Bernie Sanders: Mortally Wounded in California, Deathblow in Florida

American Thinker.com ^ | March 16, 2020 | Raoul Lowery Contreras

[Kaslin]

Seven days after millions of Californians voted by absentee or in person, the hammer of the slow-counted millions of ballots fell on U.S. senator Bernie Sanders's "movement."

He and his followers were convinced that millions of Californians would vote him into the Democratic nomination for president. They didn't.

Sanders's followers thought they would clog the system with so many votes that Joe Biden's hopes for the nomination would be ended by a tsunami of California progressive votes. The hope was that San Francisco progressives would ruin Joe Biden's chances of recovering from his terribly underfunded and badly run third presidential campaign. Didn't happen.

Eight days after Election Day, CNN finally called the California vote, and the bad news for Bernie's passionate minority was that, yes, he won more votes than Biden did, but the count was a disaster for Sanders.

Bernie Sanders 34 percent, Joe Biden 27 percent. The Democratic Convention delegate count is still being calculated, but votes cast and counted destroy the Sanders-promulgated myth that his "movement" is pervasive in the Democratic Party.

Yes, young Democrats like Bernie Sanders and his "movement." But Young Democrats don't vote; old Democrats do, old black Democrats do also, and so do older Latino voters. Sanders's people tried to convince Californians that his followers were everywhere in California, a true-blue blue state.

This is California, where Democrats hold every statewide elective office, control the 120-member two-house state Legislature, and dominate the House of Representatives delegation of 53 seats and have owned both U.S. Senate seats since 1992.

[PGalt]

DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME in the Collectivists Cup...it’s FEEBLE on the outside...FEEBLE-MINDED on the inside. At the wire it’s too close to call. Hold all ballots.

American ‘rat tyrants BUMP!

2020 in the republic? Sorry FF...”in order to form a more perfect union”

They shoot horses don’t they? Watch out Joementia. Bern has some sharp shooters.

https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/james-hodgkinson-alexandria-gop-baseball-shooter-shooting-gunman-identified-illinois/

[Steely Tom]

I can’t wait to get Bernie’s reaction to this result.

[knighthawk]

Does he still get a cool sum of money from the DNC?

[knighthawk]

Does he still get a cool sum of money from the DNC?

[SaveFerris]

[Deathblow]

I think Jerry and Kramer went to see that.

George saw “The Muted Heart”.

[alternatives?]

How many of Bernie voters last time were “Not Hillary” voters?

[Freedumb]

Per The NY Times, something like 15% of the percent of the precincts in Los Angeles county have yet to report two full weeks after the primary.

[SaxxonWoods]

C’mon, Bernie was never going to be the nominee and he knew it too. He’s campaigning to lose just like last time.

He never went after Hillary and it’s the same with Biden. He’s just a long-term grifter who likes to push socialism.

New musical: “Bye Bye Bernie”.

[Liz]

A 40-year member of The Swamp, Bernie's a grifter who never held a job, incongruously preaching socialism, as he oils up his fund-raising machine.
.....all of his stump speeches align perfectly with his fund-raising letters. Every word he says on the stump is calculated to raise more money for the socialist.

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Swamp Report: Peter Schweizer Reveals How Bernie Sanders Enriches His Family with Campaign Funds (emphasis added)
by ROBERT KRAYCHIK , 13 Feb 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has repeatedly used his political position to steer money — both contributions to his campaign

Schweizer stated: [In] 2000, Bernie was in Washington D.C, serving in Congress.

<><>Throughout his congressional career in the House and Senate, Bernie Sanders has used campaign funds to procure media-buying services from a consulting company founded and operated by his wife and her children.

<><>Jane and her children formed a new LLC called Sanders and Driscoll. The new firm was a for-profit consulting company, and was run by Jane, daughter Carina, and son David. The family ran this new business out of the Sanders family home. Because of the way it was structured, it’s impossible to know just how much money Bernie’s wife and children made from his congressional campaign. But critics would claim that Sanders doled out more than $150,000 to his family through the new company.

<><> Jane set up a media buying company; she would get paid every time candidate Bernie Sanders bought television advertising for his Congressional campaigns.

<><>Then, during his 2016 presidential run, the Sanders campaign would funnel $82 million dollars through a mysterious media buying company run by Jane’s former colleagues. That company, known as Olde Towne Media, was located in private home in a cul de sac in Virginia.

<><>As mayor of Burlington, VT, Bernie Sanders appointed his wife to an initially unpaid position in his municipal administration. Against the city council’s objections, he later put her on the payroll at local taxpayers’ expense.

<><>Schweizer recalled Jane Sanders’ previous role as head of Burlington College, a private school with fewer than 200 students. One of the college’s board members admitted that hiring Jane Sanders was a function of her marriage to Bernie Sanders — then a member of House of Representatives from Vermont — believing it would help the school’s fundraising endeavors.

<><>Despite its financial difficulties at the time, in 2009, Burlington College contracted with an unaccredited woodworking school run by Jane Sanders’ daughter, Carina Driscoll. Over $500,000 was funneled to from Burlington College to the woodworking school.

<><>“Carina Sanders' Driscoll school also received at least one federal grant from the US Department of Agriculture,” added Schweizer, noting that Bernie Sanders had oversight over the USDA’s funding at the time as a member of the Senate Budget Committee.

<><> “I don’t believe in Charity,” said Bernie Sanders while mayor of Burlington. Schweizer concluded, “While Sanders may not be a fan of charity, he seems to have no problem awarding jobs and contracts to those closest to him.” “The biggest charity in Bernie’s life is Bernie,” said Schweizer in January.

Read the full video report’s transcript here (link at web site).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/13/swamp-report-peter-schweizer-reveals-how-bernie-sanders-enriches-his-family-with-campaign-funds/ /////

[Mr. K]

wow...!

[KC Burke]

Yep. I think this new vacation home should be in Sweden.

What gets me is based on the above percentages 49% of Californians voted for dropped out candidates.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Socially for me, using your taxes from you.

[17th Miss Regt]

Yep. Choosing the silver over the lead is wise for him. Another lakeside house or a yacht for him...

[Revolutionary]

They are still not done counting in California (95.5%). The DNC has kept delegates from being assigned to Bernie while they rigged the vote tallies. Colorado and Utah (Bernie wins) are still counting as well and have a lower percentage counted. If it was all on the up and up (never with the DNC), Biden and Bernie would be essentially tied and the media narrative would go out the window.

[fortheDeclaration]

Goodbye to the commie! And the youth vote will stay home on Nov!

[353FMG]

America not ready for communism yet.

[rllngrk33]

Bernie’s finished and Biden probably won’t make it to the convention. So who will be the RAT’s nominee?

[hal ogen]

The coronavirus???

[wally_bert]

Maybe a personal jet?