Bernie fans were above anything else anti-Hillary. The courting of these children will only serve the ultimate goal of upsetting and upending those that call DC home.
Bernie Sanders supporters are open to vote Trump over Hillary. This article is designed to squash that.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The highest form of generalship is to attack the enemy’s strategy. The next highest is to attack the enemy’s alliances.
Trump is operating at a level that we haven’t seen in GOP Presidential politics in decades.
Why not? It's not like they'd be voting for a conservative or something.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend?.
Oh, not nearly as many as you would think. Trump and Statism go together like chocolate and peanut butter. The buy in for agressive government spending and intervention is yuuuuuge here these days.
If The Donald plays his cards right he could sweep them. All he has to do is make them feel good about themselves.
Yep. The enemy of my enemy often really is my friend.
And some Sanders supporters are true believers who with the right nudging could be brought along libertarian and/or Reagan Democrat lines.
Reagan was big on bringing people into the tent by the lure of the right ideas.
It’s not crazy to believe in some crossover. There are some similarities in the campaigns.
1. Both understand that the American people are fed up with the establishment on both sides.
2. Both say they want to end unfair trade agreements.
3. Both do not endorse Super Pacs.
4. Both have planks on repairing the neglected infrastructure
5. Both have planks on protecting Social Security.
6. Both belief the delegate selection process is biased or rigged to some extent.
“Do great” = siphon off votes from Hillary. Brilliant!
The best $5,000,000 Trump could spend would be funding Bernie as a 3rd party candidate.
I think it would be smart for republicans to go after and try to capture some of the #NeverHillary voters. We can all agree on #NeverHillary. It’s a good common ground place to start!
It’s a brilliant tactical move. He’s giving the Bern supporters a little meat to munch on.
The hardcore Dems will always vote for the Democrat, the hardcore Bernettes will sit home, but there are some who will vote for Trump because he is the only anti establishment candidate left.
Either way, this tactic, will siphon off votes from the Hillary pool. Whether it will be enough to turn blue states purple will remain to be seen.
Wonder how many of the Bernie supporters are going to get the Woman Card that is being issues by some Hillary supporters?
And if they stay home in their parents attics and basements that’s fine too:-)
I agree that it was a master stroke for Trump to try to attract Bernie supporters who have no use for Hillary by wringing out the crazy in Bernie’s message which is most of it and emphasizing the general change message in drawing similarities for the idiots who feel the bern.