Newsweek: BERNIE SANDERS LEADS DONALD TRUMP BY WIDEST MARGIN OF ALL 2020 CANDIDATES: ELECTION POLL

Yeah, good luck with that.

I'll take Bloomberg, thank you. He comes with money and policies that don't scare people. I'll wait for another Elizabeth Warren type that wants change without full blown Socialism to come around in 2024 or 2028.

Next week it will be someone else.

I keep saying Bernie for the win. People won't listen. He is the only one who can beat him.

National surveys don't matter. The popular vote doesn't matter. What matters is winning in enough swing states to win the Electoral College.

It’s obvious now that Senator Sanders has been on an upward surge. A stunning outcome when one considers how much he’s had to rail against.

Actually, it’s stunning DESPITE what he’s endured.

Even if this is true - and that is an enormous IF - there are no world records to be had. Winning is winning by whatever margin.

Also, if he were the candidate and did win, we'd have to live with him as president. More pointedly, we'd have to run the risk of his losing the next election, rather than having a strong candidate that can go the distance for two terms.

I'm starting to warm towards Bernie.

R7 Oh, he WILL go the distance.

And he’s going to hit the bull’s fucking eye.

You really don’t need to have the title in all caps, Bernie-troll. It’s the equivalent of screaming and people are going to take you less seriously than they already do.

R10 Newsweek has it in all caps, retard. I just copy and pasted.

Oh, and -

Always and forever Bernie...

Doesn't matter. The DNC would rather lose with Biden than win with Sanders.

Bwahahahahahahaha, gasp, choke, wheeze, fart, shart, Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah

R15...

OP, your Newsweek link doesn't show it all in caps.

How much did you give to his campaign, OP/Bernie Troll?

R18 The answer is nothing, socialist always use other people's money.

Ms. Ball schools the children as David “delicious dick” Doel commentates.

Do you people really resent Sanders that much for daring to challenge Clinton?

"Widest margin of all 2020 candida" - is what it says on my screen. I'll agree with that.

I won’t vote for him.

Just give him the nomination and let him lose. No Democrat is beating Trump this year. Let Sanders lose against Trump and and the far Left fringe controlling the Democratic Party will be destroyed.

Bernie will lose the nom and then screw up the general yet again.

Bernie will kick Dump’s ass.

Democratic socialism

All Bernie has to do is point out the fact that Donald Trump wants to end Social Security and Medicare because they are socialist programs.

He’ll win.

Bernie is surging

He won’t win. No Dem will, but both Bernie and Liz will have the biggest losses in history. Trump will use it as a mandate.

R31 Trump is done. He’s an Impeached President and will be referred to as such for the duration of his life. His mandate is to get the fuck out of the White House.

As for Bernie and Liz, they will expertly diagram for the people what exactly is going on:

Republicans along with a certain faction of the Democratic Party, are looking to eliminate ALL forms of socialism in the United States, including Social Security and Medicare. I mean, we have PLENTY of evidence to prove this.

The United States of America is a SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.

WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP THIS!!!! Please!! For the love, dignity and survival of the Democratic Party, please stop this shit.

WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP THIS!!!! Please!! For the love, dignity and survival of the Democratic Party, please stop this shit.

Most of the Democratic candidates lead Trump in many of the polls, Bernie included, so this isn't really breaking news.

I genuinely think Biden could win if he gets a good vice presidential candidate to run with.

R34 Tell them to get out of our party if that’s what you really want 👇🏻

Get this bitch out of our party, too, while you’re at it 👇🏻

I would say to get Bernie out of the party but he's not a Democrat.

[quote]Actually, it’s stunning DESPITE what he’s endured.

Yeah, the adoration of Bernie Bros would try the endurance of Job himself.

Trump ain’t going anywhere, especially with this economy. Better luck next time.

My vote won't count because I live in a winner-takes-all-electors deep red state .. but I will be voting whoever the Dem nominee is.

