans don’t stand for this kind of homophobia and hatred," O'Rourke wrote.
"Mayor Pete, we are grateful you came to Texas and hope to see you and Chasten back again soon."
O'Rourke was also in Texas on Friday night, speaking at an outdoor event in downtown Fort Worth, just a half hour west of Buttigieg's event in Dallas.
"This moment of maximum peril in our country's history could become the moment of maximum promise if we're willing to see it through," O'Rourke told the assembled audience.
Texas, once regarded as a magnet for conservative candidates, has seen an influx of Democratic presidential contenders stumping in the state.
Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Fort Worth last week and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro will also be in the city this weekend.
The protesters' comments at Buttigieg's event echoed those of Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, an evangelist who was a spiritual adviser to a dozen presidents, both Republican and Democrat.
Billy Graham died last year.
Franklin Graham tweeted on April 24, "Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian."
"As a Christian, I believe the Bible which defines homosexuality as a sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized."
"The Bible says marriage is between a man & a woman – not two men, not two women."
The 37-year-old Buttigieg was largely unknown nationally before launching an exploratory committee earlier this year and officially beginning his presidential campaign last month.
The candidate has emerged as a serious contender early in the race, though.
The most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll from late April showed Buttigieg in third place among a very crowded field.
He ranked at 5%, behind former Vice President Joe Biden (17%) and Sanders (11%).
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Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
AS A DECORATED VIET NAM COMBAT VETERAN WHO WAS AN ENLISTEE, I THINK MAYOR PETE IS TALKING LIKE A FOOL HERE …
HE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT PRE-INDUCTION PHYSICALS INTENDED TO EXPOSE MALINGERERS AND INJURY FAKERS …
AND MAYOR PETE TRYING TO LIE TO US IS THE REAL ASSAULT ON THE HONOR OF THIS COUNTRY …
BESIDES BEING QUITE INSULTING ...
And so ...
POLITICO
"Buttigieg: Trump’s fake injury ‘an assault on the honor of this country’"
By Bianca Quilantan
26 MAY 2019
Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“You have somebody who thinks it's all right to let somebody go in his place into a deadly war, and is willing to pretend to be disabled in order to do it,” he said.
“That is an assault on the honor of this country.”
Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, first accused Trump of using his “privileged status to fake a disability” on Thursday in an hourlong interview with The Washington Post.
Trump was exempted from military service five times at the height of the Vietnam War.
He received four draft deferments for his time in college and one medical deferment for having bone spurs.
In testimony before Congress, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said of the medical deferment: “Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none.“
He also criticized the Trump administration's decision to send more than 1,500 military personnel in an effort to deter Iran.
Buttigieg told Raddatz "escalation is the last thing we need in the Middle East right now."
Referring to his own military experience, Buttigieg slammed Trump’s consideration of granting pardons for some service members who have either been accused or convicted of war crimes.
One of those who has been mentioned for a possible pardon is a former Navy SEAL named Eddie Gallagher, who stands accused of murdering an ISIS prisoner and indiscriminately shooting at civilians.
"The idea that being sent to war turns you into a murderer is exactly the kind of thing that those of us who have served have been trying to beat back for more than a generation," Buttigieg said.
"For a president, especially a president who never served, to say he's going to come in and overrule that system of military justice undermines the very foundations, legal and moral, of this country," he said.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... P17#page=2
HE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT PRE-INDUCTION PHYSICALS INTENDED TO EXPOSE MALINGERERS AND INJURY FAKERS …
AND MAYOR PETE TRYING TO LIE TO US IS THE REAL ASSAULT ON THE HONOR OF THIS COUNTRY …
BESIDES BEING QUITE INSULTING ...
And so ...
POLITICO
"Buttigieg: Trump’s fake injury ‘an assault on the honor of this country’"
By Bianca Quilantan
26 MAY 2019
Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“You have somebody who thinks it's all right to let somebody go in his place into a deadly war, and is willing to pretend to be disabled in order to do it,” he said.
“That is an assault on the honor of this country.”
Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, first accused Trump of using his “privileged status to fake a disability” on Thursday in an hourlong interview with The Washington Post.
Trump was exempted from military service five times at the height of the Vietnam War.
He received four draft deferments for his time in college and one medical deferment for having bone spurs.
In testimony before Congress, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said of the medical deferment: “Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none.“
He also criticized the Trump administration's decision to send more than 1,500 military personnel in an effort to deter Iran.
Buttigieg told Raddatz "escalation is the last thing we need in the Middle East right now."
Referring to his own military experience, Buttigieg slammed Trump’s consideration of granting pardons for some service members who have either been accused or convicted of war crimes.
One of those who has been mentioned for a possible pardon is a former Navy SEAL named Eddie Gallagher, who stands accused of murdering an ISIS prisoner and indiscriminately shooting at civilians.
"The idea that being sent to war turns you into a murderer is exactly the kind of thing that those of us who have served have been trying to beat back for more than a generation," Buttigieg said.
"For a president, especially a president who never served, to say he's going to come in and overrule that system of military justice undermines the very foundations, legal and moral, of this country," he said.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... P17#page=2
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TIME
"Several More 2020 Democrats Just Called for Impeachment Proceedings to Begin"
Madeline Fitzgerald
31 MAY 2019
As he closed his investigation on Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller alluded to impeachment, noting that the Constitution spells out a process to “formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing.”
Several Democratic presidential candidates took it from there, saying for the first time that the House should begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
In tweets and remarks to the press on Wednesday, California Sen. Kamala Harris; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker; New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand; Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro called for impeachment proceedings to start.
They joined Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who first called for impeachment proceedings to begin in late April.
Of the Democratic 2020 candidates, only Moulton could vote to begin impeachment proceedings, while Harris, Booker, Gillibrand and Warren would be part of the Senate trial if the House moved to impeach Trump.
The candidates generally agreed that Mueller’s 448-page report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by the White House amounted to an “impeachment referral.”
Not all 2020 candidates agreed.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee stated that Trump and Attorney General William Barr “lied about the Mueller report,” but did not call for impeachment proceedings to begin.
Former Vice President Joe Biden released a statement which said that Congress must continue to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The statement added that “impeachment may be unavoidable” but did not explicitly call for proceedings to begin.
For his part, Mueller was careful not to endorse or caution against impeachment.
In his eight-minute remarks, the former FBI director said that his team found “insufficient evidence” that any Americans conspired with Russia to interfere in the elections, that they could not charge a sitting president with a crime under Department of Justice precedent and that they would have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice if they could have.
“As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” he said.
Voting to begin impeachment proceedings does not guarantee that the House would ultimately vote to impeach Trump, and it would take a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate to convict and remove him from office.
