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LetMyPeopleVote

(174,176 posts)
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 12:52 AM Aug 2021

The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner [View all]

I am not a fan of the Just Us Democrats and Nina Turner. I am glad that the party is going to take a strong stand when the Just Us Democrats target a real democrat. We are seeing this conflict in the OH 11




Moderate Democratic groups, donors and even some Republicans are flooding Ohio’s 11th Congressional District with millions of dollars in a bid to elect Shontel Brown and defeat progressive favorite Nina Turner in Tuesday’s special primary election.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), along with Democratic Reps. Joyce Beatty (Ohio), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.) and Bennie Thompson (Miss.), are headlining a get-out-the-vote event for Brown this weekend as well. ....

The goal of Brown’s establishment allies, however, is not merely to stop Turner. By defeating Turner, a staunch ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and critic of Democratic Party leaders, these moderates also hope to send a shot across the bow to the nascent activist left ― a signal that they are ramping up efforts to limit the left’s influence in Congress.

“Establishment Dems have largely slept through a lot of primary challenges or a lot of these races where the Justice Democrats have played,” said a moderate Democratic strategist uninvolved in the race, who asked for anonymity for professional reasons. “They’re not going to do that anymore.” ....

But as her critics have grown more willing to remind voters, she is also someone who publicly entertained an offer to serve as Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s running mate in 2016, and who, in 2020, likened the choice between President Donald Trump and Biden to deciding between a “bowl of shit” and “half” of that bowl.....

“People who vote in the Democratic primary tend to be voters who are proud to be Democrats and prioritize Democratic unity,” said Cass, a partner at Slingshot Strategies in Manhattan. “If your words can be twisted and painted in a way that makes it look like you are antithetical to that ― which Nina Turner is not, but people she has pissed off perceive that to be the case ― I don’t think Democratic voters like that.”

I get the Just US Democrats emails and you can see that the Just Us Democrats are desperate to raise more money to stick it to corporate democrats. I find these emails to be very funny
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The Democratic establishment is pissing me off; elleng Aug 2021 #1
I really do not want a third party person in this seat who will be blocking Joe Biden LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #2
Why? They're go;ing all out to defeat this.. Cha Aug 2021 #10
They are doing their job to elect Democrats. No reason to vote for Nina Turner. She is not a Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #14
Establishment Dem or Jill Stein Dem? aeromanKC Aug 2021 #3
A vote for Jill stein was a vote for TFG LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #5
Fair play. Manchin/Sinema block Democrats from the right leftstreet Aug 2021 #4
Manchin and Sinema are Democrats... like them or not. And they come from red states. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #15
The Just Us Democrats claim that the race is rigged LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #6
Wasn't that the same excuse used in the 2020 Democratic Primaries? LiberalFighter Aug 2021 #25
They have the same definition of rigged as trump dsc Aug 2021 #29
+1 rogue emissary Aug 2021 #33
+1 betsuni Aug 2021 #35
Yes LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #41
Let's pray we get an ACTUAL Dem in there! LowerManhattanite Aug 2021 #7
GOOD. Very Glad to Read/Hear it. msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #8
Well, duh. She's not a democrat. NT Happy Hoosier Aug 2021 #9
I voted for Shontel Brown in the primary this morning. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #11
Well done ! OnDoutside Aug 2021 #18
Hi, Dems. I envy you. Our slate's always all far right, no GOOD choice. Hortensis Aug 2021 #21
In close Ohio special election, Jewish vote could determine outcome LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #12
And this will bite us in the ass... Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #20
Don't get it. Only with antisemites, surely? Who else is going to Hortensis Aug 2021 #22
You'd be surprised. But yes, I am speaking of anti-Semites and their enablers. Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #23
There are a lot more Anti-Semites than many think, even in our own Democratic Party. Sad. George II Aug 2021 #31
Don't I know it! Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #36
@ShontelMBrown thanks "my Jewish brothers and sisters" LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #43
BTA...yep Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #34
The Jewish vote made the difference in #Ohio11 in support of @ShontelMBrown . LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #42
Just thought I would add... Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 #38
The ADL denounced her "raging." Hortensis Aug 2021 #45
Kick! NurseJackie Aug 2021 #13
I voted for Shontel this morning! So did hubs. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #16
That's wonderful! Nixie Aug 2021 #26
Oooh, we have an Establishment now! Sympthsical Aug 2021 #17
Haha, Turner took the Clinton's help the first Nixie Aug 2021 #24
I am the email list for the Justice Democrats or according to their podcast "just Us" Dems LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #27
Their latest email had two pre-emptive excuses why Turner will lose. Exact words from the email: George II Aug 2021 #30
I was amused by that email LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #32
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #37
This is Joe Biden's Party Now LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #44
Is there a reason you're spamming articles at me days after the fact? Sympthsical Aug 2021 #46
You claimed that there was no establishment which post was wrong in every way LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #47
Update OnDoutside Aug 2021 #19
GOOD themaguffin Aug 2021 #28
These headlines make me smile LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #39
Nina Turner's loss in Ohio means Biden doesn't need to keep caving to the left LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #40
Perhaps the Justice Dems should start trying to take Repub seats... Wounded Bear Aug 2021 #48
I have been following the Justice Democrats for a while LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #49
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