Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign megathread

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Bernie has pick ACLU director Faiz Shakir to be his manager. Fantastic hire

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I’m sorry GoTfan but no the threads attacking Kamala over truancy jailing when dozens of other states and their AGs do the same, calling her “the anointed one”, or attacking her over Trump giving her 8 grand back in 2013 when he did that all the time and also in the world of political donations that isn’t a lot are not legitimate at all and are just people who don’t like her (mainly Berniebros sadly) finding an excuse to rip on her

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Say what you will but between the new emphasis on his civil rights background, getting rid of some of his worst advisors from the 2016 campaign, and combining his hair . It’s safe to say Bernie is gonna run are much more serious campaign from last time

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With his age in constant spotlight, stuff like this will get more coverage than it should.

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1106602122085322752

Which is why picking 71 year old Warren as his go would be stupid

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wtf we fighting bout over a shower door

Because it’s a thread about Bernie. Internet law dictates that any thread about Bernie has to get very very stupid

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I have to admit the recent polling showing Bernie’s personal approval rating dropping in concerning

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but whatever, I'm someone who is considered a horrible racist, sexist bigot by everyone on this board. I think Sanders is a much better candidate than Harris or Gillibrand or Booker. If you want to vote for a candidate I like and convince yourself he's actually the most radical, why should I try to convince you otherwise?

Geeh whatever gave them that idea?

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Can we stop with lumping Bernie’s whole base with these trolls on social media? For all these endless Bernie or bust, burn down the DNC if we don’t get our way posters like 90% of his base voted for Hillary. There is a clear disconnect between his actual base and these online trolls

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I'm sorry, I "agree" with Bernie Sanders on almost everything, but I cannot stand him. The problem is that his supporters are absolutely hideous. At this point I'll even take Joe Biden over him.

I have to admit his die hard suppoters are some of the ugliest people I've ever come across, and I am torn between him and Biden, but his recent comments have me leaning toward Bernie.

If Bernie is the only way we can get a Democrat who is not slobbering over social justice in the White House, then he has my vote.

So you are looking to support a Democrat who will jettison the concerns of some of the party's most important members of their coalition? I really don't get how social justice became such a dirty word. Oh wait, I do. The right wing setting the narrative, as usual.

Just because Bernie is not actively catering to the social justice left (in fact, he's striking me as wanting to run a more pragmatic campaign this time) doesn't mean he won't look to solve their concerns in office. Like last time, there's not a dichotomy here: he can tackle both economic and social inequality with his vision for the country.

Bernie is catering to the social justice left though. He talks constantly about Black people, the civil rights movement, how there's so many women of color working for his campaign, how there's an illegal immigrant working for his campaign. He talks about social justice all the time but but he shouldn't, he gets no credit.

He thinks talking like this is going to help him with Black people. It won't. This type of rhetoric doesn't actually appeal to Black people. It appeals to middle class white women but that demographic actively hates him and is not going to change. Black people don't hate him and their support could change, they just largely don't know who he is. Right now, most Black people support Biden, who is one the least Social Justice-y candidates but he has high name recognition.

He talks about black people?! The horror!!

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Bernie looked great at the Townhall

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It seems like the Sander's camp is going for the "burn everything down" approach again. I have yet to see any other campaign's surrogates go as hard against other candidates as Bernie's have so far. It's leaving a bad taste in my mouth, especially at this early stage of the race.

How is Sanders going hard against the other candidates? He hasnt made any attacks against the rest of the field yet.

 It's part of Sanders act, pretend to be above the fray while your nasty surrogates and campaign officials wreak havoc. It's about time people start calling him out and holding him personally responsible for the nasty vitriol of many of his supporters. We attempt to do the same with Trump, why the double standard with Bernie?

Are you really asking why Donald “punch that guy in the face and I’ll pay your fine” Trump gets called out but Bernie Sanders hasn’t?

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*completely ignores the points made about the toxic campaign Bernie is running*

You people are crazy. I'm done with this thread.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I’ll be fair to Beto Bro it is hypocritical to one the one hand to praise this idea of being tough and nasty but then be on the cross about how Bernie was “robbed” (and I use those words in quotations because he wasn’t) in 2016

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We get it. A lot of Atlas just hates Bernie. You are not representative of primary voters.

Oh spare me the persecution complex when everyone is saying how great Kamala was while most Atlas poster freaked out at all of her answers

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https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1160936759510917122

Oh stop Bernie didn’t cost Hillary the election. If anything he could of saved it if her advisors and campaign heads stopped being so arrogant and payed attention to his success in Michigan