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The End Is Near: Willie Brown spooge bag Kamala Harris Closing Campaign Offices Across New Hampshire
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Nov 3, 2019, 1:34:29 PM11/3/19
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The only thing that could make the schadenfreude here sweeter would be if
Tulsi Gabbard suddenly announced that she’s opening offices in New
Hampshire.
Preferably in the same buildings that Harris’s campaign is vacating, adds
a Twitter pal.
Honestly, if you’re in such dire straits that you’re giving up on certain
early states, just pull the plug. Endorse Warren or Biden and start
angling to be surrogate-in-chief. Anything to spare yourself the indignity
of eventually adopting the Giuliani 2008 “Just Win Florida” strategy in
desperation.
At her Portsmouth office, a large chalkboard could be seen through the
window that reading, “105 days until Feb. 11.” That would have been Oct.
29, the day before Harris’ campaign announced it would lay off dozens of
people and redeploy others to Iowa as she hemorrhaged cash. The office was
checked four times throughout the day, and each time the doors were locked
and lights were out.
A hundred miles away in Keene, the office in a storefront on Main Street
was dark, chairs were folded up, and a bag of Cheetos and Halloween candy
sat on one of a number of empty tables at the front of the office…
In Nashua, one of the state’s biggest cities, the only evidence left that
Harris had an office there was one line — “Kamala Harris” — on a listing
of offices on the fifth floor. A small glass window into Suite 501 showed
it to be empty. There was a “Space Available” sign outside the building,
though it appeared there were other empty offices in the building.
The lone remaining Harris 2020 office in the state, in Manchester, also
appeared vacant earlier this morning, notes Politico, but a light was on
later in the day and a guy emerged to assure reporters that all was well
with the campaign.
Dude, I think he might have been lying.
The most enjoyable take on Harris’s New Hampshire retreat comes from local
outlet WMUR, which is clearly interpreting this as a snub — especially her
decision not to fly in next week and file in person to have her name
placed on the ballot, a tradition among presidential candidates:
[Spokesman Nate] Evans added: “Sen. Harris will not visit New Hampshire on
Nov. 6 and 7, but her name will still be placed on the primary ballot.”
With the exception of sitting presidents, who have often had surrogates
file for them, it’s virtually unheard of for a major candidates to file in
the New Hampshire primary with making a personal appearance to do so…
“She’s thumbing her nose at the New Hampshire primary, and there is no
upside to this approach,” [said New England College politics professor
Wayne Lesperance.]
Lesperance also pointed out that Harris could also be burning her bridges
in New Hampshire for any future run for president, if she is unsuccessful
in the current campaign.
Hoo boy. If you’re wondering what prompted this dramatic withdrawal, you
must have missed the news last week that Team Harris was facing a cash
crunch. As her polls tanked over the summer, her fundraising began drying
up. She took in just $11.8 million, nearly $3 million less than she spent.
In order to stay afloat, she had to start making hard decisions about
reallocating resources. In practice that meant reassigning staffers from
Nevada, California, and, yes, New Hampshire to Iowa, where she’s now all-
in. All that’s left in NH is a skeleton staff.
As a matter of triage, it makes strategic sense. New Hampshire is harder
for her to win than Iowa because of the de facto home-field advantage that
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren enjoy there. Ideally she would have
gone all-in on South Carolina, where black voters make up a majority of
the Democratic primary, but Joe Biden’s lead among them has been large and
resilient. And South Carolina votes third on the calendar. If Harris got
crushed in Iowa and New Hampshire and limped into SC with zero momentum,
it’s all but impossible to imagine her rallying voters there to hand her a
victory. Particularly since the higher-polling Biden is apt to be in the
same position.
So, by process of elimination, she had to bet everything on Iowa. It’s a
long long longshot — the electorate is overwhelmingly white and there are
not three but four top-tier contenders she’ll need to somehow leapfrog to
win the state. (Buttigieg is right in the thick of the race there,
remember.) Based on today’s RCP averages, she actually starts in a deeper
hole in Iowa (where she’s at 3.0 percent) than she does in New Hampshire
(where she’s at 4.0). But she has no choice. Either she quits the race or
she hopes for a miracle in IA, where a win really could give her the
momentum she needs to win South Carolina as well.
Ah well. Such is life for candidates who are running for president simply
because they want to be president. There are a lot of them out there. Most
— maybe not Buttigieg — will also be out of the race soon. I leave you
with this.
