Disgruntled progressive activists and organizations have embarked on a campaign to push voters to mark themselves “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s stance on the Israel-Hamas War.
With 95% of the expected vote tabulated, 70.5% of voters backed Biden while 19.0% went uncommitted, according to a tabulation by The Associated Press.
In Minnesota, more than 45,000 marked themselves “uncommitted” — a number greater than the margin by which Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the state in 2016.
I worked on the Bernie campaign. He lost. Progressives didn’t show up during the primaries and he didn’t get the votes. It wasn’t rigged or stolen, he just didn’t get enough support from the voters that showed up.
I do remember the democratic establishment hamstringing him at every opportunity in favor of Hilary, even though he had a wave of support the same way trump did.
Yeah and I think that’s a fair critique of the DNC. I just don’t see any evidence that it swung the election. At the end of the day, Bernie could’ve won if more people voted for him. They didn’t, so he didn’t.
lol ok. I also worked on Bernie’s campaign and that’s not how I remember it. Don’t be surprised when Trump wins because Biden refuses to acknowledge the Progressive voters. It won’t be rigged or stolen, it’ll be on the DNC for not offering appealing candidate.
So where did Bernie’s votes go then? Are you saying the results were wrong? Did the DNC prevent people from voting for Bernie during the primaries? The numbers would appear to support my position.
I don’t understand how you can say that Biden hasn’t acknowledged progressives. The IRA has a bunch of great climate stuff, he’s forgiven billions of student loans, and the NLRB has helped drive unionization efforts around the country.
Do you recall? Fellow Bernie campaigner lol.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/debbie-wasserman-schultz-resigns-dnc-chair-emails-sanders
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487242426/bernie-sanders-dnc-emails-outrageous-but-not-a-shock
So you completely ignore what I wrote and posted articles about something I’m not disputing?
So are you going to ignore that the DNC itself is not Democratic? If the platform for choosing candidates is not representing its own voters and actively promoting its own self serving interests, your vote doesn’t matter. It is a sham. The DNC actively painted Sanders in a negative way and pushed both Clinton and Biden. Just like this primary where saying anything against the DNC’s narrative will get you panned. Yes, the DNC prevented people from voting Sanders because giving him fair treatment would have upset the corporate democrat mindset.
Where did the votes go? They are still available if you acknowledge the policies that make Bernie an appealing candidate instead of championing the low effort neoliberal stance Biden has to be pushed into.
I don’t really have a horse in this race (Bernie fan, never worked for a campaign), but
You haven’t really explained how the DNC prevented people from voting for Sanders in the primaries, and I’m genuinely curious.
Okey dokey.
Yeah kinda what I thought, you didn’t actually work on the Bernie camp lol
How the fuck are people so angry at hearing this when this is exactly how we got 4 years of Donald Trump as president in the first place?