Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign megathread

[OneJ]

Wonderful!

[OneJ]

A lot of hot takes here for sure.

[OneJ]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1097881486588444673

Beautiful numbers in such a short period.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1097881486588444673

> Harris raises $1.5M during the weekend following her announcement
"Harris has the winning formula for this election. She is clearly the future of the party."

> Sanders raises $1M in 3.5 hours following his announcement
"This is a cult and his supporters are fools."

Quite accurate.

[OneJ]

Bernie once again trying to court the elusive "White working class" is exactly why he lost the primary in 2016 not because it was rigged.

Focusing on predominantly White and very rural states and not focusing on the base of Democratic Party combined with the fact that there are much more candidates running is exactly why Bernie's campaign will fail just like it did in 2016.

I can't wait to never have to here about Bernie Sanders ever again. It will be a blessing!

Or Bernie can just scoot by winning 30-40% of the vote in states while Booker, Harris, Klobuchar, Biden and O'Rourke all eat away at each other.

(pssst, it's how Trump won the GOP primary in 2016)

It's not gonna work that way. There are a lot of anti-Bernie Democrats that will consolidate to not let that happen.

That doesn't even work that way. The #NeverBernie crowd that you might see on Twitter is a pretty vocal minority just like the Bernie Bros.

[OneJ]

Bernie’s announcement video has now surpassed Harris’, currently at 4.3 million views on Twitter. Here are the others for comparison:

Harris: 4.2M
Booker: 4M
Warren: 3.8M
Buttigieg: 1M
Gabbard: 625K
Gillibrand: 418K
Klobuchar: 150K

[OneJ]

I’m sorry GoTfan but no the threads attacking Kamala over truancy jailing when dozens of other states and their AGs do the same, calling her “the anointed one”, or attacking her over Trump giving her 8 grand back in 2013 when he did that all the time and also in the world of political donations that isn’t a lot are not legitimate at all and are just people who don’t like her (mainly Berniebros sadly) finding an excuse to rip on her

The exact same could be said for the anti bernie crowd

Yeah lol. The hardcore Kamalers have literally been acting like Bernie is a homophobic, racist card-carrying NRA member or something.

I was going to say something similar considering the amount of negative tweets about Bernie running and many of them just so happen to be Harris’ supporters.

[OneJ]

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1099380342018912257

Good on Bernie for standing against dictators. Shame most of the responses are deranged tankie maniacs who are now calling Bernie a pawn of Dick Cheney. Socialist apologism for Maduro is disgusting.

I wonder how they think foreign policy overall should be handled because chances are their views on it aren’t that great.

[OneJ]

Here is what the crowd looked like from an aerial view:

https://twitter.com/AriRabinHavt/status/1101904663002136577

[OneJ]

Here's a live stream of his Chicago rally: https://abc7chicago.com/politics/watch-live-bernie-sanders-holds-campaign-rally-at-navy-pier/5165284/

Does anyone know when the next big rally held by any presidential candidate?

[OneJ]

Here's a live stream of his Chicago rally: https://abc7chicago.com/politics/watch-live-bernie-sanders-holds-campaign-rally-at-navy-pier/5165284/

Does anyone know when the next big rally held by any presidential candidate?

I know that Sanders will be holding three more in Iowa on March 7th-9th.

Thanks!

[OneJ]

The unfortunate thing about Warren is that some voters feel that she probably has the best policies and that she might have been their first choice if they didn’t have electability concerns about her.

[OneJ]

1. Crowds obviously don’t equal votes. HRC ‘16 supporters have said this for the longest.
2. I like how some people use this argument specifically for Bernie, but will be the first ones to boast about crowd sizes for Beto, Harris, and probably Biden when he runs, lol.

[OneJ]

Bernie announces $18.2 million haul in Q1

Definitely makes Kamala’s $12 million look better.

Is it worth mentioning that the average contribution is about $20?

I would think so.

It’s also not very impressive on Harris’ behalf getting less individual donors than Pete to be honest and Bernie’s individual donors were still way ahead of everyone else’s so far.

[OneJ]

People are seriously upset with him going to Fox? There are other issues way more important than this that are Ctually worth getting pressed about.

[OneJ]

I can't be the only Democrat who feels Bernie is the best asset the Republicans have. He's basically a literal cartoon of everything Democrats have been accused of being for the past 50-60 years.

Republicans have been calling Democrats socialists since like the Great Depression.

[OneJ]

The whole Democrats are for open borders thing is one of the most over-exaggerated talking points yet.

[OneJ]

https://twitter.com/RobGeorge/status/1123297431054159878

This is an interesting take, it is probably one of the worst polled issues Bernie has taken a stance on, and it was highly publicized. Think Biden's entry is masking some of the backlash he's gotten on it.

1. I doubt that’s why Bernie’s slipped though. I think the reason he might’ve slipped is some of his “weak” supporters are going to Joe. It makes a lot of sense to me as a plurality of Sanders and Biden supporters rank the both of them as their second choices. I also don’t think Sanders’ answer was publicized that much.

2. Other polling (although it was like one poll) showed that the majority of voters, at different degrees, support felons voting.

[OneJ]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1141397029891039240?s=21

[OneJ]

Bernie felt far younger than Biden last night.

I agree with this.

[OneJ]

I have a real fear that Sanders is going to end up preventing Warren from consolidating the left's vote and will enable Biden to get the nomination because of a divided opposition.  Wouldn't it be ironic if Sanders's lasting impact was to help elevate Biden's retrograde centrism? 

A lot of Bernie supporters second choice is actually Biden. Ideology isn't nearly as big of a factor in people's votes as people on this forum think. Some polls say that a plurality of Bernie's supporters would go to Biden if he dropped out.

See that's the thing. Even Warren and Sanders supporters don't look much like each other. Sanders does well with non-college educated voters (white or not), non-white voters, and voters with lower income. Warren's base is the opposite: College educated whites, lower numbers of non-whites, and higher numbers of people with higher incomes.

What DTC said shows that the Democratic primary is very fluid and that voters do not always vote "how they're supposed to." There are other factors besides ideology, identity, etc. to take into account.