Posted on 02/21/2020 6:57:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Bernie Sanders’ surge in national polls and success in the early-voting states has Democratic Party elders increasingly concerned about the self-proclaimed democratic socialist’s potential to become their nominee -- as he heads into this weekend's Nevada caucuses with a massive lead and aiming to cement his front-runner status.
Establishment Democrats inside and outside of Washington have sounded the alarms over Sanders’ success, warning that his nomination would pave the way for President Trump's re-election and potentially hurt Democrats' chances of maintaining the majority in the House and taking the majority in the Senate.
Most recently, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., this week appeared to nudge the center-left presidential candidates to eventually coalesce around one candidate who can win enough delegates to secure the nomination.
Former Sen. Reid predicts strong results in diverse states for BidenVideo “A lot of this will work its way out,” he told The Washington Post. “A lot of people in the race still, but they’ll be dropping off quick because the money is running out. So I think you’re going to have the field winnowing pretty quickly.”
He added: “And you have most of the people who are not Bernie Sanders, are people who are moderates, and maybe they’ll work something out to get together and try to find that one person who can come up with the number of delegates. Maybe that’s one way to do it.”
But right now, the non-Sanders candidates are showing no inclination to make way for a consensus pick -- while still warning about the threat that Sanders will win if the field remains this large.
In a memo from former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s campaign ahead of Wednesday’s debate, they warned that Sanders would be nearly unstoppable unless other moderate candidates drop out before Super...
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Throw another popcorn on the barbie
He keeps this up, some BernieBro is gonna take out Harry Roids other eye
Since TN is an open primary state and Trump has a lock on the nomination, I went this afternoon to vote Beanie Boy in early voting. Just doing my part to make it hard on the Dems to not nominate the old fool.
bloomberg thinks everyone else should drop out.
What nerve.
The Lack of Intelligence Community apparently agrees.
If the DNC doesn’t screw Bernie again, it won’t be because they haven’t used every conceivable trick and tactic.
I don’t think the general public has any idea what bernie would do to this country if elected. Just like it had no clue what bammy was going to do, and did, to the country. It’s all about name recognition and personality.
bernie means you don’t get to keep what you earn but some other non-working people who vote democrat get it instead of you.
You are correct.
I dunno why the so-called “party elders” would be rattled. They’re all a bunch of full-blown, rabid communists. They should “come out of the closet” like old Bernie and the gays did. Just come out, admit what they are to the American People, and they’ll then feel better about themselves...and feel better about old Bernie.
Bernie will pick up CA, MA, NY along with couple of others. What more could they possibly want./S....LOL
I don’t think it is fair to call them communists. We cheapen the word by throwing it around, just like they’ve done to the word racist. The Dem establishment insiders are corporate Democrats who are like the Google board of directors- higher taxes and social programs, but far from communism. We need to be more savvy about this and reserve this word for the fringe true believers like Sanders.
“...I don’t think it is fair to call them communists....”
Oh, I do believe it’s very fair to call them what they really are, but hey, I get your point on “cheapening the word”. Kinda like saving that 2nd shot on a double-barrel shotgun for the next go around when a big one might pop out.
How about AINOs? They’re all AINOs: American In Name Only....LOL
The only difference between Bloomberg and Sanders is one wants to buy your vote with his money and the other wants to buy your vote with your money.
I have to agree. They all want to outlaw fracking, outlaw mining, open borders, free everything for illegals, forget the military, fill America with muslims, after birth abortion, on and on. I think Bernie may be the moderate in that bunch.
So MSDNC treated Bernie like a Republican?
I’ll bet it wasn’t half that bad.
Good for you, I’m going to do the same on Super Tues.
Maybe I misread that, who is Beanie Boy?
We should be so lucky. The DNC will make sure this idiot is not the nominee. Same story as last time, super delegates will rally behind another one of the people running, maybe even Biden. LOL
As the unions start looking at the benefits they will lose, if they have to give up their Cadillac health plans and get the same basic medicare-for-all plan as the rest of us serfs, they will start leaving this clown in droves.
Once the DNC screws him, Trumps is guaranteed a win. Sanders supporters will be furious, again & stay home on voting day.
The Democratic insiders want crony capitalism for themselves and Communism for everybody else.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
They are being destroyed by the monster they created
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