'Don't bet against Michelle Obama': Tucker Carlson predicts former first lady will be 2020 Democratic nominee
Fox News host Tucker Carlson told voters not to rule out the possibility of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination going to former first lady Michelle Obama, despite her insistence that she isn't planning a run.
"If you're wondering who the Democratic nominee will be, don't bet against Michelle Obama," he said on Monday's Tucker Carlson Tonight. "Last week, the former first lady issued a statement claiming she has no interest in being president, but there are signs that’s not true."
Carlson then pointed to several examples that have made him suspicious about a potential Obama bid, including David Axlerod's attacks on 2020 front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama's refusal to endorse Biden in the race so far, and reports that the former president tried to convince his No. 2 not to enter.
"If Obama had endorsed Biden, the race would be over ... Obama hasn’t endorsed Joe Biden because he doesn't want to. Why? Maybe he’s got other plans," he speculated. "Obama's presidential memoir was also supposed to come out this year. Now, its release has been delayed until the middle of the Democratic primaries. In other words, at exactly the moment when Democrats will be thinking deeply about how to beat Trump, America will be talking about the Obamas. Coincidence? Maybe."
He added, "Maybe it’s also a coincidence that Michelle Obama just released yet another book last week, one that will require her, of course, to get on the road and talk to crowds ... The Democratic Party is ripping itself apart over race, and gender, and class. Michelle Obama, let's be honest, is one of the only people who could unite its warring factions."
Carlson then pointed out that the former first lady was found to be the most admired woman in the world in a recent poll. He also warned his viewers to expect the unexpected.
"One of the main lessons of Donald Trump's 2016 election is that you never really know. Unexpected things happen far more often than we imagine," he said, before playing a 2006 clip of Barack Obama insisting he wasn't planning on running for the Oval Office in 2008. "Just months after he did that, Barack Obama joined the presidential race. Three years later, almost to the day, he was inaugurated president of the United States."
In addition to being the most admired woman in the world, another poll found that Michelle Obama would be a front-runner in New Hampshire, a key early voting state, if she runs. While she's insisted there is "zero chance" she'll seek the Oval Office, family friends of the Obamas have publicly said she'd make a "good president."
If she were to enter, she'd be joining a crowded field of 18 Democrats and has already missed some filing deadlines. However, that hasn't deterred other late-entry candidates, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who launched his campaign on Sunday.
The Washington Examiner's Joseph Simonson contributed to this report.
Eric Holder ‘Frustrated’ Barack Obama Did Not Encourage His Presidential Aspirations
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder is “frustrated” former President Barack Obama did not emphatically encourage his presidential aspirations, those close to Holder and familiar with his thinking say.
Holder, who has warned Democrats to be “wary of attacking the Obama record,” was reportedly “frustrated” that Obama, who he considers a close friend, did not actively encourage his presidential aspirations.
Obama has remained notably silent throughout the Democrat primary – a development that should come to no surprise to those closely following the race. The former president signaled he would not endorse a primary candidate or speak out in an overly critical manner of any of the presidential hopefuls. According to Politico, Obama views his role as “providing guardrails to keep the process from getting too ugly and to unite the party when the nominee is clear.”
Obama has, largely, stuck to that strategy, refusing to endorse his former running mate Joe Biden (D) and refraining from encouraging the presidential aspirations of his “close friend” Holder, who teamed up with Obama’s Organizing For Action to create the All On The Line campaign, a redistricting project “aimed at thwarting the use of so-called gerrymandering across the country.”
While reports, as recently as early November, indicated Holder was still mulling a last-minute presidential bid, the doors are slowly closing. Politico reported Holder was reportedly “frustrated” Obama did not encourage his plans for a presidential bid, with a source close to Holder telling the outlet that “he’s [Holder’s] still pretty sensitive about it.”
The source said Biden’s bid threw a political wrench in Holder’s plans, because the two “have the same set of people,” making a run far too complicated. But now, Biden’s lackluster performances – in both the debates and on the campaign trail – are proving the initial concerns of many within the Democrat establishment, which is “really frustrating to Eric.”
