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Analysis: Nancy Pelosi Is Giving Joe Biden A Leg Up Before Iowa

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she would be sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate next week.

Pelosi’s announcement came more than three weeks after the House formally voted to impeach President Donald Trump.

Pelosi is sending over the articles of impeachment without securing any of the concessions she demanded from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — concessions she insisted were a prerequisite for sending the articles.

But her delay in starting the impeachment process will have accomplished one thing: taking Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts off the presidential campaign trail right before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

Regardless of whether or not it was Pelosi’s intention, her otherwise-fruitless delay in sending the articles to the Senate will have sidelined the two most anti-establishment Democratic candidates at a crucial point in the primary.

Sanders is currently leading the field in both Iowa and New Hampshire, while Warren is hovering around the 15% threshold for receiving delegates in both states, according to RealClearPolitics’ polling averages.

Taking both senators off the campaign trail would give an advantage to former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, both of whom are in contention to win Iowa and New Hampshire, and neither of whom are as far to the left as Sanders and Warren.

“Of course it matters,” Warren told Politico of being stuck in Washington, D.C., while other candidates are campaigning. “We just did a 3½-hour selfie line. Don’t tell me it doesn’t matter to do face to face.”

The Senate trial is estimated to last between two and six weeks. (Former President Bill Clinton’s Senate impeachment trial, for reference, lasted five weeks.)

Assuming the trial begins next week, even if the process lasts two weeks, that will keep Sanders and Warren largely contained to Washington, D.C., until days before the caucuses begin.

If the trial lasts three weeks or longer, Sanders and Warren are likely to still be in the nation’s capital on the day of the caucuses. A four-week trial would almost certainly cause the two senators to miss the New Hampshire primaries as well.

Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Michael Bennett of Colorado would also be stuck in Washington, but none of them are currently among the frontrunners.

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  1. 30.8% of Iowans own guns. Creepy Joe gives them speeches about his gun control. If Joe wins Iowa, we can be fairly certain that democrats in Iowa don’t own guns. That’s a really good thing for the rest of Iowa!

  2. Few not one the Left have ever agreed with Speaker Pelosi’s policies, ideology or actions in office…or, for that matter, in her private life when on considers the financial gains her husband and she have achieved while she is in office. But no thinking person would ever think that anything that this talented women does is without thought or purpose. A good presumption would be that of the current choices for the Democrat nomination for President, Mr. Biden is the one that would pose the least danger to re-election of Democrat office holders to the House of Representatives. Ignore her words of praise; words mean little…or nothing. Any nominee other than Biden insures that a multitude of Democrat voters stay home. So…now we know the real purpose of the holding up delivery of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. Biden may fail; he has a tendency to engage mouth before starting brain. But Ms. Pelosi will have done all she can to save her majority in the House of Representatives.

  3. I have posted this several times and find it not only to be amusing but relevant

    MIT announces the discovery of the densest element known to science. This new discovery has been named Pelosium

    Pelosium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.

    These particles are held together by dark forces called MORONS which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

    The symbol of Pelosium is PU.

    Pelosium’s mass actually increases over time, as morons randomly interact with various elements in the atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons within the Pelosium molecule, leading to the formation of isodopes.

    This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientist to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass. When catalyzed with money, Pelosium activates CNNadnausium, an element that radiates orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent noise, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons as Pelosium.

    Schumerium Symbol (CS) with an atomic mass of 310 is similar to Pelosium and like Pelosium has lost most of its density and will soon decay into another useless isodope known to the scientific community as Reidium. Reidium (DHR) atomic number of 300 has reached its half life and is decaying into nothingness creating a black hole.

    Pelosium, Schumerium, and Reidium are dense compounds that make up the bulk of the deadliest substances known to man LIEBERALISM COMMUNISM and SOCIALISM. Incidental contact with any of these toxic lethal substances causes brain damage and if not promptly and correctly treated is fatal!

    Unfortunately the duration of the residual effects of Pelosium, Schumerium, and Reidium are unknown at this time. Scientists have determined that a prolonged and intense decontamination period (several decades) is needed to eradicate and reverse all traces of these deadly compounds!!!

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