Politico-Florida Dems in uproar after Sanders' Cuba comments

[Gothmog]

I think that sanders made a major mistake in praising Castro. trump will bury sanders with negative ads with these quotes and I fear that down ballot races in Florida will suffer if sanders is the nominee https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/florida-dems-uproar-sanders-cuba-comments-117213

Bernie Sanders says he’s the Democrat best-equipped to defeat Donald Trump in November.

But Florida Democrats insist he‘s the worst-equipped after Sanders’s refusal Sunday night to thoroughly condemn the Cuban Revolution. His comments on 60 Minutes sent shockwaves through the nation’s biggest battleground state, where Democratic members of Congress, state legislators and party leaders warned that his nomination — and Sanders’s self-described “Democratic socialism” — will cost them the biggest battleground state of them all.

“If Bernie Sanders is atop the ticket, it’s going to make it tougher for all of us to win in Florida,” said Fernandez, who has endorsed Sanders’s rival, Joe Biden. “No one really sees Sanders winning Florida and I don’t think his campaign does either.”

As a state with an influential cross-section of Latinos whose families fled leftist Latin American regimes and violence, Sanders embrace of far-left leaders and his past refusals to wholeheartedly condemn Latin American strongmen and the Soviet Union have long been seen as fatal flaws.

Sanders on Sunday did nothing to allay those concerns in a 60 Minutes interview where he was asked about his 1985 comments stating that the Cuban people didn’t “rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro” because “he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.”....

But that could change under the kind of sustained assault that Trump’s campaign is waiting to unleash once he becomes the nominee -- Florida is a must-win state for Trump.

[Downtown Hound]

1. Yeah, well, they can go screw themselves.

I'm beyond sick of tiptoeing around the tender sensibilities of the Cuban exile community.

[Callado119]

6. WTF? So we're just going to write off swing states one by one..

..because BS is an awful politician who can’t open his mouth without pissing off large swaths of people?..great strategy to win a general election you’ve got there...

[Downtown Hound]

7. Between Florida's aging population, non-stop voting suppression

and God knows what other crap they pull, Florida is pretty much already written off. Sorry.

North Carolina is a much better bet. But yeah, there's millions of people out there who need health care, homes, better wages, and oh yeah, a future. So I'm done pandering to a few disnechanted exiles who are going to freak out everytime somebody has something other than total condemnation for a different economic system that might help a lot of people out.

[evertonfc]

2. I voted for Bloomberg but Joe Biden would

win Florida. Ask Steve Schale.

[Kurt V.]

3. no. dem leadership in Florida is in an uproar. we'll see what rank and file Latino voters think.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I think it's important to have an inner filter

If you're going to seriously run for president. Unless you're Donald Trump. He doesn't seem to need one.

I don't think we can get one of our own elected without one though.

[Gothmog]

5. Florida operatives said they were ...worried that down-ballot candidates could suffer.

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