No president in U.S. history has ever been removed from office by impeachment, with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton winning Senate trials, and Richard Nixon resigning before he was impeached.
Here’s what the 2020 candidates said about impeachment proceedings.
Warren: ‘It is an impeachment referral’
Harris: ‘We need to start impeachment proceedings’
Booker: ‘Congress has a legal and moral obligation’
Gillibrand: ‘We can’t let the president defy basic accountability’
Moulton: ‘Impeachment hearings should begin tomorrow’
Castro: ‘No one is above the law’
O’Rourke: ‘There must be consequences, accountability, and justice’
Inslee: ‘Trump lied about the Mueller report’
Sanders: ‘Congress Must Continue Its Investigations’
Klobuchar: ‘Impeachment Proceedings Are One Way to Investigate’
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... id=HPDHP17
"Several More 2020 Democrats Just Called for Impeachment Proceedings to Begin"
Madeline Fitzgerald
31 MAY 2019
As he closed his investigation on Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller alluded to impeachment, noting that the Constitution spells out a process to “formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing.”
Several Democratic presidential candidates took it from there, saying for the first time that the House should begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
In tweets and remarks to the press on Wednesday, California Sen. Kamala Harris; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker; New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand; Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro called for impeachment proceedings to start.
They joined Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who first called for impeachment proceedings to begin in late April.
Of the Democratic 2020 candidates, only Moulton could vote to begin impeachment proceedings, while Harris, Booker, Gillibrand and Warren would be part of the Senate trial if the House moved to impeach Trump.
The candidates generally agreed that Mueller’s 448-page report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by the White House amounted to an “impeachment referral.”
Not all 2020 candidates agreed.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee stated that Trump and Attorney General William Barr “lied about the Mueller report,” but did not call for impeachment proceedings to begin.
Former Vice President Joe Biden released a statement which said that Congress must continue to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The statement added that “impeachment may be unavoidable” but did not explicitly call for proceedings to begin.
For his part, Mueller was careful not to endorse or caution against impeachment.
In his eight-minute remarks, the former FBI director said that his team found “insufficient evidence” that any Americans conspired with Russia to interfere in the elections, that they could not charge a sitting president with a crime under Department of Justice precedent and that they would have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice if they could have.
“As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” he said.
Voting to begin impeachment proceedings does not guarantee that the House would ultimately vote to impeach Trump, and it would take a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate to convict and remove him from office.
No president in U.S. history has ever been removed from office by impeachment, with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton winning Senate trials, and Richard Nixon resigning before he was impeached.
Here’s what the 2020 candidates said about impeachment proceedings.
Warren: ‘It is an impeachment referral’
Harris: ‘We need to start impeachment proceedings’
Booker: ‘Congress has a legal and moral obligation’
Gillibrand: ‘We can’t let the president defy basic accountability’
Moulton: ‘Impeachment hearings should begin tomorrow’
Castro: ‘No one is above the law’
O’Rourke: ‘There must be consequences, accountability, and justice’
Inslee: ‘Trump lied about the Mueller report’
Sanders: ‘Congress Must Continue Its Investigations’
Klobuchar: ‘Impeachment Proceedings Are One Way to Investigate’
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Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR June 2, 2019 at 12:42 pm
Paul Plante says:
For the record, this “Mayor Pete” who worships at the alter of the Democrat demigod and convicted felon Michael Cohen is not at all surprisingly a Democrat candidate for United States president as well as a so-called “intelligence” officer in the United States Navy, and God help the nation if someone as ignorant as he should end up in the White House as our “leader.”
What a sad day for the nation that would be, for sure, which takes us back to the above POLITICO article entitled “Buttigieg: Trump’s fake injury ‘an assault on the honor of this country’” by Bianca Quilantan on 26 May 2019, where we had the following mouthfuls of drivel from Democrat Mayor Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who would look a lot like Rocky the Flying Squirrel if he were to climb up into the turret of a tank and put on a tanker’s helmet for a photo-op, to wit:
Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, first accused Trump of using his “privileged status to fake a disability” on Thursday in an hourlong interview with The Washington Post.
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Quite obviously, Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who comes across as an intellectual lightweight in the above, is quite unfamiliar with the classifications of the United States of America Military Draft, and a classification of 4-F, which is what Trump had.
For those unaware of draft classifications, 4-F is a classification given to a new U.S. military registrant indicating that he or she is “not acceptable for service in the Armed Forces” due to medical, dental, or other reasons.
It doesn’t say someone is disabled, as “Mayor Pete,” the twerp, is trying to tell us, and did succeed in telling the Washington Post, which wouldn’t know any better, along with ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” who also would be clueless.
According to the Selective Service System, and my goodness, you would think some hot-shot Navy “intelligence” officer like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg would be right on top of this, running for office of Commander-in-Chief as he is doing, 4-f means as follows:
“Registrant not acceptable for military service.”
“To be eligible for Class 4-F, a registrant must have been found not qualified for service in the Armed Forces by a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) under the established physical, mental, or moral standards.”
“The standards of physical fitness that would be used in a future draft would come from AR 40-501.”
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So what is this horse**** this Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is trying to feed us here about Trump using his “privileged status to fake a disability?”
Is Mayor Pete stating or implying that Trump had so much political clout that he was able to buy off an Armed Forces Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)?
Is Mayor Pete accusing the military of corruption?
It certainly seems so with his accusations of Trump, which in turn have to be accusations against the military itself, which is serious business, especially for someone running for the office of United States president.
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Paul Plante says:
For the record, this “Mayor Pete” who worships at the alter of the Democrat demigod and convicted felon Michael Cohen is not at all surprisingly a Democrat candidate for United States president as well as a so-called “intelligence” officer in the United States Navy, and God help the nation if someone as ignorant as he should end up in the White House as our “leader.”
What a sad day for the nation that would be, for sure, which takes us back to the above POLITICO article entitled “Buttigieg: Trump’s fake injury ‘an assault on the honor of this country’” by Bianca Quilantan on 26 May 2019, where we had the following mouthfuls of drivel from Democrat Mayor Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who would look a lot like Rocky the Flying Squirrel if he were to climb up into the turret of a tank and put on a tanker’s helmet for a photo-op, to wit:
Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
Buttigieg, who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, first accused Trump of using his “privileged status to fake a disability” on Thursday in an hourlong interview with The Washington Post.
end quotes
Quite obviously, Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who comes across as an intellectual lightweight in the above, is quite unfamiliar with the classifications of the United States of America Military Draft, and a classification of 4-F, which is what Trump had.
