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Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders
New York Times ^ | 02/27/2020 | Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 02/27/2020 6:28:18 AM PST by Phlap

Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2020; dnc; sanders; superdelegates; whoops
This story almost makes one fell sorry for the dumbocrats. But only almost. Lol!
1 posted on 02/27/2020 6:28:18 AM PST by Phlap
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To: Phlap

Democracy, to the Democrat Party, means that what the voters want doesn’t matter and that the Party’s hand-picked candidates will rule.


2 posted on 02/27/2020 6:31:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Phlap

They sold it for $2bln. It is now the Bloomocratic party or the Autocratic party.

If Bloomy can’t be king, he wants to be kingmaker. He doesn’t realize he bought a bill of goods.


3 posted on 02/27/2020 6:31:50 AM PST by angmo (America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
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To: Phlap

They know If he gets nominated they’ll crushed in a landslide. They’ll lose anyway so they’re trying to limit the damage.


4 posted on 02/27/2020 6:36:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Phlap

The convention will be dyn-o-mite, literally.


5 posted on 02/27/2020 6:36:31 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: lonevoice

This is all so fun!


6 posted on 02/27/2020 6:43:47 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Phlap
It YUST'A be Republicans and Democrats, NOW it's US and THEM ....

Americans and our enemies.

7 posted on 02/27/2020 6:45:36 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Phlap

There is a simple solution. The day after Super Tuesday, Bernie can declare “I am longer call myself a Socialist”. The media will simply drop the label, and all problems will be solved.


8 posted on 02/27/2020 6:47:13 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Phlap

They’ll give us the best leaders money can buy.


9 posted on 02/27/2020 6:49:10 AM PST by JusPasenThru (eBay listing: one Democrat presidential nomination. Reserve price $1 billion.)
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To: 1Old Pro

I can’t wait until the Berniebots start rioting.

If the DNC manages to maneuver Sanders out of the nomination, the bots will express their rage by rioting in the streets.

If Sanders win enough delegates for a clean first-ballot win, the bots will express their joy by rioting in the streets.

Violence and Leftism just go together like bratwurst and mustard ... sorry, Wisconsinites, but this is bad karma coming your way for not giving Scott Walker another term.

Actually, I understand Wisconsin is great once you get outside Milwaukee and Madison. Any state with that many cows is my kind of state.


10 posted on 02/27/2020 6:49:53 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: Phlap

I hope the panicked Rats realize that even if they pay Crazy Bernie generously to go away, his deranged supporters will not go away quietly. I predict the Bernie Bots will resort to widespread violence if Bernie loses the nomination.


11 posted on 02/27/2020 6:54:55 AM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: Phlap

Bernie hasn’t gotten 50% of the vote anywhere, and Democrats give out delegates proportionately in all fifty states. There aren’t any winner-take-alls like on the GOP side, which allowed Trump to rack up tons of delegates in like Florida and Arizona despite receiving under 50% of the vote.

Makes me wonder who the consensus not-Bernie candidate might end up being at the convention if this trend continues.


12 posted on 02/27/2020 6:57:32 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Phlap

I’m not buying this “NeverBernie” narrative. His proposed Marxist agenda is the democrat parties wet dream.


13 posted on 02/27/2020 7:06:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Phlap

Conclusions:

- Yeah, they are gonna SCROOO Bernie again.
- You do not want to be within 200 miles of Milwaukee this Summer.
- Bernie is going to run third-party and split the anti-Trump vote.

Likely all have assumed they aren’t going to beat Trump so this has become a battle to control the future of the Democrat Party.


14 posted on 02/27/2020 7:13:46 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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...including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination ...

Democrat 'bigs' have almost zero respect for their voters... I think we can expect massive voter fraud in November...

15 posted on 02/27/2020 7:25:29 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah but Bernie doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut about and keep that socialism on the low down until elected, like Obama


16 posted on 02/27/2020 7:26:50 AM PST by pangaea6
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To: Phlap

The party leaders should ask themselves “who are these people who are rabid for Bernie, and how did they get there?”

answer though, is simple. Decades of indoctrination from kindergarten on, media, and Hollywood, all while the squishy right allowed it to happen.


17 posted on 02/27/2020 7:31:41 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.
They know his nomination would destroy the party for posterity -- as if that's a bad outcome.

18 posted on 02/27/2020 9:40:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Phlap

Democrats don’t trust the people in their own party... The whole ‘election’ thing is a joke to them... Just a ruse to fool the rubes in their own party. How pathetic...


19 posted on 02/27/2020 9:06:48 PM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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