New York President

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New York City is a great city. In several ways it is perhaps the greatest city in the world. Everyone must go there at least once in their lives. New York is also big and very diverse. That is how it is possible that four of the main (if not all) candidates for President are from New York. On the Republican side, Donald Trump is the epicentre of everything New York. No question about that. On the other side, Hillary Clinton was a Senator from New York while Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn, and he couldn't deny it. And now that it seems that Michael Bloomberg could join the race as an Independent, it can be declared that all the main candidates in 2016 are from New York. This is crazy, a country of 323 million people, will all choose their next president from one city. It's like a local election.

So what makes New York the perfect place for a candidate?

We are not sure. It may be the money and the winning atmosphere. Or all the famous and influential people you encounter there. Or the views. Those views inspire you for greatness. You know, and they are a concrete jungle that make your dreams come true after all. And for Ben & Jerry's, Brooklyn's Bernie Sanders was enough of an inspiration to create a new ice cream flavor. It was no secret that the company's owners have always loved Bernie, but all we need to know is from where we can order it?

Besides producing a lot of famous American politicians in the early years of the country like Martin van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland, New York has continued to provide them in recent years. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller

And more recently Al Franken, Mario Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani who also tried being president, and this cycle's George Pataki who was a three-term governor of the state, during 9/11. Speaking of George Pataki, he just endorsed Marco Rubio for President. This is a sign that the establishment may finally get around him. Although Lindsey Graham endorsed Bush. They really need to unite behind someone. And soon. 

Michael Bloomberg though won't run against clinton. He will only join the race if the nominees are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders respectively. He is friends with Hillary, and their views on many things are the same or very similar, so it wouldn't really work for him. But the Republicans sure would like him in the race anyways to split the votes on the left. While Bloomberg is very respected,  among Republicans too, he is an older white men man, very rich and Jewish and from New York. Much of the country don't necessarily hate this type, they just can't really connect with them, so it would be hard to see him win many votes. 

He does represent all those New York values that Ted Cruz was talking about.

In other news, Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a fiery speech in Congress two days ago. In it, she lashed out against corruption and greed, and urged her colleagues to take actions, because the country is going down a dangerous path. In many ways she is right. What this speech also proved is that she will definitely not endorse Hillary Clinton for President, well certainly not in the primary race against Sanders. Her speech could have easily been given by Senator Sanders. While all the other female senators endorsed Hillary, Warren's endorsement could mean everything to Bernie. Especially just before Iowa and New Hampshire. And many people are now speculating that ultimately she won't only endorse Bernie, but will be his running mate. A Sanders-Warren ticket? Dream come true. That might actually be the first Democrat ticket that we would endorse.

And where is Senator Warren from? Yeap, you guessed it right. New England. She has been a senator from Massachusetts since 2013. So even if it is not strictly about New York, but New England, it is still surprising. After 250 years of the United States, this tiny portion of the country is still the most influential. And many people hate them. Talk about inequality.

In the meanwhile, Hillary's camp is growing ever more frustrated. They have long lost New Hampshire, and they know it too. But now even in Iowa they are behind Bernie Sanders, albeit by only 0.2%. So hey could very well loose this state too. While it is true that they do have a decent lead in South Carolina and Nevada, once Bernie wins the first two contests, voters in the next two contests will see that he can actually win, and many will switch side.

Deja vu 2008. Au revoir Hillary.

Clinton's message is failing, and she is not responding well to the rise of Bernie Sanders. She is not addressing the problems in the country that allowed for Bernie's rise. She is only attacking him. This is not problem solving, and will lead to no good. This was very apparent in this week's CNN Presidential Town Hall Meeting. We learned nothing new, in terms of substance. What we did learn is that Clinton is nervous and that she still can't properly answer about her emails. If she would just come up with something already, people could move on. But no.

It is also very sketchy how she managed to get the release date of her latest emails delayed - way beyond Iowa and New Hampshire's voting day. This is not fair, people should be allowed to see them before they go into their voting booths.

Bernie Sanders though has a great opportunity to cement Iowa. On Wednesday he is meeting with President Obama in the White House. This will be great optics for him. Propaganda all the way. Although that may seem to socialist. Anyways, Hillary has been pounding him on having so many opposing views from Obama, while making sure to remind voters that she pretty much is Obama 2.0. But when Iowa viewers see Sanders smiling next to Obama 3 days before voting, it may be enough for them to choose Bernie over Hillary. 

The timing of this meeting is very interesting. Just earlier this week, Obama was praising Hillary in an interview. Although he did have nice things to say about Bernie too. But everyone knows that in the White House, Bernie's biggest fan is Joe Biden. But if Obama likes him too, that will mean a lot.

We can only imagine Hillary's nightmares now.

On the Republican side, the candidates are preparing for their last debate before voting. Trump is still ahead of course. By a lot. But as of now, he won't attend the debate because of Megyn Kelly. Will it hurt him? Probably not. But Rand Paul will be back on the main stage now. And it will be interesting to see what the candidates can do without Trump. This could be Cruz's last shot in regaining his momentum in Iowa. Though Rick Perry just endorsed him, so that should help. But with Trump not being there, will enough people watch it? And what will Trump be doing?

P.S.

Fun fact, Senator Warren was born on the same day in the same year as Meryl Streep. We think that automatically entitles the greatest living actress to play some important role in Politics, whether on the screen or in real life. We already know that she was a great Margaret Thatcher.

This is an original material of Finchley 1959.