How Bernie Sanders is cultivating California for 2020

[HarmonyRockets]

Bernie Sanders can’t get enough of California.

Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, barnstormed the Golden State ahead of the June 2016 primary like no presidential candidate in recent memory. The front-runner in the party’s nascent 2020 field has returned regularly to campaign for a drug price initiative and to urge support for a universal health care bill similar to one he’s proposed in Washington. His next public event comes Friday in San Francisco at the invitation of the nurses union, among his most vocal supporters.

Sanders’ persistent appearances in the nation’s most populous state – a deep-blue bastion whose leaders bill it as the crucible of the resistance to President Donald Trump – underscores California’s possible significance in the party’s upcoming presidential winnowing process that begins with Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

While California has long served as the largest watering hole for Democrats in search of campaign contributions, the increasing possibility that its primary will be moved up to March from June, combined with a new generation of homegrown potential contenders such as U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, further raise its significance for Sanders.

“California could be outcome-determinant in 2020,” said Darry Sragow, a veteran Democratic strategist and publisher of the California Target Book, a data-driven compendium on elections. “If you are thinking about running for president, you should operate on the strong assumption that what happens here is going to matter a whole lot.”

More:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article174216781.html

[heaven05]

1. while he can travel there

it is in the capacity as a self professed Independent minor leader of a minority wing under the umbrella of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.....he can help but is no hope for the future with me and hundreds of thousands more...Booker, Harris, Kennedy, Ellison, Duckworth, Castro, Duran...they are the future of the Democratic Party.....

[brer cat]

5. ++++

And doesn't our future look bright? Those on your list can generate excitement and GOTV.

[leftofcool]

6. Exactly!

The supposed Democrats running the now broke DNC better hope they run a "real" Democrat in 2020 or they will lose lots of Democratic votes and voters.

[SunSeeker]

21. Exactly. nt

[leftofcool]

2. My vote is for Obama's pick

Deval Patrick

[HarmonyRockets]

3. Aw

Bain Capital. Of course.

[leftofcool]

4. If he is good enough for Obama, he is good enough for me

And he is a good Democrat. I guess mistakes only matter if your name is say Jane Sanders

[HarmonyRockets]

7. That's it?

You can't and won't ask any questions about the candidates? If Obama were to "pick" his successor, you would just choose that person without thought? Is that the way you see democracy? We just pick whoever the last gut picks? And what does Jane Sanders have to do with anything? And why do you think Obama is going to "pick" someone for us? And why would he pick Patrick?

[leftofcool]

29. Maybe you could keep up with Obama's work and then you would know what he is doing

[ehrnst]

34. Sort of like so many here will not question any candidate that Bernie picks?

Like that?

[George II]

23. That would be my "litmus test", too!

[ehrnst]

35. Obama knows the job.

Which is why his endorsment of HRC as "the best qualified person ever" for the job carried a lot of weight.

[comradebillyboy]

18. Does having a private sector job disqualify

a person from running for public office as a Democrat? What is the employment purity test?

[ehrnst]

36. Because anyone that worked in private industry then went into public service

Is CORRUPT!!!!

Only someone who has only ever been in politics their whole professional life is pure enough?

Oh... I forgot...

[murielm99]

10. It is a bit early for me to decide,

but an Obama endorsement would go a long way for me. I would look twice at a candidate endorsed by a true Democrat, President Barack Obama.

[More_Cowbell]

8. All candidates will have to release the last five years' of tax returns

To get on CA's ballot. We'll see who wants to do that.

[HarmonyRockets]

9. Is that all you got?

[lunamagica]

12. Why the laugh? Sanders lied when he said he'd show his taxes. He never did

Now it will be a requirement in California. Will he comply?

[HarmonyRockets]

13. Wow

He did release tax returns. Where do you people come up with this shit? Good god.

[lunamagica]

16. Wow. Hillary released eight years of full tax returns

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We'll see if he is willing to release full years of FULL tax returns

[murielm99]

17. That is false.

Go to politifact.com or factcheck.org.

He released summary pages only, not full tax returns. He evaded and became defensive when asked to come up with full tax returns.

[George II]

32. In addition, instead of filing his FEC mandated personal finance disclosure, he requested...

...two extensions, the second until after the convention. Then he (or his people) announced that he was no longer a candidate so he didn't have to file it.

[George II]

25. Not "tax returns", he released a 2-year old tax return from 2014.

[ehrnst]

37. When?

I mean, if people have to make up shit so they can feel better about someone, maybe that's what needs to be examined here.

Last I heard he filed for another extension.

Of course, I mean full tax returns, like HRC has every year, not summaries like Donald Trump.

Seriously - where did you hear he released his returns?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr/06/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-has-released-few-tax-returns-compar/

[George II]

24. Jane Sanders told Andrea Mitchell in a live interview on April 14 last year, sitting under....

....the Brooklyn Bridge, that his tax returns would be released "when they are due", which was April 29 since they received a 2-week extension.

That never happened.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I wonder why.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. For the LIFE of me I dont know how the same person can DEMAND tax returns

from one candidate, like trump, but not from another.

Oh well.

[OilemFirchen]

11. Ah, yes.

"the nurses union" - aka National Nurses United, Sanders' SuperPAC that doesn't exist.

Thanks for the reminder.

[lunamagica]

14. I never doubted he'd run again. The question is, will he try to use the Democratic Party again?

And will the Democratic Party will allow this to happen again?

[HarmonyRockets]

15. Well

He's said multiple times before that he has no interest in running as a spoiler. He has repeatedly said he would never run as an independent. He has spoken out against what Ralph Nader did in 2000. So of course not. As far will the party let him run, why wouldn't they? It would be incredibly stupid to somehow keep him from running and piss off the young/progressive base like that.

[radical noodle]

22. He's said a lot of things.... n/t

[heaven05]

19. I sure hope not

on both counts.....

[lunamagica]

20. So do I

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. You better hope the Democratic Party allows Bernie in if he does decide to run again...

though I dont think he'd run Independent or Green Party, outta spite - that would be disastrous! - it would still be a risky move to reject him.

While I wouldn't be too pleased, it certainly wouldn't stop me from supporting the Democratic candidate, as I feel it's my solemn duty to do so, if we have any chance to dethrone the Nazi King... unfortunately, not everyone will be on the same page and that's the risk we take.

[heaven05]

27. from my understanding

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and numbers from NPR, if voters for BS, in Mich. Wisc. and Penn. who switched their GE votes from the Party's GE candidate, HRC, to the idiot we now have as potus, she would have had 278 electoral votes...more than enough to have beaten the current clown we have as a potus. The BS wing of the Democratic Party must be made to realize, it is just that, a minority wing, with a minor leader, under the umbrella of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

With him as a possible in 2020, why would I want the same outcome as Nov.8 2016? We have a rising and upcoming cadre of true Democrats who will show that our power and victories are in the future, not dependent on anyone from the past, except as possible advisors.

[left-of-center2012]

30. A day without still another attack on Bernie ...

... would be a beautiful day.

[murielm99]

33. I guess you did not read the facts in this thread,

or check them for yourself.

FACTS are not attacks. Lets 45 and his minions lie. We don't need to do that.