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Posted on 02/24/2020 3:22:42 PM PST by karpov
MIAMI — Bernie Sanders says he’s the Democrat best-equipped to defeat Donald Trump in November.
But Florida Democrats insist he‘s the worst-equipped after Sanders’s refusal Sunday night to thoroughly condemn the Cuban Revolution. His comments on 60 Minutes sent shockwaves through the nation’s biggest battleground state, where Democratic members of Congress, state legislators and party leaders warned that his nomination — and Sanders’s self-described “Democratic socialism” — will cost them the biggest battleground state of them all.
“Donald Trump wins Florida if Bernie is our nominee,” said state Rep. Javier Fernandez, a Democratic candidate in a majority-Hispanic state Senate district.
“If Bernie Sanders is atop the ticket, it’s going to make it tougher for all of us to win in Florida,” said Fernandez, who has endorsed Sanders’s rival, Joe Biden. “No one really sees Sanders winning Florida and I don’t think his campaign does either.”
As a state with an influential cross-section of Latinos whose families fled leftist Latin American regimes and violence, Sanders embrace of far-left leaders and his past refusals to wholeheartedly condemn Latin American strongmen and the Soviet Union have long been seen as fatal flaws.
Sanders on Sunday did nothing to allay those concerns in a 60 Minutes interview where he was asked about his 1985 comments stating that the Cuban people didn’t “rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro” because “he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.”
There was no mention of the firing squads, political purges and mass arrests that accompanied the 1959 revolution.
"We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know?" Sanders said Sunday when asked about the remarks. "When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did?
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Reading comments on DUmp a while ago, they were just blowing their minds about this. Threads titled “Here’s how we lost Florida” etc.
Very enjoyable ;-)
Again, I just don’t see a problem here.
Old Bernie is just “coming out of the closet” so to speak and publicly announcing the very same ideas, concepts and agenda that the rest of RAT communist party is trying to do deceptively. Old Bernie just comes out with it and lays it on the table for all America to see. Bernie is the most honest one in the clown-car.
He’s the face and voice of the RAT party. He and his Bern BOTs are all products of leftist agenda so, again, I don’t see what their all up and worried about. Heck, they’ll still pick up CA, NY, MA and maybe a couple of others.../s
Go Bernie!!!! Let em feel the “Bern”.
How many Democrat presidential candidates have denounced Bernie’s pro-Castro stance?
Comrade Bernie hates anti-Castro Cubans... They just don’t appreciate Fidel.
Obama shed a tear at the memorial for Che and put his hand over his heart.
Compare and contrast to his apathetic regard for the US flag, pledge, anthem etc
Don’t forget Che.
Yep. Like he won it last time. The MSM like to claim Florida is a battleground state but the truth is it leans way more conservative and Republican than it does Democrat....still....despite the influx of Leftist Yankees into South Florida.
EXACTLY SO. ====> Wave “ADIOS” to Florida, DIMocRAT far left KOOKS.
Yours, TMN78247
The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
“I can easily see crazy Bernie picking that idiot Gillum as his VP.”
very astute conjecture.
it won’t work though
Cue Seinfeld still “that’s a shame”.
Actually, and fittingly, it was probably Cuban sympathetic voters who kicked GD Clinton and his dipshit VP Gore in the nuts when it came to GWB’s overall presidential victory. Hanging chads and all that, remember? Democrats really helped tip the balance, and the picture of Johnny Jackboot pointing his assault rifle in Elian Gonzales’ face swung it in the final analysis, IMO.
Sanders may turn out to be the anecdote to Trump derangement syndrome this country needs.
Yup—of course FL was so close that year that _everything_ gets credit for deciding the race. ;-)
To me the Elian picture is symbolic of the Democratic Party—who they are, what they want, why they must be defeated.
Democrats asked for this and now they’re going to get it good and hard. And without Vaseline.
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very well researched article with damning evidence that a bernie nomination all but guarantees a LANDSLIDE in favor of Trump in Florida in 2020 ...
Florida? If Bernie wins the nomination, Trump may win in California and New York State to boot.
The Democrats are obviously delusional.
“he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.”
...and Mussolini made the trains run on time.
...and Hitler built the autobahns.
Great guys, one and all.
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