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Pete Buttigieg Suspends Campaign - Effect? (1 Viewer)
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skol asylum
Footballguy
Good evening,
I joined this race in the belief that becoming the Democratic nominee was the best way for me to ensure that we defeat Donald Trump and usher in a new kind of politics defined by bringing people together.
At this point in the race, the best way to keep faith with those goals and with the ideals our campaign has been built around is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together. So tonight I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.
I will no longer seek to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president. But I’m going to do everything in my power to ensure that we have a Democratic president come January.
I cannot express how grateful I am for you, Scott. How grateful I am for every supporter, every volunteer, and every staffer who believed in what we were building.
So many of you dug deep to fuel this campaign, joining nearly a million grassroots donors so that this message of hope and belonging could reach every corner of this country.
Online, in person, with family and friends and complete strangers, you shared your personal stories, and you made the life of this campaign part of your own.
What you did -- and the way you did it -- let us show, not just tell, the kind of campaign we could be and the kind of country we will build. You made me proud every day.
In a field in which some two dozen Democratic candidates ran for president -- billionaires, sitting senators, and governors, a former vice president -- we achieved a top-four finish in each of the first four states to hold early contests and made history winning those Iowa caucuses.
That we made it here at all is proof that Americans are hungry for a new kind of politics, rooted in the values we share.
In a moment of deep division, we saw a rising American majority of Democrats, joined by Independents, and, yes, some of those future former Republicans, choose a politics defined not by who we push out, but by how many we call in; not by who we exclude, but by how we help people belong.
With every passing day, I am more and more convinced that the only way we will defeat Trump and Trumpism is with that politics that gathers people together.
And I urge everyone who supported me or ever even considered it, to be prepared to do everything we can to support the eventual nominee -- and the absolutely critical down-ballot races playing out across the country. There is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines.
I know many will be disappointed that this campaign will not go on. I know it’s easy to get frustrated with politics, especially at this moment.
But this is the moment of all moments to insist that we make our politics what it could be. As I’ve said before -- at its best, politics can be magnificent. Because it’s not just about policy, it is soulcraft. And it is moral.
And we don’t have to win the nomination to be part of that. I don’t have to become the president in order to support that. We don’t have to win Super Tuesday for my campaign to do our part to win the era for our values.
And we walk on in the knowledge that better leadership is possible. That if we reach for it, if we work for it, if we hold that hope in our hearts and fire in our bellies, then one day we will stand in the future we create, a future where every American is empowered and everyone belongs.
Thank you.
Pete
I joined this race in the belief that becoming the Democratic nominee was the best way for me to ensure that we defeat Donald Trump and usher in a new kind of politics defined by bringing people together.
At this point in the race, the best way to keep faith with those goals and with the ideals our campaign has been built around is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together. So tonight I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.
I will no longer seek to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president. But I’m going to do everything in my power to ensure that we have a Democratic president come January.
I cannot express how grateful I am for you, Scott. How grateful I am for every supporter, every volunteer, and every staffer who believed in what we were building.
So many of you dug deep to fuel this campaign, joining nearly a million grassroots donors so that this message of hope and belonging could reach every corner of this country.
Online, in person, with family and friends and complete strangers, you shared your personal stories, and you made the life of this campaign part of your own.
What you did -- and the way you did it -- let us show, not just tell, the kind of campaign we could be and the kind of country we will build. You made me proud every day.
In a field in which some two dozen Democratic candidates ran for president -- billionaires, sitting senators, and governors, a former vice president -- we achieved a top-four finish in each of the first four states to hold early contests and made history winning those Iowa caucuses.
That we made it here at all is proof that Americans are hungry for a new kind of politics, rooted in the values we share.
In a moment of deep division, we saw a rising American majority of Democrats, joined by Independents, and, yes, some of those future former Republicans, choose a politics defined not by who we push out, but by how many we call in; not by who we exclude, but by how we help people belong.
With every passing day, I am more and more convinced that the only way we will defeat Trump and Trumpism is with that politics that gathers people together.
And I urge everyone who supported me or ever even considered it, to be prepared to do everything we can to support the eventual nominee -- and the absolutely critical down-ballot races playing out across the country. There is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines.
I know many will be disappointed that this campaign will not go on. I know it’s easy to get frustrated with politics, especially at this moment.
But this is the moment of all moments to insist that we make our politics what it could be. As I’ve said before -- at its best, politics can be magnificent. Because it’s not just about policy, it is soulcraft. And it is moral.
And we don’t have to win the nomination to be part of that. I don’t have to become the president in order to support that. We don’t have to win Super Tuesday for my campaign to do our part to win the era for our values.
And we walk on in the knowledge that better leadership is possible. That if we reach for it, if we work for it, if we hold that hope in our hearts and fire in our bellies, then one day we will stand in the future we create, a future where every American is empowered and everyone belongs.
Thank you.
Pete
Most polls I have seen have had literally the opposite
Maybe I will compile some and make a thread. 
cobalt_27
Footballguy
of the recent polls 1-3% shifts. Might be larger now post S.C.Most polls I have seen have had literally the opposite
Yougov Feb 26-27
Biden 50 Trump 41 / Sanders 48 Trump 42
FoxNews Feb 23-24
Biden 49 Trump 41 / Sanders 49 Trump 42
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
The General
Footballguy
I was looking mainly at state polls. It is actually fairly close, but I would argue it counters the argument that Sanders is not competitive. Obviously this is just a thought exercise this far from the election, and I am not looking too much into the the cross tabs of each poll to see if they have abnormal ratios that can bias it, but just looking at averages of potentially competitive states with some polling:cobalt_27 said:
Texas - Trump +2.4 over Sanders, +2.6 over Biden - probably not going to be a swing state this year, but close enough in these polls to include
NC - Sanders + 0.7 over Trump, Biden +3.4 over Trump
Penn - Both Sanders and Biden + 3 over Trump
Wis - Trump +1 over Sanders, + 1.7 over Biden
Mich - Sanders + 5.3 over Trump, Biden + 5.2 over Trump
I would argue that Sanders is under-represented some amount, just because young people only have cell phones and don't answer unknown numbers, but I have no evidence of this, just a personal assumption.
All data from here, so not sure if anything is omitted: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
I don't think you were looking at the most recent polls.cobalt_27 said:
cobalt_27
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Mayor of Fort Wayne next? Or what the heck, just go straight for the top - here we come Indianapolis!cap'n grunge said:
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Hopefully he’s seen the movie Hoosiers. The court looks intimidating in Indianapolis the first time you walk out there. Nothing like the gym in Hickory.
skol asylum
Footballguy
Funny thing is, his latest fundraiser was a chance to meet Michael J Fox and Pete for dinner or something.
Navin Johnson
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Hurts Sanders as the votes aren't as thinned out and the 15% threshold becomes more easily attainable.
NutterButter
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Yup. No different than 2016.cobalt_27 said:
Drunken Cowboy
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