this event also gave the candidates a chance to show off their organizing stripes, which is going to be so critical heading into these caucuses. you had the campaigns assemble their supporters, trying to be loud with the thunder sticks. some of the loudest and most enthusiastic were elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg s supporters. kamala harris s team in the yellow t-shirts, cory booker s team with these giant light-up signs. but there was one big surprise just a few hours before that dinner kicked off. as you mentioned earlier, it was beto o rourke dropping out of the 2020 race. in fact there were actually lawn signs outside of this event. i remember walking by a concession stand and seeing a beto o rourke digital ad that was still running in the concourse there. but yet right before that dinner, he announced that he was going to go ahead and end his campaign. but the campaign still continues for so many of the other candidates. it s going to be a jam-packed day, there an forum.
he thinks he s just the best candidate, then it makes it much harder to get those volunteers and so the new york times article had some great moments of biden snapping at young aides saying, where are we going and where are we going because, you know, he doesn t seem like he has his heart in it as much as one would like. he does seem to have lost a step if you talk to people even his own donors are telling me that. you wonder how much of this is biden wanting to run and how much of it is the democratic establishment wanting to have a candidate that is from their perspective also i m not sure they still put lawn signs up in presidential races. virtual. they re virtual lawn signs. we can ask the biden campaign. i will get the number of lawn signs please do. all the facebook and twitter ads we re bombarded with, i think lawn ads are a thing of the past. i always love driving down a suburban street down an election
going anywhere. so for him this is kind of like a no lose scenario. you can run for governor and if you get it then you can appoint your successor, and if not then you can just continue being senator. so to manchin it seems like this might be a good idea, although he hasn t made up his mind yet. seems like a why not situation. exactly. let s get back to biden here and some of the reporting that we ve seen in the new york times from this. how might this reported lack of enthusiasm hurt him in the 2020 race? well, to have to win to actually win an election you need volunteers who are amp up, ready to work hard and take time away from their jobs to actually go door to door, put up lawn signs and everything. if biden doesn t seem like he actually even wants to be president and is just doing this as a pro forma thing or because
robert mended dez and robert hugh again. the close race isn t part part a result of menendez s behavior while in office. court documents say specific allegations that menendez and a donor had with an underage in the dominican republic several years ago. he strongly contests those allegations. it is centered on favors that he performed for a donor that let him ride on his private plane, paid for expensive hotel rooms in paris and gave him access to a private plane and contributed generously to the campaign. federal prosecutors then failed to convict him successfully on those charges mostly because the supreme court narrowed the standards for what constitutes bribery in america. earlier today, video of menendez supporters ripping out lawn signs surfaced on the internet. here it is. i don t live here. i don t care.
incumbent robertt menendez and republican businessman bob keegan. federal court documents describe specific allegations that he had with dominican. prosecutes pursued a bribery case against senator menendez, paid for expensive hotel rooms in p paris, and of course contributed generally to the campaigns. federal prosecutors failed to convict him successfully on those charges mostly because the supreme court narrowed the standards for what constitutes bribery in america. earlier today, video of menendez supporters ripping out lawn signs surfaced on the internet. you don t live here.