Bernie is shifting into the phase where he does everything in his power to reelect Trump. He started today. He held a special 1 pm news conference just to attack Joe Biden and let everyone know he's going to continue campaigning and inflicting his insufferable persona on us for a little while longer.
Bernie honestly behaves a whole lot like a Russian asset. Constantly attacking "the Establishment" and anyone with pragmatic, achievable goals. I'm not saying he definitely is a Russian asset, but he certainly acts like one. He's also ducked at least two sanctions vote on Russian oligarchs since 2016, and he actually voted against Russian sanctions once as well.
I don't know if he likes oligarchs or just Russian ones?
I think this comment is a little too hard on Bernie. On the positive side, I think he helped pull both democrats and some independents toward the progressive agenda. Good evidence is Biden's current positions (and the same was true with Bloomberg's positions). I think Bernie and his team are very disappointed and frustrated. And, this is now showing, so they are attacking Biden, which will likely have the opposite effect of what they intend. Sad!
Also, we need to welcome current and previous Bernie supporters in order to unite the party to elect Biden and flip the senate blue. And, to that end, tell them that we appreciate their efforts in moving dems and independents toward a more progressive agenda.
Perhaps it's time that Democrats take a stand with Bernie Sanders: We ain't buying your resentment or your socialism. Journalists need to just stop giving him an echo chamber...he's just so much "blah, blah, blah."
I personally know of more than a dozen people who wouldn't vote for Hillary and voted against her in the primaries, going for Sanders. In the general election, most of my friends voted for Jill Stein or wrote in a name.
The disinformation in 2016 was overwhelming and it wasn't helped at all by then-Congressman Jason Chaffetz's rabid "oversight" of Clinton's involvement in Benghazi. That was a never-ending piece of oversight and seeing how the Trump administration does business, she should have just declined to participate.
Some of my military friends just couldn't get over Clinton's misuse of classified email. That was another bit of a never-ending story, and certainly not at all helped with Comey's public announcement that the email case had been reopened because of information found on Anthony Weiner's computer, flying in the face of every protocol the FBI and Justice Department had.
Eleven days before the general election.
People were also put off because of the airport meeting of Bill Clinton and the then-Attorney General... always so sure there was something hinky going on.
And Hillary Clinton never helped herself. She never had a vision of how her administration was going to help the American people. She just wanted to be president. Her "basket-full-of-deplorables" comment didn't help either. In one soundbite, she wrote off the white, working class.
One thing you can say about Joe: he'll never write off the white, working class. I think that was shown last night in Michigan.
For all of Joe Biden's faults and weaknesses, he engenders a sense of trust... along with the belief in his decency.
If the Hunter Biden investigation by the Senate can be countered by those who just want to beat Trump, we'll be okay. (Perhaps Mayor Pete can take on that fight?)
I will always be grateful to Senator Klobuchar and Mayor Pete for suspending their campaigns after the South Carolina primary and then for their strong endorsements of the former vice president. That was the moment, the tipping point, and it was only reinforced when Senator Warren dropped out shortly afterward.
I personally supported all three of the above candidates. I love Elizabeth Warren for her plans and her persistence. I admire Mayor Pete's eloquence and appreciate his military service. And I just think Amy Klobuchar would have made an excellent president.
I also believe they will doggedly work to elect Joe Biden. The alternative is just unbearable to think of.
Bernie, your ideas are mostly okay and I can understand why the young voters would feel so passionate about your candidacy; however, the big lift is defeating Trump and from the election results so far, the math is against you.
A wiser man would bow out of the race and work unselfishly and whole-heartedly to elect the nominee. He'd urge his passionate followers to do so as well... modeling the kind of democratic behavior that wins elections.
Most important of John’s point: “They want, in other words, what Bernie Sanders was selling them. They just don’t want to buy it from Sanders. Why? Because those things, as of right now, are less important than defeating Trump.” I agree 100%.
I mailed in my FL ballot 2 days ago, and voted for Biden, my 4th choice. Warren was my 1st choice. In choosing between Sanders and Biden, I was mainly motivated by my desire to flip the senate blue. With Sanders at the top of the ticket, flipping the senate seats blue in Arizona, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, and now Montana (with Bullock just announcing) would be effectively impossible, in my view. We would also lose Doug Jones’ senate seat in Alabama.
If we don’t flip the senate blue, we get 4 more years of Mitch McConnell’s senate, and we can forget about passing any legislation to address health care, inequality, and climate change . . .
Bernie is shifting into the phase where he does everything in his power to reelect Trump. He started today. He held a special 1 pm news conference just to attack Joe Biden and let everyone know he's going to continue campaigning and inflicting his insufferable persona on us for a little while longer.
Bernie honestly behaves a whole lot like a Russian asset. Constantly attacking "the Establishment" and anyone with pragmatic, achievable goals. I'm not saying he definitely is a Russian asset, but he certainly acts like one. He's also ducked at least two sanctions vote on Russian oligarchs since 2016, and he actually voted against Russian sanctions once as well.
I don't know if he likes oligarchs or just Russian ones?
I think this comment is a little too hard on Bernie. On the positive side, I think he helped pull both democrats and some independents toward the progressive agenda. Good evidence is Biden's current positions (and the same was true with Bloomberg's positions). I think Bernie and his team are very disappointed and frustrated. And, this is now showing, so they are attacking Biden, which will likely have the opposite effect of what they intend. Sad!
Also, we need to welcome current and previous Bernie supporters in order to unite the party to elect Biden and flip the senate blue. And, to that end, tell them that we appreciate their efforts in moving dems and independents toward a more progressive agenda.
Perhaps it's time that Democrats take a stand with Bernie Sanders: We ain't buying your resentment or your socialism. Journalists need to just stop giving him an echo chamber...he's just so much "blah, blah, blah."
I personally know of more than a dozen people who wouldn't vote for Hillary and voted against her in the primaries, going for Sanders. In the general election, most of my friends voted for Jill Stein or wrote in a name.
The disinformation in 2016 was overwhelming and it wasn't helped at all by then-Congressman Jason Chaffetz's rabid "oversight" of Clinton's involvement in Benghazi. That was a never-ending piece of oversight and seeing how the Trump administration does business, she should have just declined to participate.
Some of my military friends just couldn't get over Clinton's misuse of classified email. That was another bit of a never-ending story, and certainly not at all helped with Comey's public announcement that the email case had been reopened because of information found on Anthony Weiner's computer, flying in the face of every protocol the FBI and Justice Department had.
Eleven days before the general election.
People were also put off because of the airport meeting of Bill Clinton and the then-Attorney General... always so sure there was something hinky going on.
And Hillary Clinton never helped herself. She never had a vision of how her administration was going to help the American people. She just wanted to be president. Her "basket-full-of-deplorables" comment didn't help either. In one soundbite, she wrote off the white, working class.
One thing you can say about Joe: he'll never write off the white, working class. I think that was shown last night in Michigan.
For all of Joe Biden's faults and weaknesses, he engenders a sense of trust... along with the belief in his decency.
If the Hunter Biden investigation by the Senate can be countered by those who just want to beat Trump, we'll be okay. (Perhaps Mayor Pete can take on that fight?)
I will always be grateful to Senator Klobuchar and Mayor Pete for suspending their campaigns after the South Carolina primary and then for their strong endorsements of the former vice president. That was the moment, the tipping point, and it was only reinforced when Senator Warren dropped out shortly afterward.
I personally supported all three of the above candidates. I love Elizabeth Warren for her plans and her persistence. I admire Mayor Pete's eloquence and appreciate his military service. And I just think Amy Klobuchar would have made an excellent president.
I also believe they will doggedly work to elect Joe Biden. The alternative is just unbearable to think of.
Bernie, your ideas are mostly okay and I can understand why the young voters would feel so passionate about your candidacy; however, the big lift is defeating Trump and from the election results so far, the math is against you.
A wiser man would bow out of the race and work unselfishly and whole-heartedly to elect the nominee. He'd urge his passionate followers to do so as well... modeling the kind of democratic behavior that wins elections.
Most important of John’s point: “They want, in other words, what Bernie Sanders was selling them. They just don’t want to buy it from Sanders. Why? Because those things, as of right now, are less important than defeating Trump.” I agree 100%.
I mailed in my FL ballot 2 days ago, and voted for Biden, my 4th choice. Warren was my 1st choice. In choosing between Sanders and Biden, I was mainly motivated by my desire to flip the senate blue. With Sanders at the top of the ticket, flipping the senate seats blue in Arizona, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, and now Montana (with Bullock just announcing) would be effectively impossible, in my view. We would also lose Doug Jones’ senate seat in Alabama.
If we don’t flip the senate blue, we get 4 more years of Mitch McConnell’s senate, and we can forget about passing any legislation to address health care, inequality, and climate change . . .
FYI: Amy Klobuchar was my 2nd choice.