Sanders Campaign Manager on MSNBC: Sanders's opponents don't care about downballot Democrats

[RandySF]

Do I dare respond to that?

[samnsara]

1. why would they even say that? how divisive!

[showblue22]

2. MORE PROJECTION

It's their side who only wants to elect Berniecrats down ballot.

[highplainsdem]

3. Complete BS -- AND they know it. A vicious lie.

[showblue22]

4. They lie a lot. I mean a lot.

[Me.]

8. Working Their Way Up To 16,000

[showblue22]

13. Exactly!

Two sides of the same coin..

[Me.]

30. +1

[LisaM]

5. I can't even.

I mean, I really can't even.

[highplainsdem]

6. Do you have a link for that statement? I'm searching, can't find it. Was it just mentioned on TV?

[highplainsdem]

9. Just saw you edited your OP to mention this was on MSNBC. Thanks!

[Me.]

7. And The Pointing Finger Doesn't Care About Anyone But Himself

down-ballot or otherwise

[lapucelle]

10. Which one? N/T

[RandySF]

12. Weaver

[Cha]

11. Not true.. that's the whole ******* POINT.. We DO CARE

VERY MUCH!

[LisaM]

16. It's a blatant lie.

Remember Michigan's awful governor, the tainted water guy, Snyder? Did Bernie campaign against him? No. Did HRC? Yes.

[MineralMan]

14. On the contrary, I am a solid supporter of every Democrat

on the ballot. I haven't seen that kind of statement from most Sanders supporters.

[dware]

17. He's got it backwards,

it's Sanders that doesn't care about down ballot Democrats.

[MH1]

21. Yup.

I'm liking Sanders less, the more he opens his mouth.

Iowa Dems, please give the BS campaign a wake-up call.

[George II]

18. How would anyone in his campaign know, most importantly Sanders, how DEMOCRATIC candidates...

....feel about other Democratic races?

They're too busy primarying popular, effective incumbent Democrats with their Justice Democrats candidates. Thankfully they're only 9% effective.

[still_one]

27. Ding ding ding!!! We have a winner

[Lord Wilmore]

19. The other takeway from that...

Is that many candidates are afraid of losing to Bernie in the primary.

It seems theres been a lot of recent heat towards Bernie as the primaries get closer.

Is this why there have been rumors of the rules being changed regarding superdelegates?

[highplainsdem]

20. How in the world did you get from what the OP said to what you say is "the other takeaway"?

[SaschaHM]

23. "How can I manipulate this to benefit Sanders?"

That's how.

[SaschaHM]

22. Funny.

It's like she/he forgot that Sander's presidential runs (tm) consist of bashing Democrats. I still remember when his incompetent campaign couldn't be bothered with the WI Supreme Court race during that primary. He won it, but the Dem candidate lose due in part because of blank votes.

[Gothmog]

24. sanders would kill down ballot candidates in most states

I and a good number of real Democrats are working hard to turn Texas blue. Texas will be a battleground state if Biden is the nominee. If sanders is the nominee, we can kiss down ballot races goodbye. sanders and socialism is poison in Texas

[octoberlib]

25. We'd lose both the House and Senate under a Sanders Presidency.

[Gothmog]

28. I do not want to see Kevin McCarthy become speaker due to a weak candidate like sanders

If sanders is on the top of the ticket, we would have Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Devon Nunes as chair of intelligence committee. sanders is a weak candidate who would kill down ballot candidates in the real world

[C_U_L8R]

26. What's the Sanders record?

History seems to speak for itself.

[Fla Dem]

29. This is it, exactly it, This is what the Bernie campaign did in 2016 as well.

He sends his surrogates out to dirty the water and throw mud on DEMOCRATS! He then stands back and says, "What? No I don't know anything about it." Then the media goes out and asks the DEMOCRATIC candidates what they think about what the Bernie camp said.

The DEMOCRATS who push back, are accused by the media and Bernie supporters as being divisive and attacking Bernie. I've seen this movie before and it doesn't have a happy ending.

[OilemFirchen]

31. Here's how much Senator Sanders cares about down-ballot incumbent Democrats:

Thus far, he's endorsed Cori Bush vs. William Lacy Clay, Mari Newman vs. Dan Lipinski and Jessica Cisneros vs. Henry Cuellar.

And it's early.

[Blue_true]

32. Newman definitely is better than Lipinski. Don't know about the Texas race.