Allahpundit
@allahpundit
Waving goodbye to Harris 2020 like
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
closing-campaign-offices-across-new-hampshire/
The only thing that could make the schadenfreude here sweeter would be if
Tulsi Gabbard suddenly announced that she’s opening offices in New
Hampshire.
Preferably in the same buildings that Harris’s campaign is vacating, adds
a Twitter pal.
Honestly, if you’re in such dire straits that you’re giving up on certain
early states, just pull the plug. Endorse Warren or Biden and start
angling to be surrogate-in-chief. Anything to spare yourself the indignity
of eventually adopting the Giuliani 2008 “Just Win Florida” strategy in
desperation.
At her Portsmouth office, a large chalkboard could be seen through the
window that reading, “105 days until Feb. 11.” That would have been Oct.
29, the day before Harris’ campaign announced it would lay off dozens of
people and redeploy others to Iowa as she hemorrhaged cash. The office was
checked four times throughout the day, and each time the doors were locked
and lights were out.
A hundred miles away in Keene, the office in a storefront on Main Street
was dark, chairs were folded up, and a bag of Cheetos and Halloween candy
sat on one of a number of empty tables at the front of the office…
In Nashua, one of the state’s biggest cities, the only evidence left that
Harris had an office there was one line — “Kamala Harris” — on a listing
of offices on the fifth floor. A small glass window into Suite 501 showed
it to be empty. There was a “Space Available” sign outside the building,
though it appeared there were other empty offices in the building.
The lone remaining Harris 2020 office in the state, in Manchester, also
appeared vacant earlier this morning, notes Politico, but a light was on
later in the day and a guy emerged to assure reporters that all was well
with the campaign.
Dude, I think he might have been lying.
The most enjoyable take on Harris’s New Hampshire retreat comes from local
outlet WMUR, which is clearly interpreting this as a snub — especially her
decision not to fly in next week and file in person to have her name
placed on the ballot, a tradition among presidential candidates:
[Spokesman Nate] Evans added: “Sen. Harris will not visit New Hampshire on
Nov. 6 and 7, but her name will still be placed on the primary ballot.”
With the exception of sitting presidents, who have often had surrogates
file for them, it’s virtually unheard of for a major candidates to file in
the New Hampshire primary with making a personal appearance to do so…
“She’s thumbing her nose at the New Hampshire primary, and there is no
upside to this approach,” [said New England College politics professor
Wayne Lesperance.]
Lesperance also pointed out that Harris could also be burning her bridges
in New Hampshire for any future run for president, if she is unsuccessful
in the current campaign.
Hoo boy. If you’re wondering what prompted this dramatic withdrawal, you
must have missed the news last week that Team Harris was facing a cash
crunch. As her polls tanked over the summer, her fundraising began drying
up. She took in just $11.8 million, nearly $3 million less than she spent.
In order to stay afloat, she had to start making hard decisions about
reallocating resources. In practice that meant reassigning staffers from
Nevada, California, and, yes, New Hampshire to Iowa, where she’s now all-
in. All that’s left in NH is a skeleton staff.
As a matter of triage, it makes strategic sense. New Hampshire is harder
for her to win than Iowa because of the de facto home-field advantage that
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren enjoy there. Ideally she would have
gone all-in on South Carolina, where black voters make up a majority of
the Democratic primary, but Joe Biden’s lead among them has been large and
resilient. And South Carolina votes third on the calendar. If Harris got
crushed in Iowa and New Hampshire and limped into SC with zero momentum,
it’s all but impossible to imagine her rallying voters there to hand her a
victory. Particularly since the higher-polling Biden is apt to be in the
same position.
So, by process of elimination, she had to bet everything on Iowa. It’s a
long long longshot — the electorate is overwhelmingly white and there are
not three but four top-tier contenders she’ll need to somehow leapfrog to
win the state. (Buttigieg is right in the thick of the race there,
remember.) Based on today’s RCP averages, she actually starts in a deeper
hole in Iowa (where she’s at 3.0 percent) than she does in New Hampshire
(where she’s at 4.0). But she has no choice. Either she quits the race or
she hopes for a miracle in IA, where a win really could give her the
momentum she needs to win South Carolina as well.
Ah well. Such is life for candidates who are running for president simply
because they want to be president. There are a lot of them out there. Most
— maybe not Buttigieg — will also be out of the race soon. I leave you
with this.
Allahpundit
@allahpundit
Waving goodbye to Harris 2020 like
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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