So, #PrimaryWarren is the top trending topic on Twitter

[octoberlib]

And all because Warren schooled a Sanders supporter on convention rules last night on CNN’s town hall

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[TwilightZone]

1. Love the people in the comments who don't know Sanders changed his position.

I have to hope that they're not really Sanders supporters. If they are, their knowledge of their candidate is sorely lacking. A better explanation might be that they're being intentionally obtuse.

But then, we see that here a lot. Though, to be honest, I sometimes wonder if those are really Sanders supporters, as well. Some of them clearly aren't doing their guy any favors.

[octoberlib]

2. Russian trolls may be amplifying it, no doubt

but I see a lot of familiar usernames of Sanders supporters that have been around since 2016. This happens anytime Bernie is criticized. Bernie has a strong incel following on social media.

[Malmsy]

45. Yep.

[betsuni]

7. I find that many Sanders supporters don't know much about him.

And say fake news about facts. It's strange.

[TwilightZone]

8. Agreed.

Some also seem to believe that political history started in 2015 when he announced his run for the presidency. They don't seem to understand (or just ignore) that Democrats have been fighting for many of "his" issues for decades.

[betsuni]

9. I want to scream every time he says an obviously Democratic issue is a "radical"

idea he came up with.

[LisaM]

39. Oh, I know, there was a woman on my bus saying these things the other day!

She was rattling on non-stop (not sure if she was talking on the phone or to another person, I couldn't quite see, but she was doing all the talking). Ignored the fact that Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers had all worked hard on improving access to healthcare for years (Teddy wanted single-payer healthcare, or I guess it might even have been called socialized medicine) going back decades.

No, to this woman, Bernie was the "OG" as far as healthcare went. I'm not about to get into a scrap on the bus, commuting is beastly enough as it is lately, but I did just sit there fuming until she got off. She wasn't young either, so she really had no excuse.

[Gothmog]

17. These are real sanders supporters

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[Mike 03]

3. I don't even know what to say.

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[TwilightZone]

5. And they wonder why we don't see Sanders as the "unity" candidate.

With friends like those....

[OliverQ]

18. That Iggy account is an obvious bot.

[mr_lebowski]

40. Those both look like they could be fake ...

This is exactly the kind of thing bots and troll farms would do.

Not saying they ARE, or that ALL the people doing this are disingenuous ... BUT ...

Personally I care a lot more about how 100%-known Sanders surrogates, campaign staff and sometimes Bernie himself ... are conducting themselves.

Shit happening on Twitter should really not be trusted unless it's someone 'known'.

[Gothmog]

44. Bros are trending #PrimaryWarren because Liz exposed Bernie's hypocrisy.

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[jimfields33]

4. When I read the title I thought oh no she went off on bernie

But actually she was factual, pleasant and professional. Good for her! VP warren!!!

[Gothmog]

14. Warren told the truth about sanders and is now being attacked

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[jimfields33]

42. I'm not cool with that at all!!!!!

[LexVegas]

6. And yet Warren won't engage the front runner. Curious that. nt

[octoberlib]

10. She did a little bit at the last debate but

deflects for him a lot , too. I agree.

[superpatriotman]

11. Shutter Twitter

It helps not.
Use it only as an emergency broadcast system if you must

[DanTex]

12. I don't want to primary her, but it is obviously disappointing for her to go against the

principle of whoever gets the most votes being the nominee, rather than party insiders overruling the will of the voters. Not only is it undemocratic, but it's also just bad strategy if we want to defeat Trump.

Also, most of the #primarywarren tweets I've seen are from Bernie-bashers complaining about it and insulting "Bernie Bros", often with abusive language.

[Moderateguy]

16. You mean YOU are disappointed that she stands by the rules that she agreed to?

And Bernie helped write?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. She changed her position

[Moderateguy]

41. No she is willing to abide by the rules she agreed to...

[blm]

51. No. Personal opinion aside, she agreed to the rules.

How is agreeing to abide by the rules changing your personal opinion and your mind?