“He was really frustrated about having arrived at the decision not to run. Holder couldn’t get in because Biden and Holder have the same set of people. Once Biden was getting in then Eric couldn’t get in. So that frustrated Holder,” the source said.
“It blocked him,” the source added. “And Biden has turned out the way they all feared, and that’s really frustrating to Eric.”
Nonetheless, Obama has also refrained from actively endorsing his former running mate – the man evidently responsible for quashing Holder’s 2020 bid. The former president reportedly said, prior to Biden’s entry into the race, that the former vice president would have to “earn” the nomination without his endorsement.
It remains to be seen if Michael Bloomberg’s late entry will affect Holder’s decision to stay out of the race.
CALIFORNIA COMRADES CHOOSE
COMRADE HOLDER
https://sacramentocitizen.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/california-comrades-choose-comrade-holder/
“Judicial
Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators
are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric
Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other
matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice
Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his
political patrons.”
CALIFORNIA COMRADES CHOOSE
COMRADE HOLDER
https://sacramentocitizen.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/california-comrades-choose-comrade-holder/
Any attorney general who is not
an activist is not doing his or her job.
Eric Holder
In Part One of this
series, we exposed the Chicano Marxist take over of the California legislature
and their plans to defy federal immigration laws and expected actions of
the incoming Trump administration. Gov. Jerry Brown’s nomination of Xavier Becerra to be
California’s next Attorney General was the first of many steps to protect the
pervasive lawlessness of the radical left. Becerra has already taken an
aggressive and combative stance against President-elect Donald Trump, vowing to
fight Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration laws, and even block attempts to
deport criminal illegal aliens. Trump’s campaign centered on building a
wall along the United States border with Mexico to keep out illegal
immigrants, violent gangs, and terrorists posing as immigrants.
Xavier Becerra, currently a 12-year
member of Congress, is an admitted member of MEChA, or
“Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan,” often likened to a Latino KKK.
Becerra has publicly defended MEChA, even
though the Chicano supremacist group evangelizes discrimination
against non-Hispanics and calls for the killing of Border Patrol “pigs.”
MEChA’s rallying cry is: “For the race, everything; For those outside the race, nothing.”
Becerra’s Radical Plans
Recently, the State Assembly Committee on the Office of the
Attorney General asked nominee Becerra to detail his plans on the issues
of immigration, civil rights, the environment, policing and consumer protection
– apparently the only issues the California Legislature is interested in
Becerra defending.
In a letter released Saturday,
Becerra praised California’s policies helping illegal aliens get driver’s
licenses, free college tuition, and free lawyers to represent them in
deportation cases, calling it “national leadership.”
“All of these policies and programs are representative of
California’s values as a welcoming state,” Becerra wrote to the Assembly
committee.
Becerra also took a shot at Trump for proposing to create a
registry of Muslim immigrants during the campaign.”Disturbing statements
uttered during the recent Presidential campaign have given rise to legitimate
fears that the new federal administration might seek to adopt policies that
would discriminate against people based on factors such as their religious
belief,” Becerra wrote. “Any such policies would be antithetical to the deepest
constitutional values and traditions of this nation — a nation founded in
part by men and women fleeing religious persecution.”
“I have no intention of allowing this policy through the doors
of California,” he wrote.
Like a good progressive foot soldier, Becerra also vowed to
fight for abortion, calling it “reproductive freedom.”
Becerra said he will support
California’s recent legislation expanding voter registration and participation
in elections. He might want to look into the 650,000 newly registered
California voters, registered online only weeks before the election. According to the Los
Angeles Times, “98%
of all the growth in California’s voter ranks in 2016 happened in just the last
45 days of the registration season.”
As Attorney General, Becerra has vowed to continue
enforcing policies to combat climate change and work to “transition
Californians to a low-carbon way of life.” Becerra added that a part of
environmental protections is safe drinking water and vowed to “pursue the goal
of providing safe drinking water to all Californians.” Perhaps Becerra can
begin by supporting the safe drinking water bills that Assemblyman Devon Mathis
has tried to get passed over the last two years? In Mathis’ district,
wells began going dry in East Porterville more than three years ago, with more
continuing to dry up every day.