For those unaware of draft classifications, 4-F is a classification given to a new U.S. military registrant indicating that he or she is “not acceptable for service in the Armed Forces” due to medical, dental, or other reasons.
It doesn’t say someone is disabled, as “Mayor Pete,” the twerp, is trying to tell us, and did succeed in telling the Washington Post, which wouldn’t know any better, along with ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” who also would be clueless.
According to the Selective Service System, and my goodness, you would think some hot-shot Navy “intelligence” officer like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg would be right on top of this, running for office of Commander-in-Chief as he is doing, 4-f means as follows:
“Registrant not acceptable for military service.”
“To be eligible for Class 4-F, a registrant must have been found not qualified for service in the Armed Forces by a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) under the established physical, mental, or moral standards.”
“The standards of physical fitness that would be used in a future draft would come from AR 40-501.”
end quotes
So what is this horse**** this Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is trying to feed us here about Trump using his “privileged status to fake a disability?”
Is Mayor Pete stating or implying that Trump had so much political clout that he was able to buy off an Armed Forces Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)?
Is Mayor Pete accusing the military of corruption?
It certainly seems so with his accusations of Trump, which in turn have to be accusations against the military itself, which is serious business, especially for someone running for the office of United States president.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-151173
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR June 2, 2019 at 5:43 pm
Paul Plante says:
Someone running as a Democrat for the office of United States president like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, known on the campaign trail as “Mayor Pete, who makes serious charges of corruption against a sitting American president based incredibly and solely on the word of a convicted liar and felon named Michael Cohen as his only evidence, which is about as morally low as someone can possibly get, putting the word of a convicted felon before that of the United States president, and then openly lies to the American people when he says “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, when he has absolutely no evidence whatsoever in his possession to back up those scurrilous charges, does not deserve to serve the American people as president because he is totally unfit to be president, showing his lack of moral character here by his reliance on the convicted felon and liar Michael Cohen, which is as follows, to wit:
In testimony before Congress, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said of the medical deferment: “Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none.“
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Give me a break here, people!
First of all, the convicted liar and Buttigieg hero Michael Cohen was born on August 25, 1966, so during the time period in question, Michael Cohen was but a child in short pants, getting himself apparently very poorly potty-trained, based on how he turned out, so what testimony he can give anyone concerning that period of time has to be highly questionable.
And secondly, as I recall the relationship, Cohen worked for Trump and not the other way around, so why on earth does United States presidential candidate and alleged Navy “intelligence” officer Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg think that Trump had any kind of duty to explain his 4-f status to Michael Cohen decades after the Viet Nam was over and forgotten about?
Did Trump have a 4-f draft status?
Or didn’t he?
That is a yes or no question, Mayor Pete, which brings us to this further spew of ignorant drivel from Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, as follows:
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
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And Mayor Pete, I personally am a very reasonable observer, and in my mind, you are full of ****!
There is every question, Mayor Pete, to this and I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving, because there is no EVIDENCE, outside the word of a convicted liar and felon that you put all your faith and trust in, and in the America I wore a uniform to defend, we do not bring serious charges against the president of the United States based on NO EVIDENCE, and as a presidential candidate, Mayor Pete, you should not have to be reminded of that fact.
You say, Mayor Pete, solely based on the word of Michael Cohen that there is no question that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving!”
WELL PROVE IT!
Or withdraw your false charges!
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Paul Plante says:
Someone running as a Democrat for the office of United States president like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, known on the campaign trail as “Mayor Pete, who makes serious charges of corruption against a sitting American president based incredibly and solely on the word of a convicted liar and felon named Michael Cohen as his only evidence, which is about as morally low as someone can possibly get, putting the word of a convicted felon before that of the United States president, and then openly lies to the American people when he says “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, when he has absolutely no evidence whatsoever in his possession to back up those scurrilous charges, does not deserve to serve the American people as president because he is totally unfit to be president, showing his lack of moral character here by his reliance on the convicted felon and liar Michael Cohen, which is as follows, to wit:
In testimony before Congress, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said of the medical deferment: “Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none.“
end quotes
Give me a break here, people!
First of all, the convicted liar and Buttigieg hero Michael Cohen was born on August 25, 1966, so during the time period in question, Michael Cohen was but a child in short pants, getting himself apparently very poorly potty-trained, based on how he turned out, so what testimony he can give anyone concerning that period of time has to be highly questionable.
And secondly, as I recall the relationship, Cohen worked for Trump and not the other way around, so why on earth does United States presidential candidate and alleged Navy “intelligence” officer Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg think that Trump had any kind of duty to explain his 4-f status to Michael Cohen decades after the Viet Nam was over and forgotten about?
Did Trump have a 4-f draft status?
Or didn’t he?
That is a yes or no question, Mayor Pete, which brings us to this further spew of ignorant drivel from Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, as follows:
“There is no question, I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” the mayor of South Bend (Ind.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
end quotes
And Mayor Pete, I personally am a very reasonable observer, and in my mind, you are full of ****!
There is every question, Mayor Pete, to this and I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving, because there is no EVIDENCE, outside the word of a convicted liar and felon that you put all your faith and trust in, and in the America I wore a uniform to defend, we do not bring serious charges against the president of the United States based on NO EVIDENCE, and as a presidential candidate, Mayor Pete, you should not have to be reminded of that fact.
You say, Mayor Pete, solely based on the word of Michael Cohen that there is no question that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving!”
WELL PROVE IT!
Or withdraw your false charges!
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BLOOMBERG
"Harris Rips Trump as Warren Jabs Biden at California Summit"
Jeffrey Taylor, Sahil Kapur and Emma Kinery
2 JUNE 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Senator Kamala Harris used her home state’s Democratic convention to deliver one of her sharpest critiques to date of President Donald Trump’s policies and performance in office.
“We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander-in-chief,” Harris said Saturday to thunderous applause.
“We’ve seen how this president has lied to divide."
"It’s a pathological failure of leadership.”
Harris was the first of 14 Democratic presidential hopefuls who converged on San Francisco this weekend to speak at the California Democratic Party convention.
All the front-runners except former Vice President Joe Biden, and some of the also-rans, are taking part in the biggest single gathering of candidates so far, seeking an advantage in a state set to play a pivotal role early in the 2020 race.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts drew roars and stole some of Harris’s thunder as she outlined her transformative platform and vowed not to settle for incremental change.
‘Moral Clarity’
“When I lead the Democratic Party, we will be a party of moral clarity, a party of courage, and a party with a backbone,” she said, touting her plans for a wealth tax on ultra-millionaires, universal child care, and to cancel student debt.
“The rich and powerful aren’t giving up anything without a fight.”
