'We have to get rid of Trump': Pro-Bernie group launches effort to boost Biden
Source: Politico
A left-wing group that opposed Joe Biden in the primaries is launching a six-figure digital campaign aimed at persuading progressive voters in battleground states, especially Bernie Sanders supporters, to cast a ballot for the former vice president.
But dont expect it to air rose-colored ads about Biden: RootsAction.org, POLITICO has learned, has recruited some of the biggest critics of Biden within the Democratic Party to make an unvarnished case for why theyre voting for him despite their disagreements.
Our organization fought fiercely in the primaries for Bernie and against Biden, said RootsAction.org co-founders Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon in a statement. But the general election is far less about Biden than it is about Trump the most dangerous president in modern U.S. history, who opposes virtually every policy and principle that progressives are fighting for.
The group said leftist professor Noam Chomsky, former Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour, ex-Sanders adviser Winnie Wong, longtime Sanders ally RoseAnn DeMoro, Medicare for All advocate Ady Barkan, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin and ex-Sanders campaign co-chair Rep. Ro Khanna are among those who have signed onto its #VoteTrumpOut initiative.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/bernie-sanders-group-boosts-joe-biden-391575
bucolic_frolic
(43,229 posts)and put him in the Trump Dumpster!
It looks thus far like America is reaching a consensus. That's different than a poll, a vote, a majority, a conclusion. It's a reasoned outcome based on morality, reasoning, logic, and wisdom.
You can't fool people in the long run. They wise up.
betsuni
(25,560 posts)"It doesn't matter whether you like Biden or not" puke:
The last election was ALL about the candidate, making it all about her and not policies while saying it was all about policies. IDIOTS..
George II
(67,782 posts)...of 155,000 dead Americans on their hands.
betsuni
(25,560 posts)We were assured that in the 2016 general election the Democratic Party stood for nothing except "I'm not Tump."
IDIOTS.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)mcar
(42,340 posts)The purists who voted for Stein, Trump, or wrote in Bernie's name bear a share of this disaster.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)for covid deaths. This is stupidyt.
mcar
(42,340 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)Bernie supporters being resonsible for covid deaths is just stupid. How many of those Stein voters may not have voted at all of she wasn't running. Blanket statements of blaming and shaming people saying they are the cause of 155,000 deaths is ignorant.
WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)and until Clinton decided to run for the presidency, she was one of the most admired women in the world/US and they helped put trump into office.
I'll never forget what they did. Of course, they are the same people who gave us *co in 2000. I appreciate their current alliance but they are who/what they are and will never truly be trustable.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)That credit lays at the feet of donald trump and his inept administration. Not at whoever did or did not vote for him.
obamanut2012
(26,087 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,533 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...announcement they couldn't find a single good thing to say about Biden.
Even The Lincoln Project, a group of republicans, have been running POSITIVE ads about Biden.
But remember, this is Politico, who if forced to will only grudgingly support Democrats.
beastie boy
(9,381 posts)Bernie and his supporters shot themselves (and America) in the proverbial foot very badly back then. Well, at least it looks like they have learned the lesson.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)Sad to see the Bernie haters are still trying to divide us for some very odd reason.
You would think they would applaud the support.
But their divisiveness will not work this time!
McKim
(2,412 posts)It is past time for Sanders haters to stop. This is tiresome and irrelevant. They should welcome this.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Same concept. Except its a bingo hall and not a cave in the Philippines.
FM123
(10,054 posts)I was a little nervous for awhile after hearing that they would not support the platform unless it included medicare for all. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/bernie-supporters-medicare-single-payer-381972
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)If the Bernie supporters are joining the fight, why would we not accept their help whole-heartedly. I personally accept their help just like I accept the Lincoln Project, Right Side PAC, Republican Voters Against Trump, 43 Alumni for Biden, etc. This is an all out war for the future of our country. Anyone with the goal of removing tRump should be welcomed to the fight.