The Daily Show: Steve Bullock - Running for President as a Progressive with Bipartisan Appeal

[Rhiannon12866]

Democratic presidential candidate and Montana Governor Steve Bullock discusses his progressive ideologies and his willingness to listen to rather than condemn conservatives.

[Garrett78]

1. He's still running? Good grief.

Run for the Senate. I know it's a dysfunctional body and shouldn't even exist (the late John Dingell was right), but run for the Senate anyway, Steve.

[JI7]

2. while he is low in polls he has a better chance than most others running

of getting the lower income working class white men supporting Biden . Beto is the other one.

so he may be sticking around to see if Biden goes down.

[Garrett78]

3. Nobody who wasn't on stage tonight has a chance.

Black folks will determine who our nominee will be. If Biden loses Iowa and New Hampshire, someone other than Biden has a great shot at winning South Carolina (and going on to have a very good Super Tuesday). Bullock will be out of the race long before we get to that point. Same with Tim Ryan, Michael Bennet, etc.

Even if Biden were to leave the race tomorrow, Bullock wouldn't stand a chance. Inslee had a better chance than Bullock and he had enough sense to drop out.

[JI7]

8. Inslee dropped out because he is going to run for Governor again

Bullock is term limited from running for Governor again. He should run for Senate but keeps insisting he does not want it.

[Garrett78]

9. Yes, Bullock should run for Senate, as absurd as that body is.

I can understand someone not wanting to run for Senate, but I wish Bullock would anyway. Having both Montana Senators be Democrats would be pretty amazing.

If Inslee had thought he had a chance to become POTUS, he wouldn't have dropped out. You can't successfully run as (or be perceived as) a single issue candidate. Not when pretty much every other candidate agrees with your position on the issue and would address the issue in more or less the same way (with the same impediments) as POTUS.

[JI7]

10. being Senator would give him higher national profile

if he wants to run for president in the future.

[Celerity]

4. his best interview yet, a damn shame he will not make nay more debates, so hope he changes his

mind and runs for the Senate, as he is our only chance in Montana. That said, I could SO see him as a POTUS too, he has that 'it' factor.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I like him a lot, too - He has the right ideas and he has experience working with the opposition

But he has said that he's not interested in running for Senate since he prefers an "executive" job. I agree that we sure could use him!

[crazytown]

6. he prefers an "executive" job

Yeah who needs the Senate anyway?

[Celerity]

7. I am hoping he is influenced by Hickenlooper (only in terms of changing his mind about running for

Senate, just NOT influenced by Hickenlooper's large embrace of fracking and fossil fuels, nor Hickenlooper's abhorrent comparing of progressive Democrats to Stalin and Marx, and his saying universal healthcare is 'dangerous for the American people' lolol.)