I wonder what Sanders supporters are going to do now.

[TNNurse]

There are lots of very serious issues in this election.

There is one that in my opinion eclipses all others.

We must get Trump and his criminal administration out of office.

If Sanders won the nomination, I would vote for him.

If any of the Democrats running won, I would vote for them.

In 2016, there were some Sanders supporters who were verbal about their reluctance to vote for Clinton and some apparently voted for third party candidates.

I just wonder where the Sanders supporters are now. Are they going to vote for Biden if he is the candidate?

[getagrip_already]

1. they are already doing it! Pushing the dimentia BS!!!!

Just read the bernie should stay in thread. They say we need a debate so joe can prove he isn't senile.

Bullshit. We'v had 5 friggin debates and countless town halls and interviews. Sharp as a tack.

They will never get enough. Until trump is re-elected that is.

This has to end now or they will end up helping trump to re-election.

[needledriver]

24. I'm not saying that for Sanders' sake

If the Biden campaign does not get a firm handle on the whole dementia angle, it will turn into Joe’s version of “her emails” AKA The Lie That Wouldn’t Die.

[getagrip_already]

25. pardon me - but that smacks of...

concern troll. It is obvious he isn't suffering any incapacity.

That doesn't mean trump won't keep repeating it, but the dems should just stfu and not keep repeating it as though it's a possible thing. it isn't.

You might as well say he was born in kenya. Some people will never see reality. Stop repeating the lie.

[sop]

28. Anyone who saw Joe's address last night understands this is just more BS from BS

[TwilightZone]

2. Most of them will. Some of them won't.

Some of them we likely never going to vote for anyone other than Sanders. Polls showed that pretty clearly.

Happens every election, so we just have to deal with it and move on.

[zackymilly]

3. Vote for Biden.

I saw a survey somewhere yesterday that said 3 in 10 Sanders' supporters polled said they wouldn't vote for Biden.

[MineralMan]

4. Most will support Biden in his bid to unseat Trump.

A few, of course, will continue fighting and dissing Biden. That is certain. We have to let that go by and focus on the real goal.

[TNNurse]

5. There is no more urgent goal than getting rid of Trump.

Nothing will improve until we do.

[jimfields33]

6. Well do what we always do vote.

It seems like every election, progressives have to compromise. It’d be nice for Biden moderate supporters would have to do it once in awhile. Oh well.

[subana]

12. welcome to the real world!

compromise is how politics is done! No one ever gets everything they want in politics but hopefully you get the most important things to you. If not, you keep fighting.

[jimfields33]

16. Says the person who got what they wanted. Nice for you.

Must be so nice and privileged.

[HarlanPepper]

20. Sour grapes.

[jimfields33]

22. Sadly for the entire country.

[HarlanPepper]

23. Nah, Democrats are feeling pretty good.

[jimfields33]

32. True. Sanders just gave the best speech of his career!!!!

[HarlanPepper]

33. Yes, he is losing but he is winning!1!

It's going to be fun watching him get pummeled again next week.

[jimfields33]

36. Boo!

[sop]

38. It was a "burn it all down if my followers don't get what they want" kind of speech

[jimfields33]

40. I thought it was a good list to help out Biden on Sunday to answer some serious issues

[HarlanPepper]

41. As if those questions could ever be answered to a Sanders supporter's satisfaction.

[subana]

27. I didn't in 2016!

I voted for Hillary then. I know how disappointing it can feel to realize you may not win this one. It can be very depressing. But extreme positions like too far left or too far right are never going to give you a winning campaign (especially not in a national campaign) because that's not where a majority of the country is.

If my earlier message sounded arrogant, I'm sorry.

[OAITW r.2.0]

34. If the choice were Sanders vs. Biden in the GE....you'd have a point.

But it won't be (unless, of course, Bernie's takes his campaign to the GE as an Independent). Should he do that, it will be 2000 all over again.

[jimfields33]

37. I'd be completely shocked if he did that

With AOC saying she’d support eventual nominee. I’d say that goes down to 1 percent.

[Codeine]

60. All you've got to do is win the primary.

Then we’ll all vote for your guy.

[subana]

7. anyone who doesn't vote or...

...votes for anyone else except Biden needs to understand it's essentially a vote for Trump because it makes it a little more likely that he could get enough votes to win or that it's more likely that Putin could steal another election for him!!

It's basically a vote for democracy & the rule of law or an immoral outlaw who thinks his opinion overrules any law.

I know it's not easy to vote for the opponent of the guy you wanted but it still has to be done.

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. My informed guess

Sanders supporters will back Biden (assuming he clinches the nomination, which is what I assume) at a higher percentage rate than Clinton supporters backed Obama in 2008.

