Warren Surges in IA / "Biden campaign likely ends" - Nunes

[dukkha]

California Rep. Devin Nunes predicted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that Joe Biden's campaign is likely coming to an end -- all because of newly resurfaced reports about his possible misconduct in Ukraine that "first originated back when Hillary Clinton was trying to make sure Biden didn’t get in the race."

The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee made the claim as The Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll showed
Sen. Elizabeth Warren surging ahead of Biden as the first choice of 22 percent of the voters surveyed.
Biden was the first choice of 20 percent of the voters. Biden held a 9-point lead over Warren in the poll as recently as June.

Nunes, speaking to anchor Maria Bartiromo, said a whistleblower's allegation that President Trump had acted inappropriately during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will ultimately backfire, and shine a light on Biden's own possible misconduct. CNN later acknowledged that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the call, and a top Ukrainian official on Saturday defended Trump's actions.


"These stories first originated back when Hillary Clinton was trying to make sure Biden didn’t get in the race," Nunes said. "So now that these have been resurrected, I don’t know who came up with the scheme -- maybe this whistleblower really is not a partisan. We want to hear from that whistleblower, but it sure looks like the scheme has backfired. And, like I said, it looks like this is the end of Biden’s campaign. I really do... his lead is basically down to zero."

Late Sunday, Trump echoed Nunes' comments, and emphasized that Biden recently bragged about pressuring Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor when he was vice president. At the time, the prosecutor was probing a company closely linked to Biden's son, Hunter.

"Sleepy Joe Biden ... forced a tough prosecutor out from investigating his son's company by threat of not giving big dollars to Ukraine," Trump wrote on Twitter. "That's the real story!"

Nunes said the ever-deepening schism in the Democratic Party over whether to impeach the president -- highlighted late Saturday when New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it a major "scandal" that Democrats hadn't yet voted to impeach -- would help Trump in 2020.

"The more I think that they’re out there promoting this kind of craziness and silliness, the more that the American people are put off, and the more likely President Trump is reelected,” Nunes added.

There were parallels, Nunes said, with Democrats' ultimately debunked claims that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election

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"This has all the hallmarks of the Russia hoax," Nunes said. "Something leaks out. ... and then it's the same reporters that report on it, the same reporters that reported on the Russia hoax. Then you move forward, and what happens? Then supposedly they come and testify -- and the night before they testify, the whistleblower who supposedly doesn't want anybody to know who this person is, or what information they have, well, it's spilled all over the pages of the Washington Post" the day before Congress was briefed on the matter.

"Whoever came up with this scheme -- it looks like somebody was trying to deflect what Biden did back in 2015," Nunes said. "This scheme seems to have backfired on Biden. I mean, Biden's already dropping in the polls."
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...But the DNI general counsel said days later that, after consulting with the DOJ, the matter did not meet the legal definition of an “urgent concern," and was not subject to mandatory disclosure to Congress.

“Furthermore, because the complaint involves confidential and potentially privileged communications by persons outside the Intelligence Community, the DNI lacks unilateral authority to transmit such materials to the intelligence committees,”

Jason Klitenic, the DNI general counsel, wrote.

Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire will testify before the House Intelligence Committee at an open hearing on Thursday.

[Darth Omar]

Maybe, just maybe, the whistleblower was part of a set up on Trump’s behalf lol.

It explains the ‘lack of first hand knowledge’ aspect. If the whistleblower lacks first hand knowledge the claim is worthless. But we know, all too well, how the media will run with *anything* regardless of how well unsubstantiated it is—so long as Trump is the target.

If that’s the case, the whole thing was a ruse intended to expose Biden’s corruption and eliminate him from the race.

[StoneByStone]

Either way, I'm happy Biden is out. He'd definitely lose to Trump.

[Darth Omar]

Either way, I'm happy Biden is out. He'd definitely lose to Trump.

You think Hispanics will turn out in big numbers for a democrat socialist? Or what about moderate democrats?

[dukkha]

Maybe, just maybe, the whistleblower was part of a set up on Trump’s behalf lol.

It explains the ‘lack of first hand knowledge’ aspect. If the whistleblower lacks first hand knowledge the claim is worthless. But we know, all too well, how the media will run with *anything* regardless of how well unsubstantiated it is—so long as Trump is the target.

If that’s the case, the whole thing was a ruse intended to expose Biden’s corruption and eliminate him from the race.

WTF?? it was FAKE NEWS ( that the IG / staff /DOJ/ whistle blower -leaked) to the Vulture press who proceeded to eat it up dead or alive.
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Did you see ET? ( Schiff) going on about "crossing the Rubicon"

[Darth Omar]

WTF?? it was FAKE NEWS ( that the IG / staff /DOJ/ whistle blower -leaked) to the Vulture press who proceeded to eat it up dead or alive.
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Did you see ET? ( Schiff) going on about "crossing the Rubicon"

No, I don’t even bother with him.

[dukkha]

No, I don’t even bother with him.

he's plastered all over TVNewz with his bug eyed urges

[Darth Omar]

he's plastered all over TVNewz with his bug eyed urges

Good for bug eyes lol.

I actually consume very little TV news.

[StoneByStone]

You think Hispanics will turn out in big numbers for a democrat socialist? Or what about moderate democrats?

Yes, because people who have lived in an actual Marxist country understand the difference between Democratic Socialism and Marxist Socialist.

[Phantasmal]

Nunes what a joke. He’s predicted so many things that have never come to pass.

[dukkha]

Good for bug eyes lol.

I actually consume very little TV news.

i run it in the background when I'm not working and goofing around on my desktop.

Schiff has 0% credibility - but the Lame Stream puts him out there with his constant crap about "crossing the Rubicon"