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Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog

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Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog

February 19, 20196:22 AM ET

SCOTT DETROW

JESSICA TAYLOR

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"We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward," the independent senator told Vermont Public Radio in an interview airing Tuesday morning.

But this 2020 bid will undoubtedly be a very different presidential campaign than his quest for the Democratic nomination as an underdog in 2016. Sanders enters the race as a top contender who, along with former Vice President Joe Biden, tops most early polls, far outpacing other Democratic candidates in support and name identification.
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Sanders also played a lead role opposing Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and engaged with the Democratic National Committee that famously opposed his 2016 campaign, as revealed in internal emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted to Wikileaks.

In the wake of the 2016 campaign, the DNC changed its presidential nominating process, in part by largely removing party leaders known as "superdelegates" from influencing the selection, a move Sanders supported.
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I don't care who it is in 2020. Get the Orange Trumpet OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
 
So-called experts say:

1. Bernie is too old.

2. His socialist past will scare people.

3. He stands a chance ONLY if he promises to choose as his running mate a female of color.
 
Glad he entered. It will show just how crazy the left is.

He has about as much chance as a snowball is he’ll does.

Hope you Dems enjoy another 4 years of Trump. When you put forward people like this you guarantee Trump stays put.
 
Here we go again.

:lamo

The Democratic Socialist running for president. ANOTHER ONE.
 
And now it gets more interesting.

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It's absurd with his incessant acts of "vote splitting" conduct, in how he wants to ignore and usurp the fact the Democrats had already selected someone to give the Rebuttal.... !!!!!

It's time for Sanders to go side down and deal with his State Concerns.... He has not even come close to considering to be aware of his vote splitting acts and the damages he did in 2016. Not knowing when to sit down even then, when he hitched a ride on the Democratic Ticket and then Disrespected the Democratic Party's own Nominee when it was clear the delegates were not for him, and then bringing his sour face to the Democratic Convention after not knowing or caring to bring his voters to Support the Democratic Ticket and its Nominee.

Now, here he which his "Vote Splitting Presence", again by the same acts of "vote splitting" in being as if nothing more than a adjunct operative of Trump promotion, and he's not even concerned to be aware of doing and being so. "His continual opposition to Democratic Platform Agenda Elements, promotes nothing more than Vote Splitting, while he selectively attacks Democratic positions.
He is not of the demeanor to be President, with that whiny like delivery and the ideals that push too far to the left, as if he thinks he can turn and Ocean Liner of a Nation on a pin head. he has nothing more than "two items", one is "to back and support the principle of Medicare for All", "Access to higher Education with lower cost, to no cost for Community Colleges". He can do that from a Senatorial Seat... if he thinks he so capable of being effective, then be so... in the Senate and build a Bi Partisan Coalition to support it.
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We are not going to have a "President Sanders"... I think he would be better off if he thinks he is so good for the country on his concern, then demonstrate it in the Senate....

This is not the time to have him "straddling the fence"... to hitch a ride, and then not know when to back the Democratic Nominee....
Sander's should know... If one is not a member of something, but want to ride on that member's platform, but don't embrace the whole of that platform's agenda... then it should not be an expectation that such one could dominate on or in using that platform to push things that are counter to that platforms whole spectrum of agenda. That's the irony of the matter. It would be the same thing if he said he was running on the Republican Ticket, they would not give their forces over to him, when he has various ideals and agenda items that are contrary to the Republican Party.
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If he thinks he can be of such "bi-partisan" as in how he wants a little bit of this, and a little bit of that... then... he should stand out as a superstar in the Senate, and that simply is not the case. Thus so, if he can't do it there, then it should bring light to the truths of the matter that will not be able to do it in any presidential role. He has to understand, He can't slam democrats on some things, and then want the party to toss over its power and resources, just because he needs to hitch a ride on a platform.

In the climate of the extremes today.... Society is not going to go far left, and society is not going to accept a sharp turn to the claims of "socialist", because half the people don't even understand the usage of the term "socialist"... He has not taken the time to "explain" what is a "Democratic Socialist from the Stand point of an Independent. Some of his ideas are good.... but some are simply not going to happen in this day and time, when we have a system with such an extreme right wing that has devoted itself to "cultist melodrama and fictions of regressing back to the 1950's as we've seen and continue to see in many of the Right Wing mindsets.

He awakened young people to politic's and that a big plus for him, but not to lead them with pipe dreams as if he can "flip America on a pin head"... because that is not how Nations function. Life and the growth of Nations is a step process, and rebuilding economic "all across America" is a step process.
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Sanders is the only candidate.

Gabbard is a close second.

Sanders/gabbard 2020 demolishes the backwater theocrats pence and drumpf.
 
Obscurity said:
Sanders is the only candidate.

Gabbard is a close second.

Sanders/gabbard 2020 demolishes the backwater theocrats pence and drumpf.
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Black people do not like Sanders. Trump's numbers with the minorities are increasing while minorities look at Sanders campaign with dismay.
 
Sanders time has come and gone. That is sad for America since he would have beaten Trump and been a great president. But the Democratic Party needs to build around a younger figure in much the same way they did in 1960 with John Kennedy.
 
Abbazorkzog said:
Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog

February 19, 20196:22 AM ET

SCOTT DETROW

JESSICA TAYLOR

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I don't care who it is in 2020. Get the Orange Trumpet OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
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When I look at the upcoming presidential election, I tend to toss Republicans and Democrats out of the mix. I concentrate on independents. Independents are the one's who put Trump into the White House in 2016. Although 57% of independents disliked Trump, 70% disliked Hillary which caused independents to vote for Trump as the candidate they least wanted to lose. In plain English, independents wanted Hillary to lose more than they wanted Trump to lose. They really didn't want either one. But that was the choices given. Questions 10 and 11.

