Avenatti statement on NOT running in 2020

[PunkinPi]

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Please see my statement below regarding 2020.

Good.

[bearsfootball516]

1. Good choice.

That last paragraph though...yikes. Get on board or get off the ship.

[dalton99a]

2. k

[Gothmog]

3. Who is surprised by this?

Avanatti had no chance of being the nominee

[PunkinPi]

6. Not surprising, but glad he's out of the way, so real candidates get the attention. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I'm more than cool with that.

I admire Avenatti's guts as an attorney, and I am highly suspicious about the "controversy" that has enveloped him the past few eeks, but a Presidential candidacy on his part would be a total train wreck and only damage his reputation. I don't think he would go very far in the primaries regardless. Democrats aren't fooled by novelty acts.

He sticks to what he does best and I think that works out best for everyone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Looks like the clue bird finally shat on Avenatti's head.

"The party must immediately recognize that many of the likely candidates are not battletested [sic]"? So when did he get battle-tested? Engaging in high-profile litigation of civil cases (especially those you lose in pretrial motions) is not being battle-tested for a presidential campaign; Avenatti has never even run for a local park commission. But I'm glad he finally saw the handwriting on the wall and stopped strutting around pretending he had a snowball's chance in Hell of being nominated.

[WeekiWater]

7. The vetting process hasn't even started and it wasn't going well.

The guy is blinded by his own ego but is not a narcissist like Trump. Keep fighting Avenatti. Stop talking about Democrats with your completely empty assumptions that currently hold no merit.

[MineralMan]

8. A predictable decision. He's not stupid.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. But sometimes an out-of-control ego can make a smart person do stupid things.

It's good that someone or something managed to save him (and the Democratic Party) from himself.

[MineralMan]

11. Well, I can't imagine anyone really took him seriously as a

presidential candidate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I don't think the party PTB ever took him seriously

but he sure had his fanboys at DU.

[MineralMan]

14. Well, DUers aren't really big influencers, as a group.

[JudyM]

9. Good news. Best to have his no-holds-barred attacks directed only at rethugs.

[Eric J in MN]

13. What is the point of declaring that some likely

...candidates aren’t battle-tested without naming them?

The top 3 in the polls, Biden and Bernie and Beto O’Rourke have all won-and-lost elections, counting the 2008 primary re Biden.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Avenatti seems to think his largely quixotic litigation against Trump

qualifies him as battle-tested.

[Gothmog]

16. From the Hoarse Whisperer

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