Posted on 02/22/2020 3:16:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
MSNBC host Chris Matthews wondered if the Democratic Party would be better off if President Trump wins reelection rather than if Sen. Bernie Sanders takes over the White House.
Matthews, 74, brought up the possibility that centrist Democrats may prefer Trump over the socialist Sanders during the network's Saturday afternoon coverage of the Nevada caucuses. The host of Hardball with Chris Matthews was leading a conversation about how centrist candidates were splitting the vote, likely a detriment to one another but a benefit for Sanders.
"I’m wondering whether the Democratic moderates want Bernie Sanders to be president," he said. "That’s maybe too exciting a question to raise. They don’t like Trump at all. Do they want Bernie Sanders to take over the Democratic Party in perpetuity? I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party — maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like."
"I mean, that’s the big question, right?" Adrienne Elrod, a former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, responded. "And you know, the narrative that you’re starting to see play out, Chris, is that there are people that are concerned, strategists that are concerned that Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket will force us to lose the House. I don’t necessarily think that’s the case."
Matthews has frequently disparaged the Vermont senator in recent days, accusing Sanders of being "full of it" and arguing that he'd be a "miserable president" if he got elected. He has also predicted that Sanders would lose 49 states if he went up against Trump in the general election.
The network host also warned his viewers about candidates who support socialism.
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Chris Matthews Compares Bernie Sanders Winning Nevada to France Falling to Germany in 1940
Further back. Zell Miller.
Maybe it wouldn’t be too bad to be shot out of the back end of socialism like most countries do. I might teach stupid Americans a lesson.
Well of course we would you moron...What idiot would think a communist president would be better than an America First President...Bout time to quit bad-mouthing Trump, don’t ya think???
Chris Mathews gets paid by a man to say what the man wants him to say.
Bernie is a communist he will send the establishment packing the first day..along with the press that put him in power..IF he gets elected..
I have a question for a democrat...if someone dropsout can they give there delegates to someone...
He makes no sense. I always suspected this guy either drinks heavily or is into drugs.
Too funny. The Democrat Media/Talking Heads are starting to realize they pushed their viewers completely off the reservation.
Rats leaving the sinking ship.
The fear is that they give up any chance of gaining control of the Senate. If they lose this, then they have lost any chance of impeding Trump's judicial nominations.
“centrist candidates”
How are they related to the “moderate candidates” we keep reading about?
We’d be better off with Matthews than Sanders.
If Bernie gets the nomination the commie media will support him 100 percent..this is all for show..the media is almost 100 percent full blown communists
Duh
Crying from the Exempt Ones.
“...Bernie is a communist he will send the establishment packing the first day..along with the press that put him in power..IF he gets elected..”
Exile them to the Illinois or New York SSR’s.
You mean the homosexual Pete Buttcrack, whose father was a professor who specialized in studying and promoting the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci isn’t a moderate?
You mean the homosexual Pete Buttcrack, whose father was a professor who specialized in studying and promoting the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci isn’t a moderate?
As we've seen around the world in many countries, when Socialism takes root, it tends to stay rooted and will spread like ivy once it does. No, I don't think experimenting with Socialism is going to 'teach' America anything. It'll destroy it, or rewrite several hundred years of American history. If that's the loaded gun you want to play with, at least have the courtesy of waiting until I'm in an urn somewhere before you do it.
The People are clamoring for Romney-Kasich.
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