Kirsten Gillibrand Drops out of 2020 Presidential Race
August 28, 2019 Updated: August 28, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is the latest Democratic candidate to announce that she has ended her bid for the 2020 presidential race, becoming the seventh Democratic candidate to drop out of the 2020 presidential race.
“Today, I am ending my campaign for president. I am so proud of this team and all we’ve accomplished. But I think it’s important to know how you can best serve,” she wrote in a Twitter post on Aug. 28.
“To our supporters: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Now, let’s go beat Donald Trump and win back the Senate.”
In a video accompanying her Twitter post, Gillibrand told her supporters: “I know this isn’t the result that we wanted. We wanted to win this race.”
“But it’s important to know when it’s not your time and to know how you can best serve your community and country,” she added.
President Donald Trump reacted to the announcement, writing on Twitter: “A sad day for the Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the Presidential Primary.”
“I’m glad they never found out that she was the one I was really afraid of!” he added.
Gillibrand, who was polling regularly under one percent according to Real Clear Politics, has made abortion rights the key issue of her 2020 campaign. She declared last month in a post on Medium that she would only nominate judges who would uphold the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.
“I will only nominate judges — including Supreme Court justices — who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women’s reproductive rights,” she wrote.
In June, she was engaged in a heated conversation with Fox News’ host Chris Wallace during her town hall in Iowa after she took the opportunity to rip into the news network.
“I can tell you, before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide. Infanticide doesn’t exist …” Gillibrand said before further criticizing the network and calling the debate surrounding abortion a “red herring.”
Gillibrand’s announcement comes after Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who was also regularly polling under one percent, announced his exit from the race on Aug. 23.
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, former West Virginia Sen. Richard Ojeda, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) were the first three candidates to drop out of the race. This was followed by former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who dropped out on Aug. 15, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee,who dropped out on Aug. 21.
2020 Democrats Align with Billionaire Koch
Brothers on DACA Amnesty
AP/Jeff Chiu
2020 Democrat presidential
primary candidates have aligned themselves with the billionaire GOP mega-donor
Koch brothers and their network of organizations in their support for giving
amnesty to illegal aliens eligible and enrolled in former President Obama’s
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Dems Go
All In on Amnesty for DACA Illegals: 'Make Them Citizens'
2020 Democrats Align with Billionaire Koch
Brothers on DACA Amnesty
JOHN BINDER
27 Jun 2019139
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2020 Democrat presidential
primary candidates have aligned themselves with the billionaire GOP mega-donor
Koch brothers and their network of organizations in their support for giving
amnesty to illegal aliens eligible and enrolled in former President Obama’s
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
During the
second Democrat presidential primary debate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
attacked the Koch brothers directly, saying, “We restore the power of democracy
into the hands of the voters, not into the hands of the Koch brothers.”
Gillibrand, though — and other
Democrats running for the presidential nomination — has taken the same stance on amnesty for DACA illegal aliens as the Koch brothers.
For years, the Koch brothers and
their network of economic libertarian organizations have lobbied and pushed for giving amnesty to at least 3.5 million
DACA-enrolled and eligible illegal aliens. Likewise, Democrat candidates for
president have made giving amnesty to DACA illegal aliens their primary focus
on the immigration issue.
“I will …
reinstate DACA status and DACA protection to those young people,” Sen. Kamala
Harris (D-CA) said about the plan Koch-funded organizations have lobbied
Congress to enact. “I will further extend protection for deferral of
deportation for their parents and for veterans who … have served our country
and fought for our democracy.”
“First, I
would fight for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to
citizenship,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said, also agreeing with the
Koch-funded organizations’ position on immigration.
Democrat candidates during the first
debate on Wednesday agreed with the Koch brothers’ network of organizations that
millions of DACA illegal aliens should receive amnesty and a pathway to
obtaining American citizenship.
Jay Inslee went as far to say that DACA illegal aliens
are "some of the most inspirational people" in his state. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/26/2020-democrats-go-all-in-on-amnesty-for-daca-illegal-aliens-must-make-them-u-s-citizens/ …
Dems Go
All In on Amnesty for DACA Illegals: 'Make Them Citizens'
A DACA amnesty would put more
citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal
welfare, as Breitbart News reported,
while American taxpayers would be left potentially
with a $26 billion bill.
