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How Bernie lost New YorkCaught up in one distraction after another, Sanders never came close to the upset victory he once predicted.
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Nevertheless, by the next morning, the campaign was forced into full scramble mode. Cable coverage of the 27,000-person rally was eclipsed by reporting on the furor surrounding the comment, requiring a Sanders response. After first resisting an apology, the campaign settled on disavowing the remark with a tweet.
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Another day, another lost news cycle.
In New York, Sanders finally hit the wall, his winning streak halted by a daily pummeling that forced him on the defensive and stopped his momentum cold. The tabloids dealt him punishing hit after punishing hit. The Democratic establishment, most of it in Hillary Clintons camp, piled on harder than the Sanders campaign expected. Caught up in one distraction after another a quarrel over debate details, a back and forth with Clinton over her qualifications, a trip to the Vatican in the run-up to the election Sanders never gained his footing or even came close to pulling off the upset victory he once predicted with frequency.
Just two weeks before, on the night of his victory in Wisconsin, everything seemed to be going Sanders way. He was flush with cash thanks to his energized small donors and he was riding a wave of momentum after posting six wins in the seven previous contests. His aides had just agreed to the finishing touches of a debate in New York something Sanders himself wanted after the campaigns had initially agreed to hold it in Pennsylvania. His top staff viewed the increasingly sharp timbre and pitch of the race as confirmation that Clinton herself was frustrated with the direction of things.
But even then, trouble was brewing. As Wisconsin voters went to the polls, a transcript of a halting Sanders interview with the New York Daily News editorial board earlier that week was beginning to generate online chatter, raising questions about Sanders solutions on his wheelhouse topics like breaking up the biggest banks. The Clinton campaign quickly seized on the transcript, sending it to millions of its backers as part of a fundraising email making the case that Sanders hadnt thought through how to accomplish his biggest goals.
The next day, fresh off his victory, Sanders received another hit: his advisers read in disbelief a Washington Post headline that they took to mean Clinton had questioned Sanders qualifications for the presidency during a "Morning Joe" interview. It was one step too far, they thought and Sanders himself agreed
IamMab
(1,359 posts)The NY Daily News interview, the "Democratic whores" comment, and finally, that insanely low tax rate he paid last year.
They proved, in this order, that he doesn't know what he's talking about on his core subject, has surrounded himself with hateful people, and he doesn't live according to his own standards for others.
NYers wisely rejected him.
stopbush
(24,395 posts)The Daily News Bin is a pro-Hillary operation that writes articles and editorials supporting her.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)meeting at the secret clubhouse!
Treant
(1,968 posts)Look, we know Maeve was a distraction, but honey, get over it. You've got Molly now.
<< Total Dresden fanboi.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)I'm normally not one for first-person narrative, but Jim Butcher writes it very well. Can't wait for his "big apocalyptic trilogy" to wrap it all up someday.
For now, just waiting for a release date on Peace Talks.
stopbush
(24,395 posts)rally in NYC. The NYPD put the number at 11,000.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Nice article, but it ignores the months and months of building a solid, negative foundation upon which BS gladly reigned.
Gothmog
(145,086 posts)Sanders blew by going negative
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,007 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,230 posts)"He visited churches and released a series of videos of celebrity endorsers he ended up spending over $3 million more than her on television advertisements, complete with a closing message that invoked New Yorks own Franklin Delano Roosevelt only to be matched by what people close to his team said was an unexpected flood of campaign activity from high-profile Clinton backers in local government."
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Legends303
(481 posts)I wouldn't send my 27 dollars to any politicians who was not pushing wins in places that he or she needs to win for delegate count. He spent on trips to see a Pope that wasn't interested in our politics instead of spending most of his time in NY trying to get votes.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,230 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,230 posts)Sanders worked hard to minimize the disruption. Thirty-eight hours after he took off for Rome, he was due back in New York for a Saturday night event. But as he was landing at John F. Kennedy Airport, news came down that his roundtable event that evening scheduled to include Al Sharpton and Cornel West would not feature Sharpton, depriving Sanders of a chance to appear with a prominent African-American leader, one he sorely needed to court.
On Tuesday, he was proved wrong.
It was a long shot coming into it, said SienaCollege pollster Steve Greenberg. If youre trying to set expectations such that you can perform up to those expectations, or possibly exceed those expectations, I think it was not the wisest thing for the Sanders campaign to try and tell the public that they were going to win New York."
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I hadn't heard about "the roundtable" event, but does anyone know why Sharpton backed out?