Bernie Sanders takes jabs at Donald Trump while other Democrats avoid president's name

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21. however.

sheshe2 (54,208 posts)

14. What I get from the article is this.

Instead, many Democrats are taking the line that the election is about more than Trump. In a recent swing through Charleston, South Carolina, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made little mention of the president — except to urge voters to look beyond him.

"I know it's so motivating to turn on the TV every day and see somebody you so disagree with," Booker said. "We have got to understand this is not about him. It's about us. We should be motivated not by what we're against but what we are for as a country."

A few days later, Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor who is weighing a presidential run, was asked by a reporter about Trump's absence from his remarks to voters in New Hampshire.

"At the end of the day, if all we're talking about is him, folks in communities like mine and around here will be saying, 'OK, well, no one's talking about us,' " he said.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128719203#post14

No need to talk him up. It is about us, not him. Wise candidates. Very wise candidates.

"We should be motivated not by what we're against but what we are for as a country."