Expanding the party, and Joe Rogan.

[dawg day]

19. My concern is-- Trump has been pumping Sanders for a week or so

Tweeting that the primary will be rigged, pretending faux sympathy for Sanders, and so on.

I live in an open-primary state (completely open-- you can be registered in one party and vote in the other's primary), and voters (including me <G&gt have long practiced the cross-voting that Trump is signalling. GOPers can vote in the Dem primary and push one candidate to defeat a candidate Trump fears more.

When Trump started tweeting out how he symps with Sanders, I immediately thought of my state's primary and what he was commanding to his minions in my state. Now I don't think Sanders wants Trump's support...

But then when Joe Rogan "endorses" Sanders, I have to wonder... what's his real aim? Electing Sanders? Or keeping Biden from running against Trump?

I don't know. There are some definitely temperamental similarities between some "Bernie Bros" and Trump's young male fans, so it's actually possible for some of them who don't care about policy to make that switch. Rogan, who seems to like being contrary, probably speaks to those guys.

>But in the end, if the goal is to beat Trump, they're both in the same category.>

Rubin I think is clearly anti-Trump, always has been. Rogan, however, I'm not sure his goal is to beat Trump at all.