California is the biggest single prize in the party’s race to the nomination, and it’s taken on added significance for 2020.
The state moved its primary to the Super Tuesday round of voting on March 3, joining at least 13 other states after votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
In 2016, the California primary was held in June.
The state’s prominence gives it special significance for Harris.
A home-state win could vault her into front-runner status, while a poor showing could be a devastating blow.
Warren, former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, among other candidates, followed Harris onto the podium early Saturday.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was scheduled to speak on Sunday.
Distracting Tweets
Harris said Trump is “deregulating and deconstructing our government and our democracy’’ while distracting the country with inflammatory tweets and demands for a border wall with Mexico.
With each candidate limited to seven minutes on stage -- a form of political speed-dating -- Harris called on Democratic activists to join the campaign against Trump, which she called “a fight for truth itself.’’
Harris also tore into Trump’s trade fight with China and his threat to impose escalating tariffs on Mexico if it won’t halt the flow of undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border, saying the moves hurt regular Americans.
“I like to call it Trump’s trade tax,’’ she said.
“His trade tax is taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month.”
Warren, meanwhile, delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Biden, who was in Ohio to speak at a dinner being held by Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S.
Tweaks, Nudges
“Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges," Warren said.
“If they dream at all, they dream small."
"Some say if we’d all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses."
"But our country is in a time of crisis."
"The time for small ideas is over.”
Warren appeared to be responding to Biden’s prediction last month in New Hampshire that once Trump leaves office, Republicans will experience an “epiphany” and work with Democrats toward a legislative consensus.
“The thing that will fundamentally change with Donald Trump out of the White House, not a joke, is you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends,” Biden said.
The comment was mocked by many liberals.
Biden skipped the convention and instead spoke Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio, at a dinner held by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S.
The former vice president called for enacting the Equality Act to ban discrimination in workplaces -- saying it would be the first thing he’d ask to be done if elected -- and criticized policies by Trump and his administration involving LGBTQ individuals.
“Instead of using the full might of the executive branch to ensure justice, dignity, safety for all, this president, this White House, has -- literally, literally a bully pulpit -- has callously extended his power over the most vulnerable,’’ Biden said.
“It’s wrong, and it is amoral what they’re doing."
‘Grassroots Effort’
O’Rourke, from the Texas border city of El Paso, began his remarks in Spanish.
He touted his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, which came within 3 percentage points of defeating incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, and took credit for the Democratic mobilization that helped them wrest multiple GOP House seats.
“I led the largest grassroots effort in the history of the state,” he said.
Hickenlooper, meanwhile, was booed when he said, as he has elsewhere previously, that “socialism is not the answer.”
As the boos cascaded through the hall for almost a full minute, Hickenlooper broke from his prepared remarks to ad lib, "If we’re not careful, we’re going to wind up reelecting the worst president in the history of the United States."
‘No Going Back’
Buttigieg also appeared to be aiming jabs at the absent Biden.
Trump “wins if we look too much like Washington,” he said.
“He wins if we look like more of the same."
"Which means that the riskiest thing we could do is try to play it safe."
"There’s no going back to normal right now.”
Booker decried gun violence including the latest mass shooting in the U.S., in which 12 people were killed Friday in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“It is time for us as a nation not to normalize the violence and the carnage of gun violence,” he said.
“It is time that we come together and stand together and take a fight to” the National Rifle Association.
In an interview Friday on Spanish-language program “Noticias Telemundo,” Harris said that if elected, she would end funding for private detention centers, which she said profit from people’s incarceration.
Private prisons, said Harris, “are creating conditions that are unlivable and immoral for the people who are in those detention facilities."
"We recently had six children who have died in custody and that has to end.”
MoveOn Forum
Many of the Democrats also appeared Saturday at a policy forum in San Francisco for MoveOn, the progressive advocacy organization.
“Let me be absolutely clear."
"With the Trump administration sending 10,000 troops to confront Iran, I will do everything in my power to stop that war,” Sanders said at the MoveOn forum.
Activists at the convention distributed anti-Biden fliers, featuring quotes in which Biden praised Vice President Mike Pence and defended billionaires.
Meanwhile, calls of “impeach” rang out in the hall as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat whose district is in San Francisco, recounted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s refusal to exonerate Trump from criminal culpability.
“I told you this was like coming home for me,’’ Pelosi said in response.
--With assistance from Tyler Pager and Mark Niquette.
To contact the reporters on this story: Jeffrey Taylor in San Francisco at jtaylor48@bloomberg.net;Sahil Kapur in Washington at skapur39@bloomberg.net;Emma Kinery in Washington at ekinery@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Steve Geimann, Ros Krasny
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"Harris Rips Trump as Warren Jabs Biden at California Summit"
Jeffrey Taylor, Sahil Kapur and Emma Kinery
2 JUNE 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Senator Kamala Harris used her home state’s Democratic convention to deliver one of her sharpest critiques to date of President Donald Trump’s policies and performance in office.
“We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander-in-chief,” Harris said Saturday to thunderous applause.
“We’ve seen how this president has lied to divide."
"It’s a pathological failure of leadership.”
Harris was the first of 14 Democratic presidential hopefuls who converged on San Francisco this weekend to speak at the California Democratic Party convention.
All the front-runners except former Vice President Joe Biden, and some of the also-rans, are taking part in the biggest single gathering of candidates so far, seeking an advantage in a state set to play a pivotal role early in the 2020 race.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts drew roars and stole some of Harris’s thunder as she outlined her transformative platform and vowed not to settle for incremental change.
‘Moral Clarity’
“When I lead the Democratic Party, we will be a party of moral clarity, a party of courage, and a party with a backbone,” she said, touting her plans for a wealth tax on ultra-millionaires, universal child care, and to cancel student debt.
“The rich and powerful aren’t giving up anything without a fight.”
California is the biggest single prize in the party’s race to the nomination, and it’s taken on added significance for 2020.
The state moved its primary to the Super Tuesday round of voting on March 3, joining at least 13 other states after votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
In 2016, the California primary was held in June.
The state’s prominence gives it special significance for Harris.
A home-state win could vault her into front-runner status, while a poor showing could be a devastating blow.
Warren, former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, among other candidates, followed Harris onto the podium early Saturday.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was scheduled to speak on Sunday.
Distracting Tweets
Harris said Trump is “deregulating and deconstructing our government and our democracy’’ while distracting the country with inflammatory tweets and demands for a border wall with Mexico.
With each candidate limited to seven minutes on stage -- a form of political speed-dating -- Harris called on Democratic activists to join the campaign against Trump, which she called “a fight for truth itself.’’
