“If Biden is nominated, Bernie bots stay home.”
I wouldn’t count on it.
My primary is next Tuesday. I’ll vote for Sanders now that he is #2. Operation Chaos, baby!
The enthusiasm won’t be there and many will stay home but most will still vote for the down tickets. Yet a few per- centage points not voting here and there will make a difference in some races.
That there will be no strong women candidates for president will dampen enthusiasm amongst women voters. They could try to pair Biden(should he win) with Warren but that will frost the Bernie-ites. If they pair Biden with Bernie, it may depress the enthusiasm of the woman Dem voters.
I don’t see Bloomberg as a factor, only a spoiler...perhaps he wants a job as Secretary of the Treasury.
I would. Some are “Party before Country” types, for sure, but I would say the vast majority of Bernie Bros will sit it out.
Most of these idiots wear their politics on their sleeves and virtue signal online. Hard core progressives are worried about looking like hypocrites by voting establishment after they spent the last year assailing it. So it makes sense to me that they’d follow thru and do a write-in or go 3rd party or sit it out.
Meanwhile, it’s going to be very difficult to defend Biden in the coming months.... I’m sure Team Trump is licking its chops right now!
“If Biden is nominated, Bernie bots stay home.”
I wouldn’t count on it.
I think that many of the Bernie Bot basement dwellers will stay home on election day. Bernie appeals to the young “free stuff” crowd. This group tends to skip voting anyway. Bernie excited them over the prospect of “student loan forgiveness”, which Biden hasn’t offered them (yet).
I'm not confident that Bernie won't sell out again.