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Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is not going to let Beto O'Roarke take his guns away. No sir.

Manchin: 'Beto O'Rourke is not taking my guns away from me'

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told reporters Wednesday that presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is "not taking my guns away from me."

Manchin told a Wall Street Journal reporter that the former Texas representative did not speak for all Democrats when vowing to complete mandatory buybacks for certain high-powered rifles.

"Beto's one human being," Manchin said, according to a Wall Street Journal reporter. "He gave his own opinion, OK? I think it was very harmful to make it look like all the Democrats. I can tell you one thing: Beto O'Rourke's not taking my guns away from me. You tell Beto that OK?"​

 

Elizabeth Warren, Ladies and Gentlemen:



Could she be the one who Democrats will choose to take on Donald Trump?

Not seeing a lot of dark skin in that crowd....

 

Sounds like you never made it to any of Obama's rally's.

 

For all you know, I was a regular at these events.

 

Obama won in no small part because of the support he received from the black community. It does not appear from that picture that Pocahontas is receiving very much of that support by comparison.

Just something to think about.

 

Now he can go back to laying waste to New York City.

Apparently President Trump agrees:

 

Chris Cillizza at CNN believes that this contest is now down to a two person race.

The 2020 top tier is just two candidates now

There are -- still! -- 20 candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. But, at the moment, it looks like a two-horse race. Those two are former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren who, in a series of recent polls, increasingly appear to be separating themselves from the rest of the field.

Biden is averaging 28.8% in the Real Clear Politics polling average of all national surveys, while Warren is at 18.3% -- almost 2 points clear of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (16.5%).​

Two points clear in the latest poll. That is the margin by which Pocahantas has taken the lead - still five months away from the first primary votes being cast - and Cillizza has decided that is all he needs to see to cast Bernie Sanders onto the ash-heap of history. What a clown.

The degree that these people insert themselves into these contests to try to affect the outcome and make themselves part of the story is really quite remarkable. Bernie Sanders got the shaft in no uncertain terms from a very corrupt DNC in 2016. And now it appears that they are going after him again.

I get it that many of these "journalists" and the leaders of their media organizations are extreme narcissists who are arrogant to a degree that is pretty close to off the scale. They believe that it is up to them to pick the winners and losers, to help the candidates they like and try to hamstring the ones that they do not like.

Did these people not learn anything from the 2016 primary contest debacle and the resentment and lack of trust that fiasco engendered? And now, they are doing it again.

This kind of interference could well serve to help Sanders and his campaign going forward. Do not be surprised if it does.