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I think the Democrats have to be careful as to nominate someone that can attract the independent vote. They failed miserably in 2016. Ignoring independents, they make up approximately 40% of the total electorate could mean a second Trump term. Of course it is the Democrats right to do so. No one disputes that.

It's early as to give you a run down on how independents view those who have announced. If you want Trump out, a word of advice. Be careful not to nominate another Hillary Clinton type candidate or someone from the far, wacko left. Independents are somewhere in-between the two major parties ideology wise. They vote more for or against a candidate than a political party. If I were a Democrat I'd be looking for a fresh young face ala, Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter. The old been around forever faces lost, Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Mondale.
 
Bucky said:
Black people do not like Sanders. Trump's numbers with the minorities are increasing while minorities look at Sanders campaign with dismay.
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I don't know if Independents truly grasp the levels and functions of racism, when they say, "minorities would have the same opportunity without Affirmative actions having been put in place (When we look at reality still in this day and time and the rise of racism, its hard to make such a claim, considering that we still have much work as a nation to do when it comes to racial understanding and racial acceptance of the full spectrum of Diversity in the American population).
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Although Independents wants to change and address Affirmative Actions, they do however acknowledge.

This ideal of Independents that cause the concerns
"we are conscious of the fact that the history of slavery and racial discrimination has left a deep scar on America. We think the fairest way to deal with that history, and the thousands of other uniquely personal events that may handicap individuals of any race who are starting out in life, is through government support for effective elementary and secondary education and financial support for low income students seeking post secondary education."
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The elements of Affirmative Actions is bigger than just that....
 
RealityNow said:
Although Independents wants to change and address Affirmative Actions, they do however acknowledge.



The elements of Affirmative Actions is bigger than just that....
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great post my friend!
 
Bucky said:
Black people do not like Sanders. Trump's numbers with the minorities are increasing while minorities look at Sanders campaign with dismay.
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Black folks didn't like him after BLM sabotaged one of his speeches and claimed all lives matter wasn't good enough.

He wins, just like he would have won in 2016.

Sanders carries the MW and PA, which eliminates trumps path to win. If the DNC is smart, they select sanders.
 
Obscurity said:
Black folks didn't like him after BLM sabotaged one of his speeches and claimed all lives matter wasn't good enough.

He wins, just like he would have won in 2016.

Sanders carries the MW and PA, which eliminates trumps path to win. If the DNC is smart, they select sanders.
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"he would have won in 2016"

He didn't though, that's a fact.
 
Bucky said:
"he would have won in 2016"

He didn't though, that's a fact.
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No ****, you tend to lose when you are sabotaged and threatened and torpedoed by one of the largest fund raising machines on earth decides it wants to pick someone else.

Mark my words; Sanders wins over Trump. Every day.
 
Obscurity said:
No ****, you tend to lose when you are sabotaged and threatened and torpedoed by one of the largest fund raising machines on earth decides it wants to pick someone else.

Mark my words; Sanders wins over Trump. Every day.
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Who cares my friend? Chris Christie would have beaten Obama in 2012.

The results are the results.
 
Obscurity said:
No ****, you tend to lose when you are sabotaged and threatened and torpedoed by one of the largest fund raising machines on earth decides it wants to pick someone else.

Mark my words; Sanders wins over Trump. Every day.
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Wait a minute. Are you saying the DNC colluded against Bernie Sanders?

That's quite an accusation. Maybe deserving of some sort of investigation?
 
Abbazorkzog said:
Bernie Sanders Enters 2020 Presidential Campaign, No Longer An Underdog

February 19, 20196:22 AM ET

SCOTT DETROW

JESSICA TAYLOR

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I don't care who it is in 2020. Get the Orange Trumpet OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
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Aw yes, let the radicalization of the country continue. Trump because of the economic results being generated and the fact that he isn't a politician has to get out of the WH so we can have someone we like, someone who tells you what you want to hear, and someone who never generates any results that benefit the American people

Personality is the most important factor in electing a President as results don't matter but what does is how we feel.

Radical liberalism on full display here with the slate of Democratic Presidential candidates all trying to appeal to a faction of this country that isn't in the majority, socialism and massive central gov't.
 
He's late to the party, much too late.

Sanders is like a bad joke that keeps resurfacing. From one old man to another Bernie, it is time to put dreams to rest. You scare more than half the nation, few could be more decisive than you. You run, Trump wins without campaigning.
 
Bucky said:
Wait a minute. Are you saying the DNC colluded against Bernie Sanders?

That's quite an accusation. Maybe deserving of some sort of investigation?
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The DNC wanted its social justice trophy, and you know that. They thought that alone would carry the hideous autocrat they chose to the finish line, you also know that. I am astounded at the hypocrisy and the chicanery of the DNC. Look at how they are torpedoing Tulsi.
 
I think the democrat party has "progressed" since the last election to the point where Sanders simply isn't diverse enough to qualify.
 
I backed Hilldog last time around, my mistake. This time I will back the best canidate to beat Trump. At this point it looks like Sanders. At least the guy is honest, no skeletons, and can act professional. That alone is a step up from Rump.
 
yankintx said:
I backed Hilldog last time around, my mistake. This time I will back the best canidate to beat Trump. At this point it looks like Sanders. At least the guy is honest, no skeletons, and can act professional. That alone is a step up from Rump.
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I'll back whoever gets the nomination. If Dems are smart, they will too. They would look especially silly and pathetic to allow another 2016 primary to happen.
 
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