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I know of several popular Right-Wing YouTubers (500k plus channels) who have urged their fans to do just that (I've watched the videos). Most of these YouTubers "favor" Sanders for obvious reasons or Warren who they also see as "weak" because of the Native American issue.
Thinking about the above situation (and things with the efforts so far to stop Trump in general) I can't help but post this -
Last edited by Celgress; 02-08-2020 at 09:37 PM.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Gosh. It's almost like there might be a reason open primaries with same day party switching might not be such a great thing.
While I doubt anyone is going to beat Trump in 2020, Sanders probably has the best shot if he actually gets the nomination.
The Republicans are doing the same thing the Democrats did in 2016. Elevating a candidate that they think will hurt the party and be the easiest to defeat.
They Always Wanted Trump
Inside Team Clinton’s year-long struggle to find a strategy against the opponent they were most eager to face.
Clinton’s team drew up a plan to pump Trump up. Shortly after her kickoff, top aides organized a strategy call, whose agenda included a memo to the Democratic National Committee: “This memo is intended to outline the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field,” it read.
“The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” read the memo.
“Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to:
• Ted Cruz
• Donald Trump
• Ben Carson
We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously."
While the campaign also kept a close eye on Rubio, monitoring his announcement speech and tightly designing the tweeted responses to his moves, Clinton’s team in Brooklyn was delightedly puzzled by Trump’s shift into the pole position that July after attacking John McCain by declaring, “I like people who weren’t captured.”
Eleven days after those comments about McCain, Clinton aides sought to push the plan even further: An agenda item for top aides’ message planning meeting read, “How do we prevent Bush from bettering himself/how do we maximize Trump and others?"
This requires a lot of organization to have an impact. You need a lot of Republicans to switch their registration, vote for Sanders and then fill out the registration again.
To give an example of one relatively small state, just over 380,000 Democrats voted in the 2016 Alabama presidential primary.
In order to affect the outcome of a race of that magnitude where one side is leading by five percent, you'd need about 20,000 Republicans on board. In that one state.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
How did you get that from my post?
I said I doubt anyone is going to beat Trump in 2020. That includes Sanders.
I think Sanders has a better shot at winning than the other candidates, but I don't think he'd actually win.
And as for the popular vote. I expect Trump to lose it this election too.
New York and California almost guarantee that the Democrat's candidate will win the popular vote this time around too.
Trump won Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by such small margins that anything can happen if the Democrats get the right message out with the right messenger. Added all together it was only about 100,000 votes
Last edited by PaulBullion; 02-09-2020 at 01:24 AM.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
In the Iowa caucus, Bernie had the most support from women, youth and non-white voters. His non-white support tripled Pete Buttigieg.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...cus-polls.html
Bernie2020
Not Me. Us
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
If Sanders does not win New Hampshire by at least 10 points, his campaign is over. He just won't admit it till some time after 2024.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!