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Credit where it's due. Sen. Sanders
Bernie Sanders, seeking peace with Joe Biden, asks his own delegates to turn down the volume
By Sean Sullivan
May 20, 2020 at 6:32 p.m. EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose delegates staged a raucous rebellion against Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic convention, is trying to engineer a different outcome this year by turning down the volume on his social media-driven army of 2020 delegates.
The Vermont senators campaign has told some supporters picked to represent him this year to sign agreements barring attacks on other candidates or party leaders, combative confrontations on social media or talking to reporters without approval.
The move, which carried a threat of being removed as a delegate, has the effect of blunting one of the most powerful if divisive tools of Sanderss movement its unrestrained online presence and tendency to stoke controversy through other media, which has at times spiraled into abuse of his opponents, perceived and real.
Refrain from making negative statements about other candidates, party leaders, Campaigns, Campaign staffers, supporters, news organizations or journalists. This Campaign is about the issues and finding solutions to Americas problems, said the social media policy sent to some delegates. Our job is to differentiate the senator from his opponents on the issues not through personal attacks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-seeking-peace-with-joe-biden-asks-his-own-delegates-to-turn-down-the-volume/2020/05/20/252e06b4-9a07-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)LisaM
(27,830 posts)Sigh. I guess it's good that he sees them for what they are now.
mcar
(42,372 posts)But I'll take it now.
Thanks Bernie. It'll take all of us on the same page to win.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Works for me. I was so proud of Oregon.
JI7
(89,264 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)declaring he still wanted to be on ballots to get delegates to have control over Biden. What is that? It was very important Oregon went Biden and let Sanders see it in his face, otherwise if there was wiggle room he would run with it. He helped to take down HRC. And yes, still pissed. Like people said below, he should have done the same with HRC.
Cha
(297,655 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)I haven't heard anything about Covid in Hawaii. How are you all faring?
We don't believe anything we're hearing in FL. They are all lying.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Visitors coming to the Island have to quarantine for 2 weeks before venturing out.. if they break the rules they're sent home.
Mahalo for asking, mcar!
How are you and your family doing? I have a sister and her family in Gainesville and my nephew and his girlfriend in St Pete.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)The teeth in those agreements had better be shown sharp and quick and soon, because the fact is Sanders really has no control over the radical types who appear as his delegates, who view him as nothing but a vehicle for their splenetic utopianism. He has 'called up that which he cannot put down', and now barely qualifies as a has-been who never was.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)That about says it, Magistrate.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)the way they are acting now in 2016. The nation and the world would have been spared a lot of grief.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)It should have happened in 2016. It did not. We now have 100K dead come this weekend. It shouldn't have come to this, so much incompetency in this admin could have been avoided with Hillary in charge.
I will give him a small amount of credit now, yet years to late.
mcar
(42,372 posts)And I can't help but wonder if he's doing it now because Biden isn't, well, HRC, if you know what I mean.
I know EXACTLY what you mean.