Harris also tore into Trump’s trade fight with China and his threat to impose escalating tariffs on Mexico if it won’t halt the flow of undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border, saying the moves hurt regular Americans.
“I like to call it Trump’s trade tax,’’ she said.
“His trade tax is taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month.”
Warren, meanwhile, delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Biden, who was in Ohio to speak at a dinner being held by Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S.
Tweaks, Nudges
“Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges," Warren said.
“If they dream at all, they dream small."
"Some say if we’d all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses."
"But our country is in a time of crisis."
"The time for small ideas is over.”
Warren appeared to be responding to Biden’s prediction last month in New Hampshire that once Trump leaves office, Republicans will experience an “epiphany” and work with Democrats toward a legislative consensus.
“The thing that will fundamentally change with Donald Trump out of the White House, not a joke, is you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends,” Biden said.
The comment was mocked by many liberals.
Biden skipped the convention and instead spoke Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio, at a dinner held by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S.
The former vice president called for enacting the Equality Act to ban discrimination in workplaces -- saying it would be the first thing he’d ask to be done if elected -- and criticized policies by Trump and his administration involving LGBTQ individuals.
“Instead of using the full might of the executive branch to ensure justice, dignity, safety for all, this president, this White House, has -- literally, literally a bully pulpit -- has callously extended his power over the most vulnerable,’’ Biden said.
“It’s wrong, and it is amoral what they’re doing."
‘Grassroots Effort’
O’Rourke, from the Texas border city of El Paso, began his remarks in Spanish.
He touted his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, which came within 3 percentage points of defeating incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, and took credit for the Democratic mobilization that helped them wrest multiple GOP House seats.
“I led the largest grassroots effort in the history of the state,” he said.
Hickenlooper, meanwhile, was booed when he said, as he has elsewhere previously, that “socialism is not the answer.”
As the boos cascaded through the hall for almost a full minute, Hickenlooper broke from his prepared remarks to ad lib, "If we’re not careful, we’re going to wind up reelecting the worst president in the history of the United States."
‘No Going Back’
Buttigieg also appeared to be aiming jabs at the absent Biden.
Trump “wins if we look too much like Washington,” he said.
“He wins if we look like more of the same."
"Which means that the riskiest thing we could do is try to play it safe."
"There’s no going back to normal right now.”
Booker decried gun violence including the latest mass shooting in the U.S., in which 12 people were killed Friday in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“It is time for us as a nation not to normalize the violence and the carnage of gun violence,” he said.
“It is time that we come together and stand together and take a fight to” the National Rifle Association.
In an interview Friday on Spanish-language program “Noticias Telemundo,” Harris said that if elected, she would end funding for private detention centers, which she said profit from people’s incarceration.
Private prisons, said Harris, “are creating conditions that are unlivable and immoral for the people who are in those detention facilities."
"We recently had six children who have died in custody and that has to end.”
MoveOn Forum
Many of the Democrats also appeared Saturday at a policy forum in San Francisco for MoveOn, the progressive advocacy organization.
“Let me be absolutely clear."
"With the Trump administration sending 10,000 troops to confront Iran, I will do everything in my power to stop that war,” Sanders said at the MoveOn forum.
Activists at the convention distributed anti-Biden fliers, featuring quotes in which Biden praised Vice President Mike Pence and defended billionaires.
Meanwhile, calls of “impeach” rang out in the hall as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat whose district is in San Francisco, recounted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s refusal to exonerate Trump from criminal culpability.
“I told you this was like coming home for me,’’ Pelosi said in response.
--With assistance from Tyler Pager and Mark Niquette.
To contact the reporters on this story: Jeffrey Taylor in San Francisco at jtaylor48@bloomberg.net;Sahil Kapur in Washington at skapur39@bloomberg.net;Emma Kinery in Washington at ekinery@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Steve Geimann, Ros Krasny
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THE HILL
"Biden slumps, Buttigieg soars: 6 takeaways from benchmark Iowa poll"
Reid Wilson
9 JUNE 2019
Just hours before presidential candidates will pitch themselves to Iowa Democratic activists in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, a new poll of likely caucus-goers is rattling the race - and hinting that a formidable front-runner is not as invincible as he might appear.
The Iowa Poll, conducted by veteran pollster Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register and CNN, found former Vice President Joe Biden leading the Democratic field with 24 percent of the vote.
The race for second place is a statistical tie between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 16 percent; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), at 15 percent; and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 14 percent.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is the only other candidate who registers significant support.
She clocked in at 7 percent of the vote.
Six percent of voters said they were not sure who they would choose on caucus night.
Eight months before voters head to their caucus sites, though, the poll shows movement within a Democratic primary that is still wide open.
Here are six takeaways from the Iowa Poll:
Biden's support is shaky
In December, months before he even entered the race, nearly a third of Iowa voters said they backed Biden.
Today, about six weeks after he announced he would run, Biden's support has fallen by a third.
Biden's declining support came even before this week's controversy over his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, which came after Selzer began fielding her poll.
In December, 82 percent of Iowa Democratic voters said they saw Biden favorably; this month, that number is down to 72 percent of Democratic voters, a 10-point drop.
His unfavorable ratings are up nine points.
And Biden's backers are less enthusiastic about their chosen candidate than supporters of other candidates.
Just 29 percent of Biden's supporters say they are extremely enthusiastic about backing the former vice president.
An average of 43 percent of Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg supporters say they are extremely enthusiastic about backing their chosen candidate.
Sanders has a ceiling
Three years ago, Sanders came within a handful of votes of achieving a stunning upset over front-running former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Today, almost every Iowa Democrat has an opinion of Sanders; only 5 percent of likely caucus-goers say they do not know enough about him to have formed an opinion, a lower number than everyone but Biden.
But Sanders also has one of the highest unfavorable numbers among Democratic candidates; a quarter of state Democrats say they view him negatively, about the same percentage as those who see Biden unfavorably.
The dichotomy between Sanders's high name recognition and his relatively low poll numbers suggest Sanders fans from 2016 are looking elsewhere this year - and that the 77-year old self-avowed Democratic socialist has a ceiling through which he cannot break.
As Warren, Buttigieg, Harris and the others introduce themselves to voters and earn more support, they are likely to pull from a population that backed Sanders over Clinton in 2016.
The high unfavorable ratings that Sanders and Biden suffer aren't the worst in the field.
More than four in 10 Iowa Democrats see New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unfavorably.
Warren is on a growth trajectory
Selzer is considered a one of the most skilled pollsters when it comes to surveying Iowa's electorate.
What makes her especially effective is that her surveys consistently illustrate who's on the move, up or down.
And, though it is eight months before the caucuses, Warren is the candidate on the move.
