For those DUers that want to criticize Bernie and others for not helping Ossoff,...

[Samantha]

40. I think Bernie did more than he was given credit for

USA wrote an article which said Pelosi and Sanders were propping Ossoff up:

Some 95% of Ossoff’s donations have come from outside Georgia, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The NRCC, the House Republicans’ campaign arm, said Ossoff’s reliance on out-of-state money shows he’s a “far-left Washington insider whose campaign is propped up by Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and the like.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/04/06/democrat-jon-ossoff-raises-8-million-in-georgia-special-election/100122138/

In another place at another time, I read he sent one of his aids down to help the Ossoff campaign.

He might not be a "Democrat" but he has been a Democratic Socialist for decades, and takes his personal political beliefs farther than the Third-Way members of the party. A Democratic Socialist believes the government should work for all of the people, not just the wealthy and corporations. Schumer asked Sanders to take a leadership position in the Democratic party. He specifically thought Sanders could attract more Dems to become involved in the party rather than defecting to Independent status. He could also bring some Republicans on over in the voting booth, since he gets a substantial percentage of Republicans in Vermont supporting him during elections there.

I think he is one of the best politicians I have seen in my lifetime, and I will continue to support him. We have already seen him promoting some of the issues he advocated for during his campaign starting to be considered by Congressional members, and that, as far as I am concerned, is progress.

Sam