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Gothmog

(145,242 posts)
Mon May 4, 2020, 10:46 AM May 2020

Indivisible, the progressive group never keen on Biden, endorses the former VP

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Indivisible, the influential progressive "resistance" group founded in the wake of President Donald Trump's election, plans to endorse Joe Biden on Monday, its founders told NBC News.

The former vice president was never the group's favored candidate to take on Trump, with a February survey of its members showing that just 6 percent picked Biden among the then-crowded Democratic presidential primary field, well behind Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

But the group's grassroots members and local chapter leaders voted overwhelmingly to support Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee, with Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin calling him "Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/indivisible-progressive-group-never-keen-biden-endorses-former-vp-n1198286

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Indivisible, the progressive group never keen on Biden, endorses the former VP (Original Post) Gothmog May 2020 OP
You can't always get the candidate you want Cirque du So-What May 2020 #1
This is good. paranoid floyd May 2020 #3
Well, they tried hard, but now I am glad they will get on board. We need all the help we can get. riversedge May 2020 #7
Sometimes you get the stones IronLionZion May 2020 #10
Seeing the Forest, Baby Harry Walpurgisnacht May 2020 #2
Good as we must unseat Trump as well as many of the corrupt Republicans as cstanleytech May 2020 #4
As a member, I got the poll as well and went for Biden. . . DinahMoeHum May 2020 #5
I am a member also and I also voted in that poll Gothmog May 2020 #6
........Ezra Levin calling him "Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump.".....Trumpy's ego will riversedge May 2020 #8
Yay! LeftInTX May 2020 #9
This is a great endorsement Gothmog May 2020 #11
If they had endorsed anyone else, murielm99 May 2020 #12
We're proud to announce that we're endorsing @JoeBiden for President. Gothmog May 2020 #13
"We have big progressive plans for 2021.." LiberalLovinLug May 2020 #14

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
4. Good as we must unseat Trump as well as many of the corrupt Republicans as
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:20 AM
May 2020

we can if we want to save this country.

DinahMoeHum

(21,788 posts)
5. As a member, I got the poll as well and went for Biden. . .
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:40 AM
May 2020

. . .even though he was not my first choice at the start of the year.

Trust me, the Indivisible chapters in my area are gearing up once again and busting ours to kick the GOP's and Trump's come November.





#newrostrong

riversedge

(70,218 posts)
8. ........Ezra Levin calling him "Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump.".....Trumpy's ego will
Mon May 4, 2020, 11:52 AM
May 2020

have a big hurt since he fancies himself to be the Abe of 2020



...........But the group's grassroots members and local chapter leaders voted overwhelmingly to support Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee, with Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin calling him "Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump."

murielm99

(30,741 posts)
12. If they had endorsed anyone else,
Mon May 4, 2020, 01:04 PM
May 2020

I would have quit the group.

I quit MoveOn when they got so gaga over Bernie. And I was one of the first to join, back when they wanted to censure Bill Clinton and move on.

Support the nominee. Period. No exceptions.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
14. "We have big progressive plans for 2021.."
Mon May 4, 2020, 02:19 PM
May 2020

I know, because I am in that boat, how bitterly disappointed progressives are at Sanders or Warren not winning, and the platform they would have fought for, but we simply cannot allow another 4 years of a criminal Fascist administration to run the country. And must swallow our disappointment and move on.

Move on to winning the election. THEN we can be hated again by the center/right for pushing the party to move on issues such as Wall Street reform, M4A, minimum wage increases, free college tuition, etc.. I believe we are better positioned than when Obama came in. I don't think Joe will be able to dismiss that segment so easily this time. The public support for some kind of universal medicare system has never been higher for instance, the term "socialist" has been defanged to a large degree. The battles in DU over left vs right in the big tent will be monumentus again. But for now, we have to join hands and sing kumaya all the way to the polling station.

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