Republicans already tying downballot Democrats to Sanders

[RandySF]

In two separate email blasts by the NRCC, the group questioned if Florida Reps. Donna Shalala (D) and Stephanie Murphy (D) would support a “Castro fanboy.” Both have disavowed Sanders’s comments.

“Does this mean Stephanie Murphy will refuse to support Sanders when he is the nominee? Or will she upset her socialist base instead?” asked Camille Gallo, a spokeswoman for the NRCC.

A GOP strategist pledged that Republicans would use Sanders as an anchor to pull down Democratic Senate hopefuls.

“Right now, Bernie is their front-runner, and socialism doesn’t sell in the Atlanta suburbs, in their Charlotte suburbs and in the Phoenix suburbs,” the GOP strategist said, referring to the Senate races in Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.

Sanders, who supports free college education and “Medicare for All,” is already being name-dropped in key Senate races as Republicans try to activate their base. While most of the 24 Senate seats the GOP is defending are in safe Republican states, a handful of key toss-up races are expected to make or break the GOP efforts to hold onto the majority.

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), appearing with Trump at a Colorado rally last week, pledged that Republicans would fight “socialism.”

“There was a dangerous thing that happened in 2016. It was the normalization of socialism by Bernie Sanders,” he said.

Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) recently called former astronaut Mark Kelly, who is likely to be her Democratic opponent, the “the 51st vote for all of Bernie’s wildest Soviet-style fantasies.”

McSally is running for the final two years of the late Sen. John McCain’s (R) term. Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has distanced himself from the tag, noting that he’s a “capitalist.”







https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484438-gop-casts-sanders-as-2020-boogeyman

[highplainsdem]

1. We're going to see so much of this if Sanders is the nominee.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Sadly, yes.

It's going to be non-stop - and we don't even know what oppo-research the GOP have dug up that we haven't heard yet.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Or the made-up dirt the Russians will create.

Last week before early voting started in Texas, an NPR guest claimed that Sanders wanted to nationalize the oil industry and exclaimed how bad that would be for the Texas economy. I don’t think that’s true, at least today, but if Sanders said it years ago, it will be used against everyone now.

[Cha]

3. We have to have a nom who will unite us.

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[Sloumeau]

5. Dyslexics of the world, untie! :) nt

[Cha]

6. LoL.. I just saw what I did before I

read your post and Edited! lol Good one Sloumeau!

I'm laughing.. we have to have a leader who will untie from this monster in the WH!

[Sloumeau]

4. This would be such a nightmare. nt

[gab13by13]

8. Statistics show otherwise.

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong stats, can you help me with a link?

[HarlanPepper]

35. You're looking at the polls

Before the GOP drops $2 billion on Bernie’s head. Dukakis was ahead, too. Trump was behind. It doesn’t matter as much as you think it does.

[gab13by13]

7. Bernie explained Castro at his town hall last night.

If people want a political answer instead of a truthful answer then don't vote for Bernie.

[HarlanPepper]

36. Ok.

[cheezmaka]

9. 53% of Americans will not vote for a Socialist

Why do you think many republicans (including Trump) would LOVE to see Sanders as the nominee? I'll vote blue no matter what but we just can't "play into their hands"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/24/vote-bernie-elect-trump/

[gab13by13]

11. Max Boot gave his own personal opinion.

Max Boot is one man's opinion. Statistics don't back up Boot's opinion. Statistics show Bernie beating Trump.
Show me a poll where Bernie is not beating Trump.

[cheezmaka]

16. The polls have ALL democrat candidates beating Trump

That's not the issue. It's about the mentality of moderate and independent voters in addition to who has the "best chance" of beating him. The top 2 were Biden and Sanders for RIGHT NOW. However, if he keeps "branding" himself as a "socialist" and making comments similar to the one about Castro then he not only hurts his own chances in the General Election but those Dems in the House and Senate as well...

