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Mike Gravel has filed to run for president but intends to drop out after debates, campaign says
Fox News ^ | April 2 2019 | Frank Miles

Posted on 04/02/2019 11:43:15 PM PDT by knighthawk

Former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, 88, has filed to run for president -- but apparently has no intention of winning, the Democrat's campaign team told Fox News on Tuesday.

Gravel’s Twitter account posted, “It. Is. On. Sen. Mike Gravel has officially filed to run for president. Our only aim is pushing the field left by appearing in the Democratic debates. Donate as little as you like, but help us get to the necessary 65k donors! Official launch is April 8.”

The announcement came a month after college-age fans eager to push the party further to the left started boosting the longshot candidate's Twitter cred. Gravel has not run for president since 2008, and he hasn’t been a senator since 1981.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; alaska; democrats; election2020; mikegravel
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"the senator is planning to drop out after that and endorse the most progressive candidate"

The socialist agenda is pushed ahead!

1 posted on 04/02/2019 11:43:15 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

How did anyone vote for this guy in the first place?


2 posted on 04/02/2019 11:46:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Reno89519

How did anyone vote for this guy in the first place?
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It’s from not wearing a hat in Alaska.


3 posted on 04/03/2019 12:00:16 AM PDT by o-n-money
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, 88, has filed to run... “It. Is. On. Sen. Mike Gravel has officially filed to run for president. Our only aim is pushing the field left by appearing in the Democratic debates. Donate as little as you like, but help us get to the necessary 65k donors! Official launch is April 8.” ...Gravel has not run for president since 2008, and he hasn’t been a senator since 1981.
When he ran in 2008, he ran with an ambiguous party affiliation. Y'iknow, like McCain also did.

4 posted on 04/03/2019 12:16:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: knighthawk

88 and he wants to make sure he does all he can to **** up the country before he dies.


5 posted on 04/03/2019 12:19:06 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Rastus

Yeah well maybe he’ll have a stroke before then and if all he can do is slur he’ll make as much sense as all the other folks up there.

that POS

Because when you’re not too many years away from meeting your maker, you want to make sure to REALLY piss him off by pushing infanticide.


6 posted on 04/03/2019 12:30:49 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: knighthawk

This wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with pocketing campaign contributions, would it?


7 posted on 04/03/2019 1:05:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: knighthawk
Mike Gravel campaign ad from 2008 election
8 posted on 04/03/2019 1:06:16 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Socialism is a war crime against one's own people." -- tinyowl on 03/11/2019)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Old dude is shittin’ down his pant leg
...onto the Gravel, er, I mean gravel.


9 posted on 04/03/2019 1:51:58 AM PDT by Sivad (Demo M/O = infiltrate, overtake, politicize, weaponize)
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To: knighthawk

Good plan. Today’s socialists are already as anti-Jewish as their national socialist and soviet socialist brothers from the 1930s. They just need to fully embrace all of their big-government totalitarian history and they will be ready for a second try at permanent and absolute power.


10 posted on 04/03/2019 2:05:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Ping.


11 posted on 04/03/2019 2:15:51 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: knighthawk

How much further left can the current pool of candidates get? Is the wealth going to be redistributed so much it circles back into the wealthy’s pockets?


12 posted on 04/03/2019 2:53:49 AM PDT by jarwulf
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To: Ciaphas Cain

He bears an uncanny resemblance to John Brennan. Probably thinks the same too.


13 posted on 04/03/2019 2:58:27 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: knighthawk

Our only aim is pushing the field left by appearing in the Democratic debates.

Why? To get the Dems left 0f Pol Pot?


14 posted on 04/03/2019 3:52:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: knighthawk

Too bad we have Trump again otherwise we could have ran Thad Cochran against him! /s


15 posted on 04/03/2019 5:28:34 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: Flick Lives

“Why? To get the Dems left 0f Pol Pot?”

There just about there now.

L


16 posted on 04/03/2019 5:30:49 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: knighthawk

Quick. Let’s all send him a dollar.

L


17 posted on 04/03/2019 5:32:09 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: knighthawk

I’d say he faces a rough road.
Last time at least you had to have a certain level of support in the polls to get in.
No fool like an old fool.


18 posted on 04/03/2019 6:06:18 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Yet another backbencher idiot surfaces. Like a **** floating in a ceramic “bowl”.


19 posted on 04/03/2019 6:27:26 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: knighthawk

Who? Gravel? Before my time...when I hit 35, I might have to run for president as a Dem, to put some sanity back into the party, but I might lose...


20 posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:55 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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