[Movbez4]

35. So

you're upset that she is actually speaking the truth? The Bernie supporters are becoming like the Trump supporters, vicious attacks on anyone that doesn't support their candidate. Why on earth would you primary Warren, I don't support her for President, but I feel she has been a huge asset for the DEM party. This is why I can't get behind Sanders, he is not a person that can unite the party, but instead seems to be on a mission to alienate anyone that doesn't support him.

[DanTex]

37. Bernie didn't write the rules, Bernie didn't want superdelegates at all.

Like I said, I don't want to primary Warren. I like her. But what she said about Bernie writing the rules isn't true.

[Cha]

50. Elizabeth schooled that sanders' supporter.

[Gothmog]

13. Who is suprised by this?

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[Peacetrain]

15. If Sanders cannot lead his people then how the hell is going to lead the country

This has got to stop.. He needs to speak up.. and tell his people to put a lid on it

[Moderateguy]

19. You assume that Sanders has any control over anything..

[Peacetrain]

21. I am beginning to wonder..

[TwilightZone]

24. Some of his supporters seem to think he would have control over everything.

He couldn't build a consensus in Congress over the past couple decades on any of his major plans, but he's suddenly going to have a magic wand as president, I guess.

[Gothmog]

26. From what I saw at the National Conventiion, sanders does not try to control his supporters

Normally going to a national convention is a once in a life time experience. I have worked really hard inside the party on campaigns and voter protection issues for a very long time to earn this trip. Too bad that sanders and his vetted delegates ruined that experience and did their best to help trump. A candidate has absolute approval rights over their pledged delegates because these delegates can change their votes and these delegates represent the candidate and campaign. I helped vet Clinton delegates and I know that I was vetted. The Clinton campaign told us that we represent her and that our actions would reflect on her and her campaign.

In contrast, sanders sent one very weak text the Sunday night before the convention and then did little or nothing to control his delegates. It was nasty I was there when the sanders delegates booed Congressman John Lewis. I was warned about this stunt 30 minutes before it happened by the Clinton campaign whip. According to my whip, sanders was asked to stop this event and declined. That incident will be used against sanders by Russia to suppress the African American vote just as was done in 2016

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Russia will just run material showing sanders delegates booing John Lewis, Elijah Cummings and others to suppress the vote of African American voters and I feel that this tactic would be very effective

I was at the Texas delegation breakfast when a group of sanders delegates marched in and demanded that we condemn Clinton and change our votes to sanders.

sanders spoke to the Texas delegation the next morning and his speech was again solely about himself. There was a mini-riot due to his delegates the prior morning and the only thing that sanders talked about was himself. sanders did nothing to deal with the fact that his delegates were out of control and did nothing to try to help Hillary Clinton win the general election.

Finally a group of sanders delegates yelled at my daughter and called her the c-Word because she would not try to get me to change my vote. Again sanders was asked to tell his delegates to behave during the convention and sanders refused

[OliverQ]

20. He did tell them to.

He can't control bots and random supporters not part of his campaign.

[Peacetrain]

25. These are not bots Oliver.. people who surround cars.. yelling at people in meetings

dragging in coffins.. orders are coming out of headqtrs.. and that headqtrs is the Sanders campaign. For whatever reason, he is not putting that word out there...

[OliverQ]

29. Can you please show me where Bernie told people to go do those things?

[Peacetrain]

32. Can you show me where he didn't?

If he is rehiring the same gang that blew it up in 2016.. then the buck stops there!

[OliverQ]

34. The burden is on you to prove it.

I can't prove a negative.

[Cha]

49. look who sanders' top staff is.

[Peacetrain]

33. This is my experience

I have told this story before but it happened to me in the 2016 caucus..