There are hundreds of millions of Americans, and it takes all types to make a country. Anyone could decide to vote for Sanders one month and flip to Napoleon the next. Before "Bernie or Busters" (Bobs) there were "Party Unity My Assers" (PUMAs) and before that we didn't have cute names for disgruntled nominally Democratic voters flipping sides - but it happens every election.

Don't lose sleep over Progressives not voting for Biden, worry about the casual voters who don't always make it to the polls when push comes to shove. Those with any degree of normal political engagement (and self described progressives usually fall into that category) will overwhelmingly vote to remove Trump from office.

[beachbumbob]

9. true ideologues will do all they can to inflict damage on those who don't support them and their

version of what is important. review 2016, bernie bros, jill stein and the "lesser of 2 evils" mantra

[redstatebluegirl]

10. According to the ones I know the election was stolen by "the establishment".

[luvs2sing]

11. If most of the Bernie supporters are anything..

like most of the ones in my social circle, they will wail and moan and disparage Hillary and blame Obama and Warren, and swear they’ll never vote against the revolution. I have some seriously obsessed Bernie supporters in my group whose words and actions and insults turned me against him.

I do know several who are considering their positions thoughtfully and have said they will probably vote blue no matter who, and are not tearing down any other candidate, but most Bernie supporters I know not only drank the Koolaid in 2016, they are mainlining it to this day. I do worry about them.

[abqtommy]

13. It's obvious to me that some Bernie supporters are going to continue to beat up on the Bidens,

literally and figuratively unless we give them some serious reasons to stop...

[TNNurse]

14. There is already a serious reason....

Donald Trump.

[abqtommy]

17. The "some Bernie supporters" I'm referring to obviously consider Joe and Jill Biden to be their

enemy, not tRUMP. How else to explain the very real physical assault on Jill Biden? Look it up...

[Sapient Donkey]

39. Are you referring to the vegans who got up on stage?

I don't think it's fair to classify them as Bernie supporters if so. I mean, they may be berniecrats, but that isn't why they did their aggressive protest. If it's something else, do you have any more specifics on that?

[Sapient Donkey]

44. Ohh, I haven't heard that yet. I'll have to look for it myself too.

[abqtommy]

45. I've GOT to start saving everything of interest I come across...happy hunting!

[abqtommy]

54. I found this at link*. In this Politico story it's Symone Sanders that was knocked down at the

Detroit rally on Monday then it was the following day that she defended Joe onstage... This is the story
I remember seeing but I remembered Jill Biden when it should have been Symone Sanders.

* https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/joe-biden-detroit-protests-sanders-124874

[pampango]

15. Do what most of us did in 2016, vote for the Democrat.

Some probably found Trump to be an unknown quantity who could be all things to all people. "How bad could he be? He's an outsider who talks a good populist game. Maybe he will be OK."

No one with any sense - which excludes his 35% base, of course - views him as an unknown quantity anymore. Any liberal, progressive or moderate who votes for him (or any third party candidate) must know the consequence of what they are doing.

[Sapient Donkey]

42. Unfortunately there are a lot of loud voices on social media (namely twitter)

who take the opposite view that you're taking. I'm sure it's a mix of real people, opposition trolls & bots, and just run of the mill trolls stirring the pot, and I am sure their numbers are much smaller than the more rational bernie supporters like yourself. But they are really loud and they have a way of making themselves seem like a major force that is going to continue to work against Biden getting elected. As a Bernie supporter, do you have tactics you use when come across people like that? I'm trying to figure out if it's best to ignore them, or if it's still a good idea to attempt civil discussion with them despite the fact many who fall into that category tend to not like constructive debate in the same way someone as yourself might. And yeah, I also get equally frustrated with the smaller in number "never bernie" types.

*This is, of course, assuming Biden becomes the nominee.

[Ace Rothstein]

52. Most of the Bernie or Busters were probably never in our tent to begin with.

I don't really think of them as a lost vote for our side.

[Codeine]

62. This.

That crowd isn’t even composed of actual voters, just cranks and malcontents chasing their daily outrage fix.

[Sapient Donkey]

65. You guys are probably right...buuuut

It really really really bothers me when people on the internet are wrong....

I need to stay off social media, I think. If it's not stuff related to the election, then it's someone saying stupid about their favorite event or game being shutdown because of coronavirus. Oh and walmart didn't have any toilet paper. 2020 sucks.

[blueinredohio]

18. I'm always vote blue no matter who.

I voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016. I still like a lot of his ideas but I didn't think he could beat Trump because of the socialist issue. True or not republicans would be spewing bullshit about communism and socialism being the same thing. Also this election he has gotten so for lack of a better word, hateful. He and his staffers are sounding more like Trump, blame somebody else for whatever happens.