Additionally,
about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to
give amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not also include provisions to
halve legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits about 1.2 million legal
immigrants a year at the expense of America’s working and middle class — would
give amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring an unlimited number of
foreign relatives to the country.
At the
southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to trigger a border surge
that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring through the border.
Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the program have been
kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or gang members.
MARK LEVIN:
‘Unbridled Immigration,
Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’
*
“Through love of having
children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown
Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at
an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
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This annual income for an impoverished American family is
$10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on
each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the University of California at San
Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in
the program have anchor babies. That totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are
the children of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor
babies of DACA-qualified illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
Every Legal is one paycheck and One Hundred
Illegals away from homelessness…. a
rape, murder or molestation!
NANCY PELOSI’S VISION OF AMERICA: 49 MORE
MEXIFORNIAS AND A 50 STATE EXPANDED ANCHOR BABY WELFARE STATE
Gillibrand: Phony candidate for fake 'women's issue' problems packs it in
After a campaign that was loaded with errors and misfires — from going into a gay bar and looking like a poseur to backtracking on previous moderate positions in favor of leftist extremes, to lecturing suburban white women on their white-skin privilege, Kirsten Gillibrand has called it quits.
It was time. She never breached more than a couple points in the polls, and by the bitter end, even her staff was leaking to the press that it was time to be a rat and flee the sinking ship.
Good riddance, because never was there are more useless candidate. She positioned herself as the candidate of women's issues, but she had no real foils to charge at. Her yellings about abortion, women's workplace equality, and #MeToo only proved she was out of tune with the times. Worse still, these issues tended to be problems of Democratic, not Republican, origin, which made her a nuisance to both sides.
This doesn't even get into her speaking of problems she knew nothing about, such as the border crisis. She called for the abolition of ICE quite loudly and then, when people started asking if she was serious, started to backtrack.
But let's take a look at her claim to being the candidate of "women's issues" as the blonde pink suburban housewife she had available to herself as the identity cubbyhole needed to run as a Democrat at all.
Abortion? She called for more money to Planned Parenthood and denounced low abortion availability in some states. A smart candidate would probably moderate her abortion stance, given that polls show that Americans are turning against abortion. Not Gillibrand. She kept up the old NOW-style Helen Reddyesque form of feminism by touting abortion on demand as if abortion hasn't been legal for nearly fifty years. Women have long complained that politicians throw out abortion to them as their ticked box for the "women" special interest group, yet it's far from a majority of women who are having abortions. Gillibrand was one of them.
Women's workplace equality? The old 1970s-style trope of women making 70 cents on the dollar (which isn't exactly true). Gillibrand was right there, as if President Obama's administration and his Lilly Ledbetter law had never existed. This again isn't exactly a women's issue these days.
#MeToo? She tried to get in on that one, too. Problem: Most of the egregious cases of sex harassment were perpetrated by the Democratic establishment — the Harvey Weinsteins who donated to Democrats and supported Planned Parenthood, the Bill Clintons who flew, again and again, on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express to the Caribbean island, the leftwing Les Moonveses and Matt Lauers and Charlie Roses in the press, or Al Franken in the Senate, not to mention many the leftist actors in Hollywood. #MeToo is largely a Democrat problem. Vice President Mike Pence, who didn't even want the appearance of impropriety to stain him, was roundly denounced by Democrats as a Pecksniff.
Yet here we had Gillibrand, marketing herself as a Year of the Woman candidate (there've been a lot of Years of the Woman, by the way), and it's very, very old hat. No wonder her campaign failed. Women's issues as she addressed them were never a big deal in this era of equality that Democrats have largely built.
If Gillibrand were really serious about women's issues, instead of a lightweight trying to fit herself into some identity politics role as the candidate for women, she'd start talking some serious issues of concern for women, such as transgender participation in women's sports by men, depriving women of any potential for medals, or the serious side effects of abortion on women who've been injured by them, or else the sick degradation of the culture in Planned Parenthood's trafficking of aborted baby parts for quite a bit more than expenses. #MeToo? Maybe she can bring up that Democrats are the problem.
But she can't do that. She wants to oppose Republicans, but all of the problems she can potentially address are Democrat in origin or else nonexistent. No wonder she kept misfiring and her campaign never got off the ground. She was running for president in 1976, fighting the last few wars. She wasn't running a campaign for 2020.
Image credit: Photo illustration by Monica Showalter, with images by Alden Jewell via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, and shareable NBC screen shot.
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