I was supposed to give a 5 minute speech for O'Malley.. (all of the precinct captains were giving small speeches for their candidate ..presenting their proposals...) and the Bernie contingency booed my down after 1 minute. Never in my life have I ever experienced anything like that at a caucus


And this year, they just all walked out in mass (I think the captains just told them to leave) which is fine..but the captains did not come in to talk to any of the other candidates supporters... that is why he lost Iowa...

My entire family went with Elizabeth (even though we are philosophically apart, we felt she would be a wonderful person to support and lead our Iowa caucus) and Pete got the delegates.

They are their own worst enemies.. my way or the highway.. the same group that was always holding Obamas feet to the fire..

And Bernie cannot seem to lead this rowdy group.. He never says anything or worst yet does a version of they all good people.. both sides do it (they don't) And he hires back the same people who could not even bother to vote Democratic.

[redqueen]

22. It's trending #21 now

And if you actually look at the tweets, all the most popular ones aren't from Bernie Bros, and ate trashing the hashtag.

It's cute how it was trending before most Americans were even out of bed though.

Maybe, I dunno, THINK?

We have to do better than this kneejerking bullshit y'all. For real. For really real.

[OliverQ]

30. They started trending very early East Coast time

which is prime-time for Russian bots.

Why are so many posters here amplifying Russian propaganda?

[ehrnst]

47. You tell us.

[Gothmog]

23. I am amused by this trending topic on twitter

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[Hav]

27. Nothing new

Whenever the facts aren't on their side, they lash out. It's the immaturity we've seen before.
We can be thankful as long as it remains on Twitter. Recent news of their actual bullying and threatening of others are more worrying.

[OliverQ]

28. I guarantee you this is Russian bots fueling this.

That's what they do. This topic trended too fast and has too many random accounts posting it to be legitimate.

We need to stop amplifying this division. This is what Russia wants.

[onecaliberal]

36. What. The. Fuck.

[DarthDem]

38. It's past time for Sen. Warren to train some fire on Sen. Sanders' supporters

I greatly appreciate her utter destruction of Michael Bloomberg, who looked - in both debates - like he was seeing oncoming headlights and had no idea what to do. But, for once finding myself in agreement with Chris Matthews of all people, I have been confused as to why Warren has not gone after Sanders. She can displace him as the "non-moderate" (they're all liberals so I'm tired of this lingo but use if here for clarity) candidate if she goes after him, while any Bloomberg hits she makes probably benefit Biden. So . . . this is good and I'm glad to see her doing it.

I also agree that the Russians and other bad actors are stirring this up. But this is also what contested primaries look like.

[Gothmog]

43. Why is #PrimaryWarren trending?

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[Hortensis]

55. This guy isn't from SC. Anyone know who he works for?

As for the trending against her, what a nasty camp. Aligning with them is not only immoral, they're potentially dangerous.

[Blue_Tires]

46. It's hilarious because literally EVERY TIME

they're *this* close to securing a virtually unbeatable alliance with Warren, they go out and fuck it up...

I've stopped worrying about St. Bern because his own people are going to kneecap his momentum just like four years ago...

[Cha]

48. From your keyboard to all the positive

stars in the Universe!

[Gothmog]

52. Warren calling Bernie Sanders a massive failure.

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[octoberlib]

53. Omg, thanks for posting!

[musicblind]

54. Love her or hate her, but Warren is a straight shooter.

She always has been. You'd think they'd respect that.

And, if not that, you'd think they'd respect the massive contributions her career has made to the very issues they support.

[hlthe2b]

56. Wow... it is depressing to see supporters of any Dem candidate unwillling to accept truth about

their own candidate--to refuse to go independently check the facts, and instead act like some supporters of another we know by lashing out at the messenger. This is disheartening albeit I do believe bots are amplifying.

Every candidate has flaws and makes mistakes, but let us don't lash out instead of questioning our own understanding.

[Gothmog]

57. sanders supporters are upset

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