She has a higher net-favorable rating of any candidate in the field; 71 percent see her favorably, while just 17 percent see her unfavorably.
That's a better ratio than Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg.
An equal number of Democratic voters, 61 percent, say they are actively considering or backing Warren and Biden, the highest rates in the field.
That's five points higher than those who say Sanders is on their ticket, and nine points higher than both Buttigieg and Harris.
Warren has been more aggressive in laying out detailed policy proposals than any other candidate.
She has hired more staffers in Iowa than any other candidate, and she has spent more time in Iowa - more than two weeks - than any other front-runner.
In terms of sheer growth, no one has improved more than Buttigieg, who wasn't even included in the December survey.
Buttigieg scored just 1 percent support in the March survey, fielded about a week before his first CNN town hall, where he captured the Democratic electorate's attention and vaulted from also-ran to top contender.
The Beto bust?
No one is in a deeper slump than former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas).
In December, a month after O'Rourke narrowly lost a spirited challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz (R), 11 percent of Iowa Democrats said he was their first choice, and another 12 percent said he would be their second choice.
In this month's poll, only 2 percent of Iowa Democrats say Beto is their first choice, an 80 percent drop.
Just four percent say he is their second choice.
The number of Iowa Democrats who say they view him unfavorably stands at 21 percent, almost double the number who said they saw him unfavorably back in December, while his favorable rating - 54 percent - is up only a single point.
O'Rourke has held 52 events over 17 days, according to a tracker maintained by the Des Moines Register, but all that hard work isn't paying off.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) haven't gained any traction either.
In Selzer's March poll, Booker and Klobuchar each claimed 3 percent of the vote; this month, Klobuchar is at 2 percent and Booker is at 1 percent, tied with the likes of former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang (D).
The best news for Booker: He's the second choice candidate for 6 percent of Iowa Democrats, a level of support that puts him in the conversation.
A tough field to poll
What's harder than keeping an Iowa voter on the phone while a pollster reads a list of all two dozen candidates running for the Democratic primary nomination?
How about accounting for the two different kinds of elections Democrats will run next February?
The Iowa Democratic Party for the first time plans to hold what they are calling virtual caucuses - events in which voters who can't attend their polling places in person on February 3 can still make their preferences known.
Party rules say those who participate in virtual caucuses will be given the power to decide 10 percent of the delegates allocated during the caucuses, regardless of how many people show up in person or by phone.
About 28 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers said they would participate in the virtual caucus, making their votes worth about a third of those who actually show up in person.
That has forced Selzer to ask Iowa Democrats not just who they plan to support, but how they plan to participate - and to weight support accordingly.
"Those who say they are likely to choose the virtual option are younger, more moderate, and more likely to be currently registered as 'no party,' which of course they must change to participate in the Democratic Party caucuses."
"They are also less committed to caucusing than those who say they intend to show up on caucus night," Selzer wrote in an explanation of her methodology.
Biden's support is higher among those who plan to caucus virtually, 33 percent, than those who plan to caucus in person, 23 percent.
Buttigieg and Sanders fans disproportionately plan to show up in person.
Warren's supporters are about evenly split, while Harris backers are more likely to say they will caucus virtually.
The new virtual caucus, meant to allow more voters to participate in the process, is likely to expand the universe of those who get to make their voices heard - and it's also going to make the process of measuring those voters all the more difficult.
Iowa Poll has clout
The Iowa Poll will be the lead story in tomorrow's Des Moines Register.
It is already playing across CNN, the poll's other top sponsor.
And it comes just as Iowa Democratic activists head to Cedar Rapids for the state party's annual Hall of Fame dinner, where 19 out of 24 presidential hopefuls will speak.
Selzer's poll will be the talk of the afternoon - so many candidates are speaking that the state party will kick off the event at 2 p.m. Central time.
And it won't go unnoticed among state Democrats that the front-runner Biden is the only top contender who won't show up to woo the activist class.
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"Biden slumps, Buttigieg soars: 6 takeaways from benchmark Iowa poll"
Reid Wilson
9 JUNE 2019
Just hours before presidential candidates will pitch themselves to Iowa Democratic activists in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, a new poll of likely caucus-goers is rattling the race - and hinting that a formidable front-runner is not as invincible as he might appear.
The Iowa Poll, conducted by veteran pollster Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register and CNN, found former Vice President Joe Biden leading the Democratic field with 24 percent of the vote.
The race for second place is a statistical tie between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 16 percent; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), at 15 percent; and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 14 percent.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is the only other candidate who registers significant support.
She clocked in at 7 percent of the vote.
Six percent of voters said they were not sure who they would choose on caucus night.
Eight months before voters head to their caucus sites, though, the poll shows movement within a Democratic primary that is still wide open.
Here are six takeaways from the Iowa Poll:
Biden's support is shaky
In December, months before he even entered the race, nearly a third of Iowa voters said they backed Biden.
Today, about six weeks after he announced he would run, Biden's support has fallen by a third.
Biden's declining support came even before this week's controversy over his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, which came after Selzer began fielding her poll.
In December, 82 percent of Iowa Democratic voters said they saw Biden favorably; this month, that number is down to 72 percent of Democratic voters, a 10-point drop.
His unfavorable ratings are up nine points.
And Biden's backers are less enthusiastic about their chosen candidate than supporters of other candidates.
Just 29 percent of Biden's supporters say they are extremely enthusiastic about backing the former vice president.
An average of 43 percent of Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg supporters say they are extremely enthusiastic about backing their chosen candidate.
Sanders has a ceiling
Three years ago, Sanders came within a handful of votes of achieving a stunning upset over front-running former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Today, almost every Iowa Democrat has an opinion of Sanders; only 5 percent of likely caucus-goers say they do not know enough about him to have formed an opinion, a lower number than everyone but Biden.
But Sanders also has one of the highest unfavorable numbers among Democratic candidates; a quarter of state Democrats say they view him negatively, about the same percentage as those who see Biden unfavorably.
The dichotomy between Sanders's high name recognition and his relatively low poll numbers suggest Sanders fans from 2016 are looking elsewhere this year - and that the 77-year old self-avowed Democratic socialist has a ceiling through which he cannot break.
As Warren, Buttigieg, Harris and the others introduce themselves to voters and earn more support, they are likely to pull from a population that backed Sanders over Clinton in 2016.
The high unfavorable ratings that Sanders and Biden suffer aren't the worst in the field.
More than four in 10 Iowa Democrats see New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unfavorably.
Warren is on a growth trajectory
Selzer is considered a one of the most skilled pollsters when it comes to surveying Iowa's electorate.
