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Joe BidenCongratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
 

TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
6. In Fairness to Hillary Clinton, At The Time She Made...
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 10:12 PM
Mar 2020

...her concessions to BS, we did not know that BS would string her along or that his campaign would backstab her by having Bernie's surrogates loudly announce after they participated in writing the platform that they would nonetheless not support the Democratic nominee. In other words, the whole point of having folks like Cornell West, who has been hostile to the Democratic party, on the DNC platform committee was so that they would support a unified party going into an election with Trump.

Now, knowing that you cannot trust BS, Biden should not repeat what in hindsight was a mistake. After 2016, BS's supports have continued to attack the Democratic party and it is now clear that this one of the primary movers behind Bernie's campaign, which is to attack the Democratic party. In the end, there is no way to reconcile this, since many Bernie supporters will vote for Trump, not based on ideology, but because they have bought into BS's repeated attacks on Democrats.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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