Michael Avenatti Is Going To Be President
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Avenatti went to Iowa to stick a toe in the water of the 2020 presidential campaign. He has publicly stated that he will run for president if no other Democrat appears who he believes can beat Donald Trump in two years. By that, I believe Avenatti means just about every Democrat. I think he wants to run, both because he sees Trump is a disaster for the country, but also because he likes the attention and acclaim and excitement of constantly being in the forefront. Sound familiar?
Trump has attacked everyone under the sun that dares criticize him or disagree with him, and his desire to fight back or counterpunch is often said to be one of his defining characteristics. Avenatti has been openly deriding Trump in national media for months now, and yet I havent seen a peep from Trump about Avenatti. Np "low IQ Michael", no "little Mikey" from Trump about Avenatti. I suspect Trump senses he has met his match as a blowhard instigator. Avenatti is actually more than a match for Trump though, simply because he is much smarter than Trump.
How could Avenatti win and actually become president?
Trump is going to get MUCH worse over the next two years, should he survive and not be impeached or forced to resign before then. It may seem to many Democrats that they will then need their own "Trump" , to defeat him by fire with fire. Avenatti would be a Democratic party populist, saying he is for the little guy, the forgotten American that Trump failed to properly represent. He would present Democrat policies as populist, from medicare for all to higher taxes on the rich. As this populism caught on within the Democratic base other prominent Democrats would line up behind Avenatti. He would be the left's version of Donald Trump, only younger, more honest, and more intelligent.
Do I want to see him become president? Not really, but if the time comes and he is the way to rid the world of Trumpism, then by all means go right ahead.
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CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Michael Avenatti, fresh off his declaration that he may run for president in 2020 , used his first big speech as a prospective candidate to call on the Democratic Party to reject Michelle Obama’s oft-quoted advice about President Trump and his allies: “When they go low, we go high.”
Mr. Avenatti, the hard-charging lawyer who represents the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, did not once mention the former first lady in his keynote speech Friday night at the Democratic Wing Ding, a party fund-raiser in northern Iowa. But there was no mistaking his meaning.
“We must be a party that fights fire with fire,” Mr. Avenatti said to cheers from the audience, his voice rising. “When they go low, I say hit back harder.”
He received a thunderous ovation at the end of his speech, notably louder than the applause for the night’s other speakers, including Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio as well as Representative John Delaney of Maryland, who is running for president.
At times, his language verged on apocalyptic. The Democratic Party, he said, is “fighting for no less than the survival of our republic,” and doing so against “a man that wants to turn back the hands of time, to send us back to the Dark Ages.”
In such a fight, he continued, “we must honestly ask ourselves whether those that we fight for can afford our gentleness.”It is a message in keeping with the work that has made Mr. Avenatti a boldface name: his alliance with Ms. Clifford, who claims to have had an affair with Mr. Trump and is suing the president’s onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
As Ms. Clifford’s lawyer, Mr. Avenatti has adopted the president’s brash manner and some of his tactics. He has a similar instinct for using the news media to his advantage; he seems always to be on one cable news show or another. His Twitter feed is sometimes combative, sometimes coy, virtually always provocative — an example of the tack he is now urging the Democratic Party to take.
There was a certain tension, however, in his speech, which mingled calls to arms with calls for Democrats to reach out compassionately to Trump voters whose support for the president may be wavering. Democrats should think of such voters “not as evildoers but as victims of a great con,” he said. “Decent people get conned all the time, and let’s face it, Trump is a very good con man.”
He also devoted part of his roughly 20-minute address to political platitudes. At times, it became abundantly clear that he was trying, at least to some extent, to recast himself from pugnacious lawyer to palatable politician. He talked about “good-paying jobs” and about giving people “a real shot at a real American dream.” He talked about saving Roe v. Wade. He listed some standard items on the Democratic platform: equal pay. Women’s rights. Gay rights. He ended by declaring that the people would “make America decent again.”
But it was when talking about political combat that he was most enthusiastic, and visibly most in his element.
Want peace? he asked the audience. “We must be willing to do battle to achieve it.”
Fuckin' A Michael! I'm sick of taking the high road against Trump. How about the press start asking the warthog questions like: "How can you work for a total piece of shit like Trump, Sarah?" or "Why do you lie for that demented, babbling idiot, Trump?" We need to all start calling a spade a spade.
I agree, screw taking the so called high road. Get down in the dirt and rip their balls off.
yeah it was, just following up on what the right wingers state, fair is fair.
The GOP rewrote the rules, fair game bitch.
You're going to have a hard time persuading the leftists to come out of their safe spaces and take off their safety pins and pussy costumes.
Why would the righties want to tear off Hillary balls. Are they missing their own...
What if I told you that the right wing and the left wing belong to the same bird...Shocking isn't it Dean. Pussies, safety pins and whining on the right...LMAO
"“We must be a party that fights fire with fire,”"
Hahahahaha !
Now That's funny !
Democrats have been fighting against "Words" with "FIRE" for the last 10 years now.
EXISTENCE! Time to embrace Maxine Waters and Socialism! LMFAOOOOO!!!!! Keep up the good work Mike! Show everyone what the Democratic party is all about!
Just like the Neo-Nazis show everyone what the GOP is all about?
Sounds like a line from a movie, spoken just before matching off to be slaughtered in battle... speaking of movies, I do not see Hollywood elite nor the entertainment industry, 'except one' supporting Avenatti's candidacy .. I could be wrong..
Would not an Avenatti run for president be akin to attempting to replace one [so called] conman & grifter with another conman grifter?
Oh please Democrats, please run these radical leftists who want to emulate Venezuela
Avenatti should do very well against trump. He's got some Trump like qualities but he's a lot smarter.
The American people do not want your full socialism
Interesting.. would you vote for Avenatti?
I sincerely find it hard to believe that you would vote for him, but if that may be the case .. then I tend to think that all of the railing against Trump is phony outrage .. seems as if Trump were smarter, his conman, grifting, lieing etc .. would be okay (?) Thought the goal was to get a candidate 'qualified' to be president, not a replacement cut from the same cloth as the current president - only smarter.
I think that Avenatti is many times more honest than Trump is. If it turns out that he is not and he is the liar that trump is, I would be in a bind who to vote for. I dont think that is going to turn out to be the case though.
I also think that a more traditional politician is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2020.
Actually they do, they just don't want to admit it or call it socialism.
I am hoping this the scenario..
In the past 3 presidential elections I have voted 'none of the above' .. I would really like to have a candidate running for President that I could get behind and root for...
Avennati is nothing more than a creepy porn lawyer.
No you wouldn't. You would vote for absolutely ANYTHING with a D behind their name.
Avenatti is on time to tell the Democratic Party to get serious and select a 'winner-figher,' even if it means considering giving him a "look see."
Fuck that. What qualifications does this dude have? I mean, aside from being a headline grabbing celeb lawyer.
"not even a chance"