What makes her especially effective is that her surveys consistently illustrate who's on the move, up or down.
And, though it is eight months before the caucuses, Warren is the candidate on the move.
She has a higher net-favorable rating of any candidate in the field; 71 percent see her favorably, while just 17 percent see her unfavorably.
That's a better ratio than Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg.
An equal number of Democratic voters, 61 percent, say they are actively considering or backing Warren and Biden, the highest rates in the field.
That's five points higher than those who say Sanders is on their ticket, and nine points higher than both Buttigieg and Harris.
Warren has been more aggressive in laying out detailed policy proposals than any other candidate.
She has hired more staffers in Iowa than any other candidate, and she has spent more time in Iowa - more than two weeks - than any other front-runner.
In terms of sheer growth, no one has improved more than Buttigieg, who wasn't even included in the December survey.
Buttigieg scored just 1 percent support in the March survey, fielded about a week before his first CNN town hall, where he captured the Democratic electorate's attention and vaulted from also-ran to top contender.
The Beto bust?
No one is in a deeper slump than former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas).
In December, a month after O'Rourke narrowly lost a spirited challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz (R), 11 percent of Iowa Democrats said he was their first choice, and another 12 percent said he would be their second choice.
In this month's poll, only 2 percent of Iowa Democrats say Beto is their first choice, an 80 percent drop.
Just four percent say he is their second choice.
The number of Iowa Democrats who say they view him unfavorably stands at 21 percent, almost double the number who said they saw him unfavorably back in December, while his favorable rating - 54 percent - is up only a single point.
O'Rourke has held 52 events over 17 days, according to a tracker maintained by the Des Moines Register, but all that hard work isn't paying off.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) haven't gained any traction either.
In Selzer's March poll, Booker and Klobuchar each claimed 3 percent of the vote; this month, Klobuchar is at 2 percent and Booker is at 1 percent, tied with the likes of former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang (D).
The best news for Booker: He's the second choice candidate for 6 percent of Iowa Democrats, a level of support that puts him in the conversation.
A tough field to poll
What's harder than keeping an Iowa voter on the phone while a pollster reads a list of all two dozen candidates running for the Democratic primary nomination?
How about accounting for the two different kinds of elections Democrats will run next February?
The Iowa Democratic Party for the first time plans to hold what they are calling virtual caucuses - events in which voters who can't attend their polling places in person on February 3 can still make their preferences known.
Party rules say those who participate in virtual caucuses will be given the power to decide 10 percent of the delegates allocated during the caucuses, regardless of how many people show up in person or by phone.
About 28 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers said they would participate in the virtual caucus, making their votes worth about a third of those who actually show up in person.
That has forced Selzer to ask Iowa Democrats not just who they plan to support, but how they plan to participate - and to weight support accordingly.
"Those who say they are likely to choose the virtual option are younger, more moderate, and more likely to be currently registered as 'no party,' which of course they must change to participate in the Democratic Party caucuses."
"They are also less committed to caucusing than those who say they intend to show up on caucus night," Selzer wrote in an explanation of her methodology.
Biden's support is higher among those who plan to caucus virtually, 33 percent, than those who plan to caucus in person, 23 percent.
Buttigieg and Sanders fans disproportionately plan to show up in person.
Warren's supporters are about evenly split, while Harris backers are more likely to say they will caucus virtually.
The new virtual caucus, meant to allow more voters to participate in the process, is likely to expand the universe of those who get to make their voices heard - and it's also going to make the process of measuring those voters all the more difficult.
Iowa Poll has clout
The Iowa Poll will be the lead story in tomorrow's Des Moines Register.
It is already playing across CNN, the poll's other top sponsor.
And it comes just as Iowa Democratic activists head to Cedar Rapids for the state party's annual Hall of Fame dinner, where 19 out of 24 presidential hopefuls will speak.
Selzer's poll will be the talk of the afternoon - so many candidates are speaking that the state party will kick off the event at 2 p.m. Central time.
And it won't go unnoticed among state Democrats that the front-runner Biden is the only top contender who won't show up to woo the activist class.
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CNN
"Pete Buttigieg: So many Dems running 'we might as well carpool'"
By Eli Watkins, CNN
9 JUNE 2019
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Saturday that there were so many Democrats in the race, they "might as well carpool."
Buttigieg was speaking at an education-focused meet-and-greet on the back porch of a home in Des Moines, Iowa, as he and much of the nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates swarmed the state, whose caucuses top the 2020 primary calendar.
Buttigieg offered a unifying tone at the event, saying he did not view the massive field "as having opponents so much as competitors."
"You would be surprised how often we are in dialogue with each other," Buttigieg said.
"And as these cattle calls pick up we are going to get to know each other better and better."
He argued that it was important for candidates to ensure their supporters that eventually they would all want to rally around the party's nominee to challenge President Donald Trump next year.
"A day will come when we are all on the same team," Buttigieg said.
"And we got to have that solidarity, and we can plant the seeds for it right now."
On Sunday, nearly 20 of the candidates were slated to speak before Iowa Democrats in Cedar Rapids for the annual Hall of Fame dinner.
The event is expected to cap off a weekend of activity for Democrats in Iowa, including a Pride Fest forum in Des Moines on Saturday.
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"Pete Buttigieg: So many Dems running 'we might as well carpool'"
By Eli Watkins, CNN
9 JUNE 2019
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Saturday that there were so many Democrats in the race, they "might as well carpool."
Buttigieg was speaking at an education-focused meet-and-greet on the back porch of a home in Des Moines, Iowa, as he and much of the nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates swarmed the state, whose caucuses top the 2020 primary calendar.
Buttigieg offered a unifying tone at the event, saying he did not view the massive field "as having opponents so much as competitors."
"You would be surprised how often we are in dialogue with each other," Buttigieg said.
"And as these cattle calls pick up we are going to get to know each other better and better."
He argued that it was important for candidates to ensure their supporters that eventually they would all want to rally around the party's nominee to challenge President Donald Trump next year.
"A day will come when we are all on the same team," Buttigieg said.
"And we got to have that solidarity, and we can plant the seeds for it right now."
On Sunday, nearly 20 of the candidates were slated to speak before Iowa Democrats in Cedar Rapids for the annual Hall of Fame dinner.
The event is expected to cap off a weekend of activity for Democrats in Iowa, including a Pride Fest forum in Des Moines on Saturday.
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THE OBSERVER
"Kamala Harris Joins Elizabeth Warren in Threatening to Prosecute Trump"
By Davis Richardson
06/12/19 11:55am
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) became the latest Democrat to threaten President Donald Trump with prosecution.
