2020 Presidential Election

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by CherylNYC

I was listening to 'Ask Me Another' on the radio today and Mayor Pete was on the show. The host pronounced his name as

Boot-i-judge.

I listened to his interview on Pod Save America this morning and i like him! He's a little centrist in health care, though.

Well, not centrist so much as incrementalist. He wants to put a Medicare-for-all plan in among the other plans you can choose on the exchanges and let people come to their support through experience.

He said that is how we got from the "Death Panel" town halls in 2010 to the "Save the ACA" town halls of 2017-- people's impressions changed after the issue was no longer theoretical and had become part of their experience.

I also like that he is a veteran and that he is very serious and that Bernie is the politician he most admires.

Oh! And that he calls out the condescension that coastal progressives show to the midwest, which is a huge problem that only the right seems to call out (that i've noticed)