Tulsi shouldn't drop out cause some dumbass endorsed here. Duke endorsement doesn't mean anything for Democratic voters.

I'm not going by personal preference. I prefer everybody except Warren and Sanders to drop out but that's not realistic. Tulsi is averaging about 1.2% support in the real clear politics average, she's not going to win and staying in the race will ruin her image due to mainstream media's constant smears. It's best if she drops out endorses a candidate and push her message that way. She's not really gaining ground with the Democratic electorate so debates and the pr she gets from staying in the race are useless.

Kind of a false equivalence with Sanders don't you think? We only really had two candidates last time, this time the field is much larger and it will be that much tougher for Tulsi to run away with the nomination for someone who's averaging a 1.2% support as of now.

There are a lot of reasons to run, winning the nomination isn't the only one. In basic it provides a lot of attention. And this can be quite useful. So running in this race might be used to:

• get attention to then use it for another political race (Hickenlooper for Senate)
• use it to write a book to make money
• spread an idea or political stance with stronger attention (this might be the reason for Yang, Gabbard, Williamson and Inslee)

As long as they can get the attention it still is worthy for them to stay in the race.

(ok taking a long break from the Tulsi love fest that I'm sure many here are fed up with lol, but just one more thing..)

Her tweet calling out Hillary's baseless smears now has almost 300k likes on twitter. Only the biggest Dem politicians with the most popular messages are around that level and even Trump hasn't touched that level I don't think (with the exception being that Nickelback meme regarding Biden's Ukraine scandal and his tweet in support of the US rapper being imprisoned in Sweden or something..) Her followers have also shot up close to 100k since that statement, from around just over 600k to nearly 700k.

Like I said, that Hillary smear couldn't have been a better advertisement for Tulsi in terms of support or exposure. Best thing to happen to her campaign thus far XD.

Hmm, I didn't see that before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_7hN_1fKM

And Van Jones is right. Hillary Clinton is the one damaging the democratic party. And for what? About a candidate who will probably drop out anyway soon enough, as she isn't polling very high. Still there is the need for the baseless smears. Maybe he is right that the 2016 events of Gabbard resigning from DNC to endorse Bernie Sanders still sting.

I found this very interesting

Zuckerberg and his wife recommended some hires to the Buttigieg campaign early this year and the campaign ended up hiring 2 of the people recommended.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/zuckerberg-offered-advice-in-hiring-to-buttigieg-in-rare-move

This is extremely dangerous. Buttigieg who is continuing to blast Warren over various issues, is now revealed to be taking advice from Zuckerberg...The very man Warren has been quarreling with as she tries to break up big tech companies and their influence in politics. 

Buttigieg has continuously lowered himself on my preferred candidates, but this is even more damning truthfully. I do not trust him, nor do I trust his moderate status quo policies. Cozying up with a tech giant like Zuckerberg, who allows any ads to be put onto his website, as long as they pay, is dangerous. 

That's concerning. I honestly trust Warren over Buttigieg, at least she seems to want to keep some form of transparency and wants to keep Big Tech accountable with the regulation of speech and information.

He definitely seems like a fairly typical establishment moderate, especially when it comes to health care, foreign policy, and loan forgiveness (or lack thereof). I lost any sliver of interest I had in him when he was seemingly pressured out of merely appearing for a casual conversation/interview on Classical liberal Dave Rubin's online show.