[Hav]

10. That is only the beginning

Every Dem will be put in a position to declare whether they support the "socialist" and his policies. It will be a lose-lose. Even moderate and popular Dems will have to face the "You may like Democrat x, but we need Repub y to prevent the socialist takeover" attack.

[gab13by13]

12. Show me a poll that backs up your opinion.

I can't find 1 poll that shows Bernie losing to Trump.

[Hav]

13. You must be mistaken

I didn't talk about BS against Trump. I talked about his catastrophic influence on downballot races which is the topic of this thread.

[ouija]

14. Freak out over Bernie

Joe Biden is a terrible candidate and Trump is far worse to be at the top of the ticket. Besides, if Bernie is the nominee, who you voting for, Trump or Sanders?

[Hav]

15. Again, why are you guys so confused about this topic?

We are talking about downballot races. What's so hard to understand about that?
I don't know how it can be explained in a simpler terms but this is not about Bernie vs Trump. Try to at least make the effort and read the posts.

[Vogon_Glory]

27. Bernie-philes need to realize that Democratic victory is

more than capturing the White House. It is also controlling Congress and as many state legislatures as possible.

Bernie-philes have clearly forgotten or never learned the painful lessons many of us moderates learned during the Clinton years and again during the Obama years: just having the White House isn’t enough. We need control of Congress, too, and that’s something I believe that Bernie can’t deliver.

We are electing a President, not a talented vocalist for American Idol. A President needs a team in Congress and the Senate.

[Moderateguy]

32. If Biden is the nominee who will you be voting for Biden or Trump?

See it goes both ways

[empedocles]

24. BS's 'catastrophic influence on downballot races' - clearcut phrase

[Cosmocat]

17. Its a slow moving trainwreck

nm

[cheezmaka]

19. or a shipwreck...

[NurseJackie]

21. We told you so.

[cheezmaka]

22. Hopefully Dem voters in SC and the rest of the caucuses will "wise up"...

before it's "too late"...

[NurseJackie]

23. The centrist/rational vote is being split too many ways...

... giving the advantage to Bernie. (This is how it happened for Trump: too many "normal" republicans splitting the "normal" vote... thus allowing the kooky Trump supporters to propel him into the lead.)

The DNC needs tighter qualification criteria to winnow out the field before we get this far. Also, some requirements on disallowing non-Democrats would be good too.

[cheezmaka]

37. I agree...

The vote is STILL split up giving Bernie the advantage. And probably not counting the number of folks that 45 and the GOP has ordered to vote for him in these first few primaries (if that's possible of course). Non-Democrats should DEFINITELY not be allowed in order to avoid this predicament that we're in right now...

[Cha]

25. K

[Vogon_Glory]

26. A Sanders nomination is like an Ike jacket

No coat tails.

As many of us learned when Obama was President, holding the White House wouldn’t be enough: we need control of Congress and of as many state legislatures as possible. Democrats bedazzled by Bernie’s candidacy need to face this unpleasant fact. It’s painful but it’s true.

The irony of Bernie’s candidacy is that his old Socialist Workers buddies understood the role of the party and the candidate better than Bernie and his current followers seem to. Yes, the candidate is important, but his or her role is to grow the strength of the party.

I just don’t see this with a Bernie Sanders candidacy.

[evertonfc]

28. I'm hearing Mark Kelley

will refuse and appearance if he is nominee.

[ouija]

29. It's sad

But half the posters on DU are making Republican arguments.

[Moderateguy]

34. It will be all kinds of candidates up and down middle America

not wanting to be seen with him

[ibegurpard]

30. Republicans always try to tie all Democrats to their demon du jour

[dalton99a]

31. Sanders is putting House seats at risk.

It's plain as day

[Demsrule86]

33. And so it begins.

[maximusveritas]

38. Yes, they will vilify any Democratic candidate, but in Bernie's case they don't have to lie

They can simply repeat what Bernie himself has called himself and promised to do.