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Sanders canvassers told to target Trump backers
The Hill's Ballot Box ^ | December 30, 2015 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 12/31/2015 12:17:54 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Canvassers working on the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are being instructed to sell their candidate to Donald Trump supporters.

The campaign provided them a specific script to use when encountered by people who say they back the billionaire Republican businessman.

"A lot of people feel like this country isn't working for them -- because it's not," Sanders canvassers are instructed to say, according to a copy of the script obtained by MSNBC. "[T]he solution is not to turn to someone like Trump, with a message of hate, xenophobia, and division -- it's to elect a leader with integrity like Bernie, who's proven time and again that he won't be held hostage by moneyed special interests," it continues.

"That's the right way to address the challenges we face."

The internal memo reflects recent public appeals made by Sanders to Trump supporters.

"What Trump has done with some success is taken that anger, taken those fears which are legitimate, and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims," Sanders said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."

"I think for his working-class and middle-class supporters, I think we can make the case that if we really want to address the issues that people are concerned about ... we need policies that bring us together," he added.

Trump earlier this week called Sanders "a wacko" but maintained he would be able to poach his supporters.

"Strange, but I see wacko Bernie Sanders' allies coming over to me because I'm lowering taxes, while he will double and triple them - a disaster!" Trump tweeted.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: drugsarebad; lol; mmmmkay; sanders; trump

1 posted on 12/31/2015 12:17:54 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just saying.

That works right back, in reverse.


2 posted on 12/31/2015 12:22:13 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance./c5700.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, like voting for a STINKING SOCIALIST/MARXIST, who wants to raise my taxes to 90% ?

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

3 posted on 12/31/2015 12:27:55 AM PST by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bernie sounds a lot like Homer Simpson Sanitation Commissioner, the Candy Man, or Bon Scott's final title track.
4 posted on 12/31/2015 12:29:21 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: nopardons

Yeah, fat chance. Like we’re gonna fall for Comrade Bernie.

Hahahahahaahahahaha.


5 posted on 12/31/2015 12:31:13 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris
I just wish one of his brain dead supporters would talk to me! I'd have him or her voting for Trump in 10-15 minutes tops. ;^)

Bernie is NUTS !

6 posted on 12/31/2015 12:34:04 AM PST by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I still can't understand where you're gonna get the money for all this free stuff you're talking about.


7 posted on 12/31/2015 12:46:55 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Onambla: Marxist-Muslim crack-smoking closet queen Exp 1-20-17)
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To: nopardons
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, like voting for a STINKING SOCIALIST/MARXIST, who wants to raise my taxes to 90% ?

Bernie, I believe, thinks Trump supporters constitute some kind of proletariat.

He doesn't realize that most of you are actually kulaks...or worse, bourgoisie...and will have to be killed off if he were to win.

8 posted on 12/31/2015 12:49:38 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

That’s true. LOL


9 posted on 12/31/2015 12:52:25 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

“I just wish one of his brain dead supporters would talk to me! I’d have him or her voting for Trump in 10-15 minutes tops. ;^)”

***

Bernie’s supporters consist primarily of old time socialists and twenty something unemployed liberal arts college graduates living in Mom’s basement. Try explaining to them that the free stuff isn’t free, that someone somewhere has to pay for it. They are sure it won’t be them. The blank stare you will get is astounding. These idiots aren’t going to vote for some rich white dude who believes in working for what you want or need.


10 posted on 12/31/2015 1:30:49 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Oh please oh please oh PLEASE!!! let one come to my door.

/the Dobes have been mighty bored


11 posted on 12/31/2015 1:37:15 AM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the night may pass me by, but I never cry...)
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To: fatnotlazy; nopardons

You can’t actually change their dysfunctional minds.

Release the hounds.

Have a little fun with it.

:)


12 posted on 12/31/2015 1:38:58 AM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the night may pass me by, but I never cry...)
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To: fatnotlazy

Many long decades ago, I actually had a verbal duel with a card carrying Commie, whilst waiting in line to vote, in Greenwich Village. It was a VERY long line and I did get her to “see the light”. If it stuck, or not, I don’t know, but she was probably a whole lot more intelligent than Bernie and all of his supporters put together.


13 posted on 12/31/2015 12:09:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Salamander

I’d still like a try at ‘em, but I guess I need to borrow your dogs and a snake. :-)


14 posted on 12/31/2015 12:10:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Salamander

So this explains my formal invitation. You are looking for new chew toys. ;)


15 posted on 12/31/2015 2:22:01 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: nopardons

Yes, yes he is. That quote he made about women ought to be enough proof.


16 posted on 12/31/2015 2:46:28 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: fatnotlazy
...twenty something unemployed liberal arts college graduates living in Mom's basement...

I know a few people in that age bracket and every one is conservative, or close to it. One talks just like a FReeper and likes Trump, I will have to get him to sign up. Another is really worried about Obama and gun confiscation, I can tell the people he works with are educating him.

There is hope.

17 posted on 12/31/2015 3:01:22 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: SaveFerris
True!

And what he said about how Trump's supporters are his natural supporters to, proves, yet again, that old Bernie is just out of his tiny mind.

18 posted on 12/31/2015 3:11:34 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fresh Wind

I wasn’t talking about all young people — just the ones mesmerized by Sanders. Their devotion is so firmly entrenched thanks to public school and liberal college education, it’s difficult if not impossible to persuade them otherwise.

You are right that there are many young people who can think for themselves. Unfortunately, that ability is usually not being taught anymore. Only good parenting can counteract the brainwashing.


19 posted on 01/01/2016 1:12:03 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
20 posted on 01/01/2016 9:38:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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