[Sherman A1]

19. I voted for Sanders yesterday in Missouri

and will vote for the nominee in November. Between now and then I will do as I did in 2016 tune the entire process out. I don't see Biden (if the nominee) winning in November, but time will tell.

[aikoaiko]

21. Most will vote for Biden if he is the nominee. No one gets all the runner-ups' votes.

It's best, in my opinion, to consider it a non-issue.

Get out the vote, persuade moderates, excite the base, etc.

[showblue22]

48. It looks like the base is super excited.

Voter turn out is up huge. Bernie lost every county in 3 states. The message the voters sent is clear.

[Act_of_Reparation]

26. So we're already hedging our bets, huh?

Great.

[rampartc]

29. trump will be getting my states electors no matter what i do.

if by some miracle louisiana becomes competitive, the election is a landslide and my vote is not needed.

i will never vote for a republican, but please remind me why my vote matters very much?

[CentralMass]

30. I plan to vote for Bernie if he is still on the ballot in Oregon and vote for the nominee in Novembe

[Jirel]

31. End the paranoia about your comrades.

I'm a Berner. I want him to win. He may not. Job #1 is to get Dump out of office. The end.

At this point, virtually everyone I know supports Bernie. All but one of those has a clue and is going to vote for WHOEVER is the nominee. We all totally get it that it is silly to quibble about the good candidate vs. the tolerable one when not voting for the tolerable means we may not have a republic to vote in any more, should the wannabe dictator be re-elected.

The last holdout I am talking about is in her 80s and is hoping that if not Bernie, there will be a revolution. Fat chance. I guess it's nice to be in your 80s, expecting a new dictatorship won't affect you much the rest of your life, and hoping things get so bad (preferably after you're gone) that U.S. citizens will start the next revolutionary war.

Get it?

We do. Do you?

[HarlanPepper]

35. I get that Bernie lost 10 of 14 states last week and 4 of 6 last night.

And will lose many more next week. Do you get that? It's clear you do not.

[Jirel]

63. Not over until it's over.

Neither Bernie nor Biden is anywhere close to having this locked up.

Apparently you are not satisfied by your comrades who do not agree that Joe is the best candidate saying we will support him unconditionally should he get the nom. No, you want us to walk away now, in a race that is still viable, and give over our allegiance immediately. That is how Trump functions. Do not expect it from us. We are patriots with a slightly different vision than yours. Millennials and younger are with Bernie, not Joe. They are the future of the party, where Joe’s strongest supporters are elderly.

Don’t spit in the faces of your allies. We don’t have to be in lock step. Or is the problem that you hate all things Bernie and just can’t accept good will when you see it?

[HarlanPepper]

64. It's over.

Your acceptance of that is not required.

[showblue22]

47. Negative campaigning

is what hurt Bernie. He is not going to win. He needs all the rest of the states by huge margins more than 60%. He only got 51% in his home state of Vermont.

[redstatebluegirl]

46. Throw a temper tantrum and try to bring down Biden and the party.

[HarlanPepper]

49. Burn it all down cuz Bernie.

Same as it ever was.

[LostOne4Ever]

50. I will gladly vote for Biden in the general if he wins the nomination

I voted for Clinton in 2016 against trump and will vote for joe no problem.

What I won’t do is stick around here if it continues to be “We Hate Bernie Underground.”

I like Joe fine, the sore winners who never miss a chance to shove it in our noses and constantly insult and denigrate us are another matter.

[LaurenOlimina]

51. VOTE!

What else is there? Lots of races to support up and down the line.

[Demguy81]

53. Say "damn, that sucks man"

and then go vote for Biden.

[Buzz cook]

55. Continue to suppoer Sanders

What an odd question. By definition Sanders supporters support Sanders. You're asking for that definition to change.

[TNNurse]

56. Guess I expect them to support the Democratic candidate, whomever that is.

[Buzz cook]

58. So there isn't a democratic nominee yet

So once again by definition they can't support one.

Whoever that candidate ends up being he will have to be part of the equation of getting support.

On DU and all the other forums I've visited there has been some form of unity pledge, and with the exception of youtube I haven't seen anyone say they wouldn't vote democratic.

Here on DU you're preaching to the choir, there are no Pumas.

[Todd79]

57. Hackie sack and chill

[NYMinute]

59. The more we worry about Sanders supporters, the more power we give them.

If they want to vote third party and/or Trump, they will be fucking themselves. If they can't understand that then they are a lost cause anyway.

[Codeine]

61. Most will vote Biden.

Those who won’t, well — fuck ‘em. You can’t reach that kind of person so don’t bother trying. Crazy people gonna crazy.

You can’t logic a person out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into.