Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: "I don't consider myself a Democrat" From 2017.. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Because you know, and I know, and everyone who knows anything knows...that those that voted for Trump, who purported to support Sanders, were never going to vote for Hillary anyways. Thus they were no (substantial) lost votes!
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
Party seems to have had something to do with it Sanders-Trump voters were much less likely than Sanders-Clinton or Sanders-third party voters to have been Democrats.
Which brings me to your defeated argument. That IF those disaffected independent voters actually had a candidate like Sanders this time round to vote for, (even if we are both confused as to why someone would ever consider Trump and Sanders in the same sentence) a vote is a vote. And Democrats would get thousands, if not millions more votes cured from these confused independents. All that matters is if we win. And putting up yet another establishment candidate will only solidify their re-vote for Trump and without them we will never beat the Trump/Fox machine.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided