Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign megathread

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...How soon?

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Why does Bernie want to split the leftist vote? Does he really think he's the only candidate of sufficient purity? If he truly values the long-term strength of his cause, he'll endorse someone younger and fresher and not just hog his hardline supporters from other candidates who agree with him on practically every major issue.

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I really don't understand this forum's visceral hatred of Bernie Sanders.

We all receive monthly checks by the US Chamber of Commerce and the corporate media to slander him.

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I'm glad he's running. Bernie's candidacy should be allowed to collapse on its own and not be the result of intimidation from the establishment.

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NYT reported Sanders raised 5.9/6M odd in 24 hours with 225,000 individual donations. That is incredible. Sanders has raised 4 times as the next best in Kamala Harris & has 6 times the number of donations as Harris. Ofcourse the others are nowhere near including Warren.

People forget how huge Fundraising is going to be to compete in Super Tuesday. Texas & California will be in play as will many other states. It will require huge money to compete in Texas & California. Most candidates will probably not have the money to continue beyond Iowa.

Also Booker, Harris, Gillibrand, Warren etc have also taken pledge to not accept PAC money so I don't know how Booker or Gillibrand funds their campaign with such low individual donations.

Sanders is also the only candidate with a pre-existing nationwide fundraising apparatus. It's an impressive first day, but it wasn't out-of-the-blue, and it remains to be seen what pace he can keep up on fundraising for the rest of the campaign, as is really the case with all of the candidates at this point.

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A Sanders vs Trump debate would be something to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Poi5x0E2CM

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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.

Some of my true leftist friends were horrified when I tried to tell them Bernie's foreign policy is basically just a slightly revised version of Clinton's foreign policy. This is what it looks like when he tells them that instead of me.

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Bernie hires undocumented woman as his deputy press secretary.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/432156-sanders-hires-undocumented-immigrant-as-deputy-press-secretary-for-2020

Wow, he's trying really hard to appeal to minorities.

He thinks his constituency is what Republicans say his constituency is.

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Yes, the debates are the best hope for folks like Warren and Booker to break through. Of course most people watching do not care about the policy specifics being discussed but how the media dissects their performance and if they get good zingers in.

Warren going after Bernie is what I most look forward to.

If any of the other candidates were smart, they would almost exclusively focus on attacking him and Biden in the debates. They ought to make an alliance.

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https://www.twitter.com/thehill/status/1115709362864046080

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https://twitter.com/paulheintz/status/1117083572152799240


Major hypocrisy for the fake populist. Now a living millionaire whose representing well to do leftists in Williamsburg.

Being a millionaire doesn't automatically mean he's a "fake populist".

News flash: most major political figures are far wealthier than the average American.

Most major political figures don't base their entire politicial career on criticizing millionaires and billionaires. I don't have any issue with Bernie being a millionaire. I do have an issue with him and his supporters placing a blanket blame for America's problems on the 1% while their leader is literally a member of the 1%.

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Sanders officially endorsing Newman over Lipinski.

It's his first congressional endorsement of the cycle. Third presidential candidate to back Newman after Gillibrand and Inslee.

Sanders copying the homework of the blonde girl from New York yet again.

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Hillary supporters essentially elected Trump by knowingly supporting an unelectable candidate whose policies caused millions to die.

In a way they are closet racists or atleast responsible for most of Trump's policies. At the very least they should apologize for enabling murder & racism.

Bernie supporters essentially nominated Hillary by knowingly supporting an un-nominatable candidate whose policies caused millions to die.

In a way they are closet neoliberal corporatist warmongers or atleast responsible for most of Hillary's actions as a nominee. At the very least they should apologize for enabling Trump's election.