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StarfishSaver's JournalJonathan Chait: "Why Can't Bernie Accept That Democratic Voters Didn't Want Him?"
The Bernie Sanders movement has mostly accepted the finality of Bidens victory. What it hasnt come to terms with is its causes. The Sanders campaign and many of its enthusiasts continue to see Bidens victory as either a fluke or a plot.
Sanders advisers told the New York Times they believed they had been on the precipice of sweeping to victory on Super Tuesday, until Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropped out and endorsed Biden. Ben Tulchin, a Sanders pollster, claimed the candidate was on the brink of winning until the most unprecedented event in the history of presidential primaries occurred.
It is hardly unprecedented for the fifth- and sixth-place candidates to drop out of a race after four primaries. Yet Sanders himself has fixated on this decision as evidence of an Establishment conspiracy. Appearing on ABCs This Week several days later, he described it as the power of the Establishment to force Amy Klobuchar, who had worked so hard, Pete Buttigieg, who had really worked extremely hard as well, out of the race.
From Bernies perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they dont want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-primary-joe-biden-2020-voters-establishment.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1
Sanders: "Stay away from me"
https://twitter.com/AnnieGrayerCNN/status/1242168259392278529Annie Grayer
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Via @tedbarrettcnn on the Hill w/ @BernieSanders: when asked to explain how his absence from the Senate was consistent w/ his efforts to address the crisis, Sanders accused a reporter of standing too close to him:
"Stay away from me. There's CDC requirement. Please follow it.
There's always a tweet, isn't there?
This from the woman who gave her all to warn us about him and this: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/762739172054601728
Sanders problem in a nutshell:
Responding to a question about why he hasn't gotten the support of black voters with a rambling answer about the need for enthusiastic cross-generational support and how much Hispanic voters love him - and, oops, not bothering to mention black voters at all.
Fail.
Bernie really is a one-trick pony
The discussion is about how to deal with the coronavirus crisis - yet somehow, he managed to get back to his billionaires stump speech.
Try to focus, Bernie!
Maybe be all of these infected foreign leaders are getting it from Trump
He's looking more and more like Patient 1 every day ...
Biden: I want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and passion
We share a common goal and together, well defeat Donald Trump. Well defeat him together.
Sanders: "We are winning the generational debate. While Joe Biden continues to do very well with older Americans, especially those people over 65, our campaign continues to win the vast majority of the votes of younger people ... Today, I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country ... You cannot simply be satisfied by winning the votes of people who are older ... Let me be very frank as to the questions I will be asking Joe."
Richard Marx ... that is all. Just Richard Marx
https://twitter.com/richardmarx/status/1237647398853152768https://twitter.com/bob_tona/status/1237646804201734147
Richard Marx: I dont care if youre a Trumpkin or a Berner. Its 2020 and Google has been a thing for 22 years. If you still dont know your from youre its strictly because youre a willfully ignorant and stupid fuck.
Bob Tona: What songs do you sing?
Richard Marx: The ones your girl f*cked to before she met you.
Bernie's made it clear: He's NEVER going away
Great.
His "questions" to Biden are ridiculous coming from a man who has been in the House and Senate for the past several decades.
He needs to talk about what HE plans to do, not demand that Biden answer his questions.
Actually, he needs to drop out. But that's clearly not going to happen.
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