Speaking to NPR, the 2020 hopeful said her Department of Justice “would have no choice” but to prosecute Trump, citing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks that his office was not able to indict a sitting president due to a longstanding government policy.
“I do believe that we should believe Bob Mueller when he tells us essentially that the only reason an indictment was not returned is because of a memo in the Department of Justice that suggests you cannot indict a sitting president."
"But I’ve seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence,” said Harris.
The California senator also told the publication that she became a prosecutor because she believes in accountability and that not even the president is above the law.
“On one side etched in the marble are the words ‘equal justice under law.’"
"It doesn’t say ‘except for the president,'” continued Harris.
A chorus of 2020 Democratic candidates in recent weeks have rallied around calls for Trump’s impeachment and prosecution.
Senator Elizabeth Warren last month released a policy proposal that would change the DOJ law which prevents a sitting president from being indicted—in April, she told a CNN Town Hall that “if any other human being in this country had done what’s documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail.”
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg supports beginning the impeachment process, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a group of Democrats she hopes to see the president in “prison.”
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"Kamala Harris Joins Elizabeth Warren in Threatening to Prosecute Trump"
By Davis Richardson
06/12/19 11:55am
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) became the latest Democrat to threaten President Donald Trump with prosecution.
Speaking to NPR, the 2020 hopeful said her Department of Justice “would have no choice” but to prosecute Trump, citing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks that his office was not able to indict a sitting president due to a longstanding government policy.
“I do believe that we should believe Bob Mueller when he tells us essentially that the only reason an indictment was not returned is because of a memo in the Department of Justice that suggests you cannot indict a sitting president."
"But I’ve seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence,” said Harris.
The California senator also told the publication that she became a prosecutor because she believes in accountability and that not even the president is above the law.
“On one side etched in the marble are the words ‘equal justice under law.’"
"It doesn’t say ‘except for the president,'” continued Harris.
A chorus of 2020 Democratic candidates in recent weeks have rallied around calls for Trump’s impeachment and prosecution.
Senator Elizabeth Warren last month released a policy proposal that would change the DOJ law which prevents a sitting president from being indicted—in April, she told a CNN Town Hall that “if any other human being in this country had done what’s documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail.”
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg supports beginning the impeachment process, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a group of Democrats she hopes to see the president in “prison.”
https://observer.com/2019/06/kamala-har ... ute-trump/
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
THE POLITICAL FBI WAS WELL AWARE OF HILLARY CLINTON'S DIRTY DEALS WITH THE RUSSIANS WHEN SHE WAS HUSSEIN OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF STATE AND THEY COVERED THEM UP ...
AND WHY ISN'T IT ACCEPTABLE TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT ABOUT A POLITICAL OPPONENT?
BECAUSE SOME DEMOCRAT WHO WANTS TO KEEP DIRTY DEALS COVERED UP WANTS IT THAT WAY?
THE HILL
"Buttigieg on offers of foreign intel: 'Just call the FBI'"
Rachel Frazin
16 JUNE 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg responded to remarks from President Trump regarding offers of foreign intelligence, saying that in that case, the president should "call the FBI."
The South Bend, Ind. mayor told CBS's "Face the Nation" that it is not acceptable to receive information from a foreign government about a political opponent.
"Just call the FBI."
"It's not hard."
"It's not complicated," he said.
"If you think there's a foreign effort to tamper with an American election and you're an American who cares about America, you call the FBI."
Buttigieg also said that this issue "isn't hypothetical," referring to Russian interference attempts in in past elections.
"We were attacked by a hostile foreign power that decided that they could damage America, destabilize America, by intervening in the election to help him win."
"And they did and he did, and now America's destabilized," he said, apparently talking about Trump.
"So this is not some academic exercise."
"This is something that has happened and will probably happen again."
The presidential hopeful also questioned how a president who cares about the U.S. could allow a "potentially hostile foreign power" to interfere in its elections.
"You have to draw a very clear line," he said.
"If you care about this country, if you believe in putting this country first, how could you ever talk about allowing a foreign - potentially hostile foreign power to interfere in the most sacred thing that we have in our civic tradition in America, which is our elections?"
Buttigieg's remarks come after President Trump said Wednesday that he would consider accepting information political opponents from foreign entities.
"I think you might want to listen."
"There's nothing wrong with listening," Trump told ABC News.
"It's not an interference."
"They have information."
"I think I'd take it."
"If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI."
In the interview, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos noted that Trump's FBI director, Christopher Wray, has said campaigns should report such contact from foreign entities to the bureau.
"The FBI director is wrong," Trump responded.
The president's remarks received criticism from several lawmakers.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... P17#page=2
AND WHY ISN'T IT ACCEPTABLE TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT ABOUT A POLITICAL OPPONENT?
BECAUSE SOME DEMOCRAT WHO WANTS TO KEEP DIRTY DEALS COVERED UP WANTS IT THAT WAY?
THE HILL
"Buttigieg on offers of foreign intel: 'Just call the FBI'"
Rachel Frazin
16 JUNE 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg responded to remarks from President Trump regarding offers of foreign intelligence, saying that in that case, the president should "call the FBI."
The South Bend, Ind. mayor told CBS's "Face the Nation" that it is not acceptable to receive information from a foreign government about a political opponent.
"Just call the FBI."
"It's not hard."
"It's not complicated," he said.
"If you think there's a foreign effort to tamper with an American election and you're an American who cares about America, you call the FBI."
Buttigieg also said that this issue "isn't hypothetical," referring to Russian interference attempts in in past elections.
"We were attacked by a hostile foreign power that decided that they could damage America, destabilize America, by intervening in the election to help him win."
"And they did and he did, and now America's destabilized," he said, apparently talking about Trump.
"So this is not some academic exercise."
"This is something that has happened and will probably happen again."
The presidential hopeful also questioned how a president who cares about the U.S. could allow a "potentially hostile foreign power" to interfere in its elections.
"You have to draw a very clear line," he said.
"If you care about this country, if you believe in putting this country first, how could you ever talk about allowing a foreign - potentially hostile foreign power to interfere in the most sacred thing that we have in our civic tradition in America, which is our elections?"
Buttigieg's remarks come after President Trump said Wednesday that he would consider accepting information political opponents from foreign entities.
"I think you might want to listen."
"There's nothing wrong with listening," Trump told ABC News.
"It's not an interference."
"They have information."
"I think I'd take it."
"If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI."
In the interview, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos noted that Trump's FBI director, Christopher Wray, has said campaigns should report such contact from foreign entities to the bureau.
"The FBI director is wrong," Trump responded.
The president's remarks received criticism from several lawmakers.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... P17#page=2