BREAKING: Seth Moulton enters Presidential Race

[brooklynite]

[JI7]

1. why ?

[brooklynite]

2. Did everyone else need a reason?

[MrsCoffee]

18. Well yeah.

Kind of stupid to run if you don’t have a reason.

[LonePirate]

3. How does he think he is going to breakthrough against the 20 or so current candidates?

[democrank]

4. A clear, principled message.

I welcome his voice and ideas. Great to have another veteran’s perspective. Seth is right. Many, many people feel betrayed by Washington. Time for a different way forward.

[watrwefitinfor]

6. I strongly second your welcome to his voice and ideas.

Color me shocked. I never heard of him before.

Love his presence. And the way he takes on Trump. And his sense of humor. (Salem "witch hunt" comment toward the end.) He touches so many of the bases in this brief intro.

Need to learn more about him/his record.

Wat

[Honeycombe8]

5. I don't know who that is. Or why he thinks another candidate is needed.

What the heck is going on here?

[crazytown]

9. No doubt the same judgment that led him to oppose Pelosi

informed his decision to enter the Presidential race.

[Hortensis]

19. Yes, he and fellow blue dog Ryan can duke it out for the misogynist vote.

[PatSeg]

11. Running for president

is a good way to get exposure if you want to move up in politics or broaden your horizons down the road. Meanwhile, an unknown politician can get his ideas and policies out there for more people to see. Everyone running for president doesn't really expect to become president, though some may be auditioning for vice president.

[MrsCoffee]

17. Another who tried to unseat Pelosi.

I don’t trust him or Tim Ryan.

[Honeycombe8]

22. Me, either. That was a weird thing to do...

Shortsighted and foolish, considering the times we are in. To think that the experienced leaders we have should be replaced with novice leaders, and try to weaken her position (and therefore weaken the party). Really odd thing to do.

[crazytown]

7. FEC: Raised $207,000 January - March

[brooklynite]

8. That would have been for his Congressional campaign

[crazytown]

12. Yes - as he has not formed an exploratory committee

Seth Moulton’s campaign cash bodes ill for a 2020 presidential run
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/04/15/moultons-campaign-cash-bodes-ill-for-a-2020-presidential-run/

[dalton99a]

10. There should be a talent show and an arm wrestling contest

before the debate - so the candidates can distinguish themselves - now that we have so many

[crazytown]

13. I think there's a maximum limit of 20 in the debates: 2 x 10

According to Wikipedia, there were 17 Dem candidates in 1976.

[brooklynite]

21. Correct, with two more candidates expected...

...Biden and Montana Governor Steve Bullock. So we start with a game of musical chairs...

[4139]

14. A bit right of center, he has a path for New Hampshire...

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-seth-moulton-could-win-the-2020-democratic-primary/amp/

[rgbecker]

15. Finally a knowledgible candidate who calls out the waste in military spending.

Where are the other candidates on our overblown defense budget larger than the next 10 countries' budgets combined?

Afraid to speak out.

[MrsCoffee]

16. Nope.

[patricia92243]

20. Actually, I was thoroughly impressed. I really like having a veteran in the WH.

I'm all in for Pete, but if something should happen before the primaries, I will look at the fellow again.

[Hortensis]

23. He's for sure running to gloss his resume, but he may be

specifically in need of restyling after smearing himself in an incompetent attempt to remove America's highest ranking woman from office. Here's where we left him last time he was of interest to this forum, aka leader of the #fivewhiteguys:

The Pathetic Pelosi Putsch: Seth Moulton and friends said they would take down the first female speaker of the House. Here’s what went wrong.

... Dumping a historic figure like Pelosi, the first female speaker, after she weathered a Republican blitzkrieg to help her party win back the House, was always going to be a tall order. (And don’t say I didn’t warn them!) But Moulton’s operation has been, to borrow some military jargon, FUBAR. He’s poised to not only lose his battle with the party establishment, but to lose in such humiliating fashion that it could ruin his reputation and douse whatever presidential fires may be burning in his belly.

Just how did he botch this so badly? Let us count the ways: ...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/26/speaker-nancy-pelosi-revolt-seth-moulton-222686