Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The benefit of the Democrats denouncing Sanders's selfishness [View all]Gothmog
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The facts are that the primary is over and sanders lost due to the fact that African American voters rejected sanders and supported Joe Biden. Now that it is clear that sanders will not be the nominee, sanders supporters are demanding that their demands be met or they will vote for trump. We are fortunate in that there are studies who looked at the reasons why sanders supporters voted for trump in 2016 and these studies show that the sanders supporters who voted for trump in 2016 (i) were not really members of the Democratic Party, (ii) hated President Obama and (iii) were racists. sanders movement appealed to these voters in part because sanders was not a fan of President Obama and in fact wanted to primary President Obama.
Now we are being told that we need to appease these racists sanders voters and that such voters are more important than the vast majority of the party who have rejected sanders and who are supporting Joe Biden. I really think that it is a waste of time to try to win the support of racist sander supporters and I prefer to focus on turning out the vote of real Democrats such as African American voters.
How do you propose to win the support of the racists white sanders supporters who are threatening to vote for trump? Why are these voters more important than the vote of real Democrats such as African Americans?
I live and work in the real world. I am glad that Joe Biden is going to be the nominee because having a weak candidate like sanders at the top of the ticked would kill down ballot candidates in Texas. Following the 2010 elections, we had 101 republicans compared to 49 Democrats in the Texas state house. Now we need 9 seats to flip control of the Texas house and to be able to control redistricting following the 2020 census (Texas may pick up three more congressional seats). There are 10 GOP state house seats that Beto won in 2018 that the party is focusing on. We picked up 2 congressional seats in Texas in 2018 (Colin Allred and Lizzie Fletcher) The DCCC has targeted 7 seats and I am working hard on the campaign for one of these seats. Having Joe on the top of the ticket is going to be a big help in contesting these seats.
The real world is a nice place where fact matter. I like living and working in the real world.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden