'He is not going to be the nominee': Dems slam Sanders over Maduro stance

[EricMaundry]

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Source: Politico

Florida Democrats are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for refusing to call Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a dictator — a politically explosive issue in the nation’s biggest swing state.

Sanders also would not say whether he considered Venezuela’s assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, as the nation’s interim president, which is the position of the United States and a majority of Latin American countries European countries.

Both of Sanders’ positions play into the hands of President Trump and the GOP, say Democrats. The president just held a rally in Miami on Monday to denounce Maduro and socialism, an appeal to the state’s growing block of Venezuelan-American voters. Many Venezuelans have flocked to the state as the country’s economy crashed and repression increased.

Democrats, already alarmed that Trump’s inroads with Venezuelans could help him peel off an otherwise-reliable Democratic voting bloc in a toss-up state, were quick to denounce Sanders’ comments. “He is not going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. He has demonstrated again that he does not understand this situation,” Rep. Donna Shalala, a Miami Democrat who represents Venezuelan exiles and, told POLITICO. “I absolutely disagree with his imprecision in not saying Maduro must go.” Shalala has filed legislation aimed at helping Venezuelan immigrants.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/bernie-sanders-venezuela-maduro-1179636

[DetlefK]

1. It's fascinating how many on the left are willing to tolerate socialist dictators.

I remember the Gaddafi-apologists here on DU. "Gaddafi did so much for his country and his people!"

Yes... but he also financed international terrorism, fought the free press in Libya, installed an undemocratic election-system in Syria, oppressed his own people via violence, and lived in gaudy palaces while his people were dirt-poor.

It's somehow okay to be a dictator as long as you are a socialist dictator.





Do you know why there were racial hate-crimes against blacks in Libya after Gaddafi had been toppled? Because Libyans are arabic-looking and Gaddafi had hired black african mercenaries to oppress his own people.

[stonecutter357]

2. The Democratic Primaries forum are open !

[flotsam]

3. This is Bullshit

Probably higher but 2010 census shows around 100,000 Venezuelans in Florida making 0.5 % of the population-and Florida is the only state with over 0.1% as a population. So how does 0.5% of a state plus one paid shill equal THE "Florida Democrats"?

[genxlib]

4. It's not only Venezuelans

All South and Central Americans are tuned into this issue and most of them are really sensitive to socialist dictators. Cubans in particular.

[Skinner]

5. Locking

Threads about the Democratic primary belong in the Democratic Primaries forum.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1287