Assemblyman Devon Mathis, R-Porterville, authored the bills
to provide $10 million to homeowners (not farmers) to dig deeper wells and
clean contaminated ones.
Both bills passed through the Assembly and a state Senate
committee without opposition, only to have Senate Appropriations Chairman
Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles and Mecha activist, put both bills on suspense– one
after the other, killing them and depriving 10,000+ low-income individuals
access to running water. Sen. Lara was playing politics with this Republican
bill, despite the 10,000 poor people who need the clean water.
Sanctuary Cities
California, through its 35 Sanctuary
Cities, is clearly violating U.S. Federal Immigration law. Recently, Democrat
members of the State Legislature proposed two bills: SB 6 by Sen. Ben Hueso, to
create a state program to fund legal representation for illegal aliens facing
deportation, and AB 3 by Assemblyman Rob Bonta to create taxpayer-funded training for
defense attorneys and public defenders on immigration law for illegal aliens.
And now California is going to try to prevent the new
Presidential administration from enforcing federal immigration law despite the
fact that the Constitution clearly imposes a duty on the president and the
executive branch, to enforce the law.
Hiring Eric Holder… for what?
Democrats in the California State
Legislature apparently decided Becerra isn’t enough legal muscle, and recently
hired former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to fight a “clear and present
danger” from President-elect Trump… the same former Attorney General Eric
Holder who was once blasted for helping to trigger a “war” on police and called America “a nation of cowards” on the issue of
race. However, he now says he sees his “younger” self in Black Lives
Matter activists… this is who California hired to assist California’s top law
enforcement officer?
Since Trump — who is not referring
to himself as “The Office of President-Elect,” as his predecessor did — has not yet taken office, nor
any official actions, it is hard to see specifically for what purpose Holder
has been hired.
There certainly is poetic justice in hiring the failed Attorney
General of the failed Obama Administration to defend the failed and
deteriorating policies of the Jerry Brown administration and radical Democrats
running the state.
Described as a “devious,
power-hungry, racial zealot,” Eric Holder is also a dubious choice since he is
the only U.S. Attorney General in history to be held in contempt of Congress,
when he refused to turn over Operation Fast and Furious documents to Congress. One of the most reckless law
enforcement operations ever conducted by the Justice Department, it involved
selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, and resulted in the death of a U.S.
border patrol agent, Brian Terry, as well as hundreds of Mexican citizens.
Under Holder’s watch at the DOJ
Civil Rights Division, more than half of all the lawyers hired were chosen from
four radical, anti-American organizations: the ACLU, National Council of La
Raza, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the
Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky outlined
in their 2014 book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
Additionally, the Justice Department
under Holder, and now Loretta Lynch, has one of the worst records before the U.S.
Supreme Court, losing significantly more cases than either of the Bush or
Clinton Departments of Justice. “In most administrations, the department wins
about 70 percent of the cases before the Supreme Court; Mr. Holder’s department
has a losing record and has lost at least nine cases 9-0–even with Obama
appointees Elena Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor on the court,” wrote Jared Taylor of American
Renaissance, in a review of “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
Judicial Watch announced today that
it filed a records request with the
California Legislature Joint Rules Committee seeking to examine legislative
records regarding the state’s employment of former Obama U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder Jr. The record request includes:
All contracts between the California Legislature and former U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling.
All communications between the California Legislature and former
U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling about the
Legislature’s retention of Holder and/or Covington and Burling.
“Judicial
Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators
are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric
Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other
matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice
Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his
political patrons.”
The hiring of Eric Holder by the California Legislature
confirms a lack of confidence in Xavier Becerra by Gov. Brown and
Democrats in the Legislature–which must be quite humiliating for Becerra,
especially after his promise to uphold California’s “progressive” policies on
immigration, Obamacare, energy, and criminal justice. “If you want to take on a
forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then
come at us,” Becerra said, directing his comment to Trump. Choosing
Holder also reiterates the anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-religion
movement of Marxists in America, but particularly in California.
The biggest obstacle standing between Marxism and Marxist domination
of the world is America, and the U.S. Constitution. And standing between a
Marxist takeover of America is California – only when California is destroyed
can Marxists proceed.
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