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Bernie Hits Jackpot in Nevada
The Nevada Caucus precinct results are coming in, and Sen. Bernie Sanders is projected to win big.
“In Nevada, and in New Hampshire and in Iowa — what we showed is that our volunteers are prepared to knock on hundreds and hundreds of thousands of doors,” Sanders said at his victory speech in San Antonio. “That no campaign has a grassroots movement like we do, which is another reason why we’re going to win this election.”
Here’s where the official count stands (updated on Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, 50% of precincts in):
| Candidate | % |
|---|---|
| Sanders | 46.6% |
| Biden | 19.2% |
| Buttigieg | 15.4% |
| Warren | 10.3% |
| Klobuchar | 4.5% |
| Steyer | 3.8% |
| Gabbard | 0.1% |
Mayor Pete Buttigieg blasted Sanders in a post-caucus speech.
“I believe we can defeat Trump and deliver for the American people by empowering the American people to make their own health care choices with Medicare for all who want it,” he said. “Sen. Sanders believes in taking away that choice, removing people from having the option of a private plan and replacing it with a public plan whether you want it or not.”
Meanwhile, Democratic establishment types are not taking it well.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likens Sanders victory in Nevada to Nazi Germany overrunning France in 1940: “It’s too late to stop him … it’s over” pic.twitter.com/6GJetLoDkq
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 22, 2020
This is all looking very familiar. The RNC establishment lost control of its nomination process in 2016, and it appears the DNC establishment is doing the same in 2020. Regardless of the outcome in November, can the parties somehow restructure? Do they have the will? The desire?
It should be an interesting four years. As for me, I look forward to the “Draft Hillary” movement preceding the Democratic convention.
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I don’t think Sanders will get enough delegates to clinch the nomination on the first round. At that point delegates get released, and
the Super delegates in particular come into play. Remember, they were put in to ensure that another McGovern didn’t get nominated.
If Bernie gets screwed again his followers will go nuts. Milwaukee will probably be a repeat of the 68 Chicago convention.
And if they want to avoid the Reeducation Gulag….
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 – I didn’t believe he’d govern as a conservative. I will definitely vote for him in 2020! In fact I’m trying to get to one of his rallies. (I live in Portland, Oregon so the chances my vote will swing the state are minimal).
Jobs numbers are good, and the stock market has hit record highs — which is great, if you’re invested in it. Lots of Millennials are not, apparently they were scarred for life by the financial crisis and in any case most are in debt with little savings to invest.
Meanwhile the costs of housing, education, and health care are absurdly high and continuing to rise. I think a large part of Comrade Bernie’s appeal is his promise to “solve” these issues by throwing piles of money at them and/or making them free.
And a couple of blue states that require their delegates to follow the popular vote will have to vote for Trump?
May it be so.
Not yet. That only takes effect once at least 270 EVs worth of states vote that in. Of course, there is no provision for it going out of effect if redistricting reduces the EV of the states agreeing to it below 270.
Thanks for clarifying.
I call them Pro(re)gressives. Have been for years.
I always suspected Wash was a light weight. This is downright stupid. One has to wonder about his IQ.
We should still call them out for it.
I can summarize Trumps entire Campaign here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2Ik1Rckss
I had certainly heard about those “Morning in America” ads, but had never before seen one. Thanks for the link!
This sounds plausible, but I think you underestimate the number of Democrats for whom beating Trump is their #1 issue. They don’t care, or at least don’t say they care, who the nominee is as long as he’s not Trump.
Maybe a lot of those people will chicken* out when presented with Sanders,* or maybe they’ll be dwarfed by the rest, but it’s still something to consider.
*No pun intended.
Actually, I don’t. But so what? You think they did not vote last time? More than that, do you really believe there are enough of them to overcome the advantages of everyone who voted for Trump in 2016 voting for him again and many who did not vote for him in 2016 planning to vote for him in 2020?
There are not enough broken-glass beat Trump Democrats to cause a shift in states away from Trump in 2020. They are not even a majority of the members of the Democrat Party. And they sure are not the independents who shied away from Trump in 2016 and are shifting towards him in 2020 because the crazy is so strong among the Democrats.
Yes, these people are loud, but the contest is a numbers game, and there are not enough of them.
Some of those people who go on and on about how the most important thing is to defeat Trump need to be challenged: “If you don’t have any reason to oppose Trump and you don’t like any of your candidates, why not vote for Trump? Maybe contribute to his campaign.” That’s what I was thinking the other day when I saw Bloomberg go on and on about how important it was to defeat Trump, but didn’t provide any reason for his opposition to Trump.
The fact that Democrats finally got Nixon in 1974 obscures the fact that Democrats had been building up their mad against Nixon since 1948, and were white-hot by this time in ’72 over the possibility of defeating him for re-election. Along with Vietnam and progressive social issues in general, that’s what fueled the huge McGovern turnout in the primaries — Nixon Derangement Syndrome.