Posted on 09/09/2017 4:12:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Senator Bernie Sanders wants to lead the Democratic Party into the 2020 presidential election, then he needs to do a better job of controlling his supporters, leading Democrats have signaled to him. Sanders has remained an independent after losing a contentious 2016 Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton, but he has played an increasingly influential role within the party’s leadership.
However, according to a Politico report Friday, if Sanders wants to retain such a lofty position and perhaps even fulfill his presidential ambitions in 2020, Democratic senators and outside groups have told him he needs to get a handle on his outspoken backers.
“The Democratic Party has treated Senator Sanders exceptionally well,” Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, told Politico. “We collectively let him run in our primaries when he declared he wasn’t a Democrat—I count that as a great favor and an opportunity almost no one else has ever received.....
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[but he has played an increasingly influential role within the party’s leadership. ]
Excellent. Move further left.
[“The Democratic Party has treated Senator Sanders exceptionally well,” Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, told Politico. “We collectively let him run in our primaries when he declared he wasn’t a Democrat—I count that as a great favor and an opportunity almost no one else has ever received.....]
LOL Helps to have a rigged primary for your frontrunner too.
Bernie Sanders · Born
Sep 08, 1941
It’s doubtful they’ll be running very fast with their walkers.
Let’s have a rematch with all of them. It would be fun to see the NeverTrumptards run around sounding like Democrats as they ride the GOP Elephant.
Or you'll rig the primaries against him again? Good! Stay clueless, Dems.
Does he get another house if he does control them?
No, Democrats continue to be disingenuous to Bernie. They continue to try and snooker him and his followers. They now realize they have permanently fractured the party with their corrupt underhanded sabotage of Bernie. Now they want everyone to just move on and forget their back stabbing. Ain’t going to happen.
Just the headline is hilarious. What about if jojo “handyman” biden wants to run. Or jilly beerstein, or pricess gray beaver. These fools have less of a clue than the gopE.
Just as an aside, I don't think Bernie will run again.
Yea, 80 years old. He’ll be fainting like Hillary all over the place.
So he will be 79 on election day 2020.
That’s getting up there in years, even if for sake of argument we say he is in good health for his age.
Radical revolutionary communists never behave.
“We collectively let him run in our primaries when he declared he wasn’t a Democrat—I count that as a great favor and an opportunity almost no one else has ever received.....”
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This is true.
They needed a faux opponent for Hillary.
They wouldn’t have let him run if they hadn’t already rigged it.
I want Hillary to run again. It was fun last time.
Come on, lefties! History demands Hillary as our first somewhat female POTUS! (somewhat because there are some questions on her being an actual human).
What makes anyone believe he wanted to win the 2016 election? He played his role and was rewarded for it.
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