The headline is, “Gillibrand lands her 1st New Hampshire endorsement for 2020.” Wow. Her first? She’s been popping in and out for weeks. Must be someone important to earn that headline? Nope.
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New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is running for President. But her polling in New Hampshire, like most of her competitors, could be a statistical rounding error. With two dozen (plus or minus) flavors of the same socialsim to choose from, she never had much hope.
And her first New Hampshire endorsement isn’t going to help.
Grafton New Hampshire House Rep Sue Ford. One of 400 State House Representatives. A statistical blip. A partisan rounding error. As is Ford’s opinion of the Constitution, the President is supposed to swear to defend.
The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance, which measures voting records against those two documents rated Sue Ford at 1.2 percent. So, 98.8% of the time Ford opposes limited government and the restraints placed on politicians and The State to protect its citizens from tyranny.
She’s definitely Gillibrand’s kind of Democrat. About as far left as you can get. But that makes her just about every Democrat candidate’s kind of Democrat. There’s almost nothing to differentiate them from each other except for name recognition. Gillibrand has some, but not enough.
She’s not Biden or Bernie or Buttegeig or Beto (who is flaming out).
Kamala Harris is the only Non-B Democrat with any traction, but Harris is more likely a VP candidate to offset handsy-old-white-man-Joe who is everything people hate about Washington. Democrats think he can beat Trump and that’s the only quality that matters. All other sins are forgiven on the left.
Gillibrand is a pale white northeastern Democrat without the money of a Clinton or the ground game. Bernie’s got his and Biden got Obama’s. Gillibrand has Sue Ford.
Not exactly a game changer.
| SF Gate
