Democratic Primaries

George II

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8. I learned about things like this early in my life. My father, a life long Democrat....

Tue May 7, 2019, 08:15 PM

May 2019

.....would change his party affiliation to republican when he saw there would be an upcoming republican primary (mostly for NYC Mayor or local Councilman) He'd then vote for the weakest republican in the primary and afterward would switch his registration back to Democrat.

It's not a surprise that republicans would like trump to run against Sanders, just as Mueller demonstrated that the Russians preferred him to run against trump the first time around.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Meet the Republicans pulling for Bernie [View all] brooklynite May 2019 OP

On the other hand Ohiogal May 2019 #1

If they genuinely hope to run against Sanders... thesquanderer May 2019 #2

they are doing it to tar and feather ALL our candidates as socialists (which equate to commies in Celerity May 2019 #12

Why are we bashing our candidates here? watoos May 2019 #3

Because this isn't a platform for only positive, happy stories brooklynite May 2019 #6

From my twitter feed Gothmog May 2019 #4

Eye opening. (nt) ehrnst May 2019 #5

Meet the one Republican most Dems despise pulling for Biden. BeckyDem May 2019 #7

I learned about things like this early in my life. My father, a life long Democrat.... George II May 2019 #8

Of course they would say that about Bernie. They want to scare his supporters... Stellar May 2019 #9

In recent Monmouth.edu poll about attitudes about Socialism... rgbecker May 2019 #10

Get ready for 10,000 Berners to alert on this... Blue_Tires May 2019 #11