Posted on 02/02/2020 4:42:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The closer the Democratic presidential race gets to the first votes of 2020 being cast here in the Iowa caucuses, the more the ghosts of the 2016 primary haunt the party.
Supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders, who watched last time as the Democratic National Committee plotted to derail his insurgent bid, see many of the same dark forces at work again.
The DNC already has changed the debate rules, making it easier for billionaire Michael Bloomberg to be on the stage for the Nevada showdown — irking Sanders backers who also bristled at reports that DNC members are talking about other rules change to hinder Mr. Sanders should he be in the lead at this summer’s convention.
Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s curious timing in sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which has kept Mr. Sanders off the campaign trail for most of the last two weeks, strikes the Vermont independent senator’s supporters as suspect.
“It does raise question marks, and I don’t believe you have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe it,” said Dustin Menke, who came to hear Mr. Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a recent campaign rally in Perry.
“There are powers that are trying to sabotage his win again for the presidency, and it is because he has had the same message for the last 40 or 50 years,” the 42-year-old said. “That is why the establishment is afraid of him, because he is not going to back down.”
Mr. Sanders surged in polling in January, seemingly grabbing leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states on the primary calendar, away from former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
To the Sanders camp, Mr. Biden is this year’s version of Hillary Clinton...
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Go third party Bernie.
“Go third party Bernie”.
That’s a good idea.
If he does go 3rd party,the Dems will finish 3rd
Why isn’t Sanders required to change his affiliation to Democrat in order to run in the Democratic primaries?
Oh oh. It looks like the Berniebots have figured it out about what’s in store for their candidate AGAIN. The RATS are in full implosion mode. Bernie will win handily tomorrow and then in New Hampshire, and then the panic will really set in among the RATS. Oh man. More popcorn for all of us!
Good question. I’ve never heard anyone in the media pursue this, either in 2016 or in this election cycle.
You would think that someone needs to be a registered member of a political party, to run for office as a nominee of that party.
The Democrats have allowed him to run. I wonder why. It would have been so easy for them to say, that only registered Democrats are allowed to run in their party. But for unknown reasons, they apparently have no such rules.
Because he’s not a Democrat?
And wait til those D super- delegates ( so- called) block him again
Bernie does not care this is the second election the DNC has screwed
him and his supporters. Maybe someone has promised him another
house.
When the Bernie ‘Bots start shooting again, I hope this time it’s a circular firing squad with their regressive ‘RAT comrades.
Walk away Bernie. Walk away.
Chants under breath: Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism, Schism
Bernie supporters are, as a rule, pretty dumb and gullible, but they managed to cypher this one out.
Now, if we can just convince them that Hellary and her supporters are counter-revolutionary reactionists and need to be shot or sent to the gulag.
"Super Dels?"
Just another term for voter suppression.
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I believe the DNC is conspiring to push Bernie out, just like the last time. The are a bunch of conniving bastards, but alas, I do not have a dog in this fight, so I will sit back and enjoy watch them eat each other.
If the DNC Communists will do this to one of their own, you can imagine what they would do to us patriots.
Saw that Trump called Sanders a communist. Well he was a Castro sympathizer and he is a Maduro sympathizer. So much for Florida.
That’s a good possibility.
The ‘RATS believe all the Communist flapdoodle Bernie is spouting, they just don’t want you to know it.
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