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Howard Schultz Bombs at SXSW: 'You Don't Like That?'
Source: Daily Beast
Howard Schultz Bombs at SXSW: ‘You Don’t Like That?’
The independent candidate struggled to generate any enthusiasm whatsoever in his pitch to SXSW Saturday morning.
Matt Wilstein
03.09.19 11:53 AM ET
AUSTIN, Texas—Howard Schultz, the independent presidential candidate who can’t manage to tweet without getting ratio’d, made his pitch to South by Southwest on Saturday morning.
There are lines for everything at SXSW and Schultz’s “featured session” was no exception. When NBC News’ Dylan Byers opened by suggesting that the general reception to his 2020 campaign launch has been “unfavorable,” the former Starbucks CEO asked, “You think it’s been unfavorable?” to polite chuckles in the room. He then essentially dodged that question to make his generic stump speech about a “lack of leadership” in America and “dysfunctional” two-party system.
Byers followed up by noting that the lines for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, both of whom would be speaking at SXSW later in the day, would be a lot longer than his. Schultz called those two women “well-intentioned,” but then started to explain why he believes the Green New Deal is an unrealistic goal.
“You can’t try to solve one extreme with another,” he said, referring to both Trump and the Democratic Party. He previously called Ocasio-Cortez “un-American,” but now seemed to back off that view when he said, “They love the country. They have their core beliefs. But you have to ask them, is any of this possible?”
The independent candidate struggled to generate any enthusiasm whatsoever in his pitch to SXSW Saturday morning.
Matt Wilstein
03.09.19 11:53 AM ET
AUSTIN, Texas—Howard Schultz, the independent presidential candidate who can’t manage to tweet without getting ratio’d, made his pitch to South by Southwest on Saturday morning.
There are lines for everything at SXSW and Schultz’s “featured session” was no exception. When NBC News’ Dylan Byers opened by suggesting that the general reception to his 2020 campaign launch has been “unfavorable,” the former Starbucks CEO asked, “You think it’s been unfavorable?” to polite chuckles in the room. He then essentially dodged that question to make his generic stump speech about a “lack of leadership” in America and “dysfunctional” two-party system.
Byers followed up by noting that the lines for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, both of whom would be speaking at SXSW later in the day, would be a lot longer than his. Schultz called those two women “well-intentioned,” but then started to explain why he believes the Green New Deal is an unrealistic goal.
“You can’t try to solve one extreme with another,” he said, referring to both Trump and the Democratic Party. He previously called Ocasio-Cortez “un-American,” but now seemed to back off that view when he said, “They love the country. They have their core beliefs. But you have to ask them, is any of this possible?”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/howard-schultz-bombs-at-sxsw-you-dont-like-that
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