Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Why Bloomberg Can't Beat Trump [View all]Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)recently. What has Sanders done? He is a millionaire. What has he given? I have seen it in the polls and heard it on Sirius radio...the hosts argue with folks who call up and say they will vote Bloomberg...AA voters know the worst thing would be another Trump term and will vote for who will deny Trump a win. I will too.
As for' progressives', if you have to have a pure candidate, won't vote for the Democratic nominee and cast a vote to throw Trump out of office...than you are not progressive in the least...not the base but just some non-Democratic leftist voters who may spoil but can't win...we will have to find a means to win without such unreliable voters. We need a 50 state strategy...I for one am sick of the extortion...much of the problems we face today are because of the left/Greens.
Gore in 2000 ( United and war), Kerry in 2004 (Katrina deaths and economic debacle) when Moore went around begging folks to vote for Kerry after he and his buddies savaged Kerry earlier in the primary, 2010 when we lost the house( and couldn't even fix the ACA) thanks to the 'message voters', 2014 when we lost the Senate as the left even on this site called Obama names and stayed home (we lost a SCOTUS pick). And of course 2016 when the left/ Green refused to vote for Hillary and helped destroy her chances in the Blue Wall states. They helped elect Trump and have blood on their hands. And Sanders hired those who publicly said they voted for Stein instead of the Democratic nominee which is horrifying.
Personally, I can't ride out another Trump term...and believe that is what we have with a Sanders nomination...even with the usual blackmail by the Green/Left...I see no evidence that Sanders can supply more new voters than the amount of voters that he will lose. I vote blue no matter who in the general...in the primary it is any candidate other than Sanders...which means Biden or Bloomberg. I want to win. And the fact that Sanders supporters are refusing to vote for the nominee makes me think he is not the nominee we need in 2020 to show Trump the door.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden