Cenk Uygur drops long-shot presidential bid

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/06/24 6:33 PM ET


Progressive media personality Cenk Uygur told The Hill on Wednesday that he is ending his long-shot Democratic presidential bid.

“The Young Turks” host, who was born in Turkey and is therefore not eligible to become president due to the Constitution’s “Natural Born Citizen” Clause, had attempted to launch a legal battle to gain ballot access across the country.

“Look, we needed a couple of miracles,” Uygur said in a “The Young Turks” interview later Wednesday. “This was an act of desperation to try to change the course of this campaign because Biden I was positive was going to lose.”

Uygur acknowledged that his legal battle found little success, but he said the stage is set for future naturalized citizens who choose to challenge the presidential requirement. “I got caught trying,” he said. Uygur attacked Biden from the left during his campaign, warning that Biden could not defeat former President Trump in a 2024 election rematch.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/4514263-cenk-uygur-drops-long-shot-presidential-bid/

[JohnSJ]

1. Cenk Uygur is another con man. He wasn't a naturalized born citizen.

[Kennah]

18. SCOTUS says the states can't interfere

[jimfields33]

27. At the very least, I hope they at least follow that.

[AllyCat]

2. Well, why not. Only part of the constitution the GOP likes

Is the second amendment. All the rest of it is expendable to them.

Perhaps con man Uygur can find a home in the new GQP.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. I could see him becoming some type of 'libertarian'

Massive egos can swing wildly, yunno.

[._.]

3. -IF-

If Emperor Felonius makes it to November, which I doubt, Joe will stomp him. Hard.

[Kennah]

19. Emperor Felonius. Love this. Stealing.

[BaronChocula]

4. Dude n/t

[padah513]

5. Let's see. He's so convinced that President Biden can't win that he runs to take away votes and make sure he can't.

Got it.

[ShazzieB]

6. I knoe, right?

So, so stupid.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Yep. The logic of ego. (n/t)

[samnsara]

9. who?

[Vinca]

10. That was such a long shot I didn't even hear about it.

[DoBW]

11. Pluto would have been easier

more feasible to travel to another planet

[ificandream]

12. I'm not a fan of The Young Turks basically because the show is all about Uyger

For that reason, I didn't take his presidential (?) campaign seriously and I don't think anyone else did, either. Good riddance to it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. It was never a "long shot" bid.

As he was legally ineligible to be president, not being a natural born citizen.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. This asshole is not eligible to serve as POTUS under the constitution because he is foreign born

I was irked to see this asshole on the Texas ballot.

Link to tweet

[LiberalFighter]

15. I don't recognize anything he has to say to be worthwhile. Or anyone on his site.

Just as I didn't waste time listening to anyone on RT or anyone that had a spot on RT. Such as Ed Schultz and Jesse Ventura.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Thom Hartman was employed by RT also.

That hurts because I respected him.

[LiberalFighter]

21. I agree

[LudwigPastorius]

16. Fuck Cenk and his "Biden can't win" bullshit.

[PortTack]

20. So will he throw a fit like he did when his congressional bid ended poorly?

[jmowreader]

22. I don't get it

Why didn’t anyone tell him he couldn’t be president in the first place? Yeah, I know all about the 61st Amendment. I like the movie it was in but come on, it was only a movie. If he’d ran he’d have no more of a chance of being elected than Marvin the Martian…who, arguably, is more legally electable because he was born in California.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. He knew that but he was proceeding to "challenge" (in court) that Constitutional requirement

[Bucky]

28. When someone is in charge of an organization for a long time

It's hard to not lose perspective when there's no one around to challenge you and no one to account to.

This feeds into my theory about how so many independent business people turn into right-wing nut jobs.

[prodigitalson]

24. he's unbearable

[prodigitalson]

25. deleted

[marble falls]

26. I remember years ago, he used to be relevant. He forgot: Journalists present a take on the news ...

... not become part of the news.