Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Is it me or are Biden supporters really angry at everyone except for Biden [View all]Rilgin
(799 posts)I have been defending Bernie here for a few days even though not my actual candidate this year. He is my second choice. However, I have tried to defend him without reference to other candidates because mostly what I see is Bernie Bashing from lots of long time posters on this site without any courtesy to other parts of the democratic party that like him.
You give a good example. You reference the thread where the Bernie Bash erupted over John King's story. King retracted it eventually because it probably went to far. However, the Thread ignored that, in fact, as a fact, King did not mention Bernie and neither King nor the bash contingent recognized that the story probably came from earlier when the Biden communication director and deputy campaign manager did seemingly question the validity of the Vote on CNN (where King works).
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/iowa-caucuses-live-updates-2020-democrats-make-their-final-pitches-n1128596/ncrd1129681#liveBlogHeader
Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager and communications director, said the campaign has "real concerns about the integrity of the process Tuesday morning during an appearance on CNN.
If you think it was just questioning process, here is the continuation of the article.
The Iowa Democratic has said that their data was "sound" and the delay in the results was not due to a hack or intrusion, rather an abundance of caution to ensure accuracy. They plan to release the results sometime Tuesday.
When asked what reason she has to believe differently than what the Iowa Democratic Party has stated, Bedingfield said, "If you have a process where you can't be confident that the results that are being reported are reflective of the votes that people cast last night and the process, that's a real concern."
This was a CNN interview where John King works so any mistake John King made in Biden's actual plans or responses to Biden's concerns were at CNN not from any other candidate. I do not object to Biden questioning the validity of the results. I have my own ideas of what happened which do not involve the app but the attacks on Bernie are just more attacking him for any reason that a person can manufacture. It is not helpful. It is divisive and increases the disunity in the democratic party.
Correcting John King for a bad report is great. The Biden supporters and the Biden campaign minimizing Iowa and boosting their candidate is politics and fair. However, attacking another candidate that has nothing to do with that report while ignoring the Campaigns own words is divisive. This is similar to the attacks on Bernie for asking for rules to make the caucus more transparent. Who can actually argue with increased transparency? The hands in the air contingent says reporting 10 additional constant numbers (which have already been recorded with a paper trail to consider viability) is incredibly complicated. Reporting consists of at most 16 constant numbers and one result based on 6 constant numbers. All this can be done easily which is why the Democratic Party and with transparency candidates can actually see what happened.
There are tons of other examples.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided