Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Majority in new poll says they would not vote for socialist: Gallup [View all]avebury
(11,201 posts)If I had to rank the candidates in order of preference I would probably list him just ahead of Telsi Gabbard at the bottom of the list. Don't get me wrong, I will vote for whoever takes the Democratic Party nomination but I would prefer Joe, Elizabeth, Amy, Yang or Bloomberg over Sanders. As much as I lean to the left, the pragmatic choice in the Presidential race it to not choose the most left leaning candidate as it plays right into Trump's hands. The key do dealing with a sinking ship is to first plug the holes and then you can bail out the ship. As much as I love Warren, I am starting to lean towards Klobuchar who is smart, well composted and pretty unscathed at this time. But Bloomberg might need to be the material we need to plug the holes in the sinking ship. He could really go toe to toe against Trump. Trump is so irrational that Bloomberg could probably push Trump into making some really bad moves.
It is looking more and more like the Democrats might self implode if they don't stop attacking each other. I wish that all of the Democrat candidates would uniformly attack Trump and show why each one deserves your vote. There are already signs of some factions playing the I won't vote for the Democratic candidate unless it is my candidate which would pretty much guarantee Trump a victory if the Democrats don't unify behind whoever the candidate is in the general election.
There needs to be no infighting because, bottom line, the most important thing this year is to vote Trump out of office and trying to take control of the Senate. Hard core ideology won't mean sh*t if all we do is make is easier for Trump to be reelected.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden