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Can Bernie Sanders really win over Trump voters?
Washington Post ^ | Apr. 14, 2019 | Sean Sullivan

Posted on 04/14/2019 4:08:49 PM PDT by Innovative

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) walked onstage here Friday under a gray sky with occasional specks of snow and launched into a full-on attack against President Trump, labeling him a “pathological liar” in a state that was key to Trump’s victory in 2016.

He repeated the epithet Saturday at a union hall in Michigan, another Trump state, and again on Sunday at a park in Pennsylvania, where Trump also won. “The biggest lie was that he was going to stand up for working families and take on the establishment,” Sanders said.

The blistering attacks on the president reflect Sanders’s developing, and arguably risky, strategy of reaching out to Trump’s voters — people the president has said would support him even if he shot someone. It’s a sharp contrast with other Democratic candidates who are focused on mobilizing Trump opponents. Not incidentally, it is also a way to signal Democrats that Sanders is their best hope for knocking off Trump.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; communistsanders; democrats; election; fakenews; highhopes; notnews; sanders; washingtoncompost
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To: Innovative

He might be able to do it in a few of the close swing states like PA, MI, WI and OH. It’s the union votes he will be going after. But he may lose some of the nonunion votes in the process.


21 posted on 04/14/2019 4:18:30 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Innovative
“The biggest lie was that he was going to stand up for working families and take on the establishment,” Sanders said.

Lowest unemployement for blacks and Latinos, daily battle with the Deep State (AKA "The Establishment").

Promise kept, Bernie.

22 posted on 04/14/2019 4:19:00 PM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: Innovative

Answer: No.

Even the afterberners that switched over to Trump after Hillary stole the nomination from him have really been disillusioned by Sanders.


23 posted on 04/14/2019 4:19:27 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: workerbee

Believe me, the media (and their owners) do NOT like Sanders. I worry about his life. He’s not part of their “owned” cabal.


24 posted on 04/14/2019 4:19:41 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Innovative

Nope...


25 posted on 04/14/2019 4:20:16 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Vendome

Right after HELL freezes over..


26 posted on 04/14/2019 4:21:37 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Innovative

Bernie’s biggest problem is that he looks old enough to be Trump’s father.


27 posted on 04/14/2019 4:22:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Yaelle

Sanders an enemy of the globalist oligarchy, really? He’s its biggest proponent.


28 posted on 04/14/2019 4:22:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Innovative

Trump voter here and no I would never vote for bernie or any other socialist democrat or communist.


29 posted on 04/14/2019 4:22:12 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Innovative

Hate to break it to these schmucks, but Bernie’s going nowhere.


30 posted on 04/14/2019 4:23:19 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: Innovative

HELL NO!!!


31 posted on 04/14/2019 4:23:23 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: dp0622

“...he was going to stand up for working families and take on the establishment,”
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Bernie, ‘working families’ are all of us, not just union members.

POTUS’ policies and actions increased jobs, increased wages, decreased taxes. He’s trying to get rid of the illegals who undercut workers at the lower end of the spectrum. He wants our towns to be safer. I call that standing up for working families.

POTUS is taking on the establishment. All of it. Have you been living under a rock? He fights the Deep State and the international globalists daily. He stands up to the press, the corrupt intelligence community and all the fake pearl clutching your side can throw at him. He demands universities actually allow free speech. Oh: he does this for both sides of the aisle. He takes on the pharmaceutical industry, the health care insurers, the judiciary.

He is the most combative POTUS since Truman (who would be a Republican, today).

Was there another ‘establishment’ you had in mind?


32 posted on 04/14/2019 4:23:43 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: jcon40

The only reason Bernie had a following was because anti GOP Democrats didn’t want Hillary.Seems like there are plenty of choices this time other than Bernie.


33 posted on 04/14/2019 4:24:41 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Innovative

But more importantly, does Bernie really smell like mothballs?


34 posted on 04/14/2019 4:25:13 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Innovative

He’s a lying puke. He can’t offer anything to the working person except socialist rhetoric. He has no business lying about Trump.


35 posted on 04/14/2019 4:25:17 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Innovative

First he has to beat Buttigieg ,LOL


36 posted on 04/14/2019 4:26:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: reformedliberal

great post


37 posted on 04/14/2019 4:28:46 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Innovative

Can Bernie Sanders really win over Trump voters?

No more than he can hi jump to the moon!


38 posted on 04/14/2019 4:29:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone trusting the media has failed a competency check or/and is a paid troll for the lefties.)
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To: Innovative

If someone who supported Trump decided to support Bernie Sanders, that person isn’t worth a cup of warm spit intellectually.

I am sure there are a few here and there, but to think those people exist in any number, even a measurable insignificant number, is delusional.


39 posted on 04/14/2019 4:29:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: Innovative

No.


40 posted on 04/14/2019 4:30:02 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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