Let the pollsters study the voting patterns after the election and I hope they'll see they no longer have a guaranteed, sure-fire lock on white voters because their numbers fell from 2016. I'll regard that as the best election outcome I can have.

The question is will Bernie make it to November without another heart attack.

I repeat for your benefit, R40:

Trump is done. He’s an Impeached President and will be referred to as such for the duration of his life. His mandate is to get the fuck out of the White House.

As for Bernie and Liz, they will expertly diagram for the people what exactly is going on:

Republicans along with a certain faction of the Democratic Party, are looking to eliminate ALL forms of socialism in the United States, including Social Security and Medicare. I mean, we have PLENTY of evidence to prove this.

The United States of America is a SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.

Look, I will vote for whomever the Democratic nominee is BUT Sanders will be a hold my nose and vote candidate. I think that his supporters are just as frantic as Trump supporters and it makes me very uncomfortable. I also believe he is partly to blame from Trump's victory in 2016, and there is a part of me that feels he wanted Trump to win so he could run again in 2020.

R44 Aren’t you a Dump supporter, though?

R45 In fact, I'm not! I have never voted for the GOP. I voted for Clinton in 2016, and Obama before that. It is possible to be a democrat and think that Bernie Sanders is a idiot. Currently I am supporting Warren.

R46 Okay. I’m a Democrat and support Bernie. I supported him in the ‘16 primary, but voted for Clinton in the general.

Warren is my second pick.

Bernie Bros are worse than Trump supporters! So obnoxious

I'm not voting for a Putin puppet and neither should you.

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[QUOTE]Step two was audience growth. The IRA did so by creating pages and content that were not necessarily political or even divisive, but simply meant to attract more eyeballs to IRA-controlled pages and accounts. By early 2015, the IRA had turned to audience-building around divisive social issues by creating social media groups and pages posing as U.S. groups and activists, such as “Secured Borders” and “Blacktivist” (see pages 22-25 of the Special Counsel report).

[QUOTE]Step three was to turn this network political. It was only once the IRA established its audience base that it turned explicitly to the U.S. elections around February 2016, with the explicit goal of undermining the Clinton campaign. Instructions to the IRA read, at the time: “Main idea: use any opportunity to criticize Hillary [Clinton] and the rest (except [bold]Sanders and Trump – we support them[/bold])” (p. 25).

No, you’re clearly RETARDED if you think Russia is backing Bernie Sanders.

Were they funding his Civil Rights protests and arrests in the 1960’s, too?

Actually, back then your kind was probably screaming, “It’s the Commies helping the niggers! We’ve got to stop them!”

[quote] No, you’re clearly RETARDED if you think Russia is backing Bernie Sanders.

This sentence says so much about the type of person you are.

R51

[quote] Retard, when used as a verb is to refer to delay or hold back in terms of progress or development, or to be delayed.

This sentence says so much about WHAT you are.

I will not vote for Bernie b/c I hate the Bros.

If Bernie Bros were religious, they'd be like Leftist version of fundies. Always trying to shout down people who deviate from their own beliefs, always trying to denigrate those who have brains and think for themselves instead of adhering to ideology. Bernie Bros and fundies also share deep streak of misogyny and to a lesser degree homophobia. They inhabit all of the worst "virtues" of fundies even as they scream that they're progressive.

Retard = person who continues to refer to Sanders’ supporters as “Bros” when -

R54 you are spot on with that description. Do you mind if I steal that? It incapsulates the Bros perfectly.

R56 Sure, and I agree; it’s perfect for the Dumpsters.

Vote for Marianne Williamson before Bernie Sanders.

Marianne is honest and ethical.

Bernie is obviously going to win and the Trumpian retards are panicking!

I'm in CA and our primary election happens March 3rd. I am in no way ready to make a choice.

I honestly have a hard time imagining Bernie as president but if he wins I have no choice to vote for him. I just hope he picks a good VP.

These are scary times.

In a surprise move, MSNBC explains #DemocraticSocialism and details how "hallmarks" of Democratic Socialism are already part of the American ecosystem.

Bernie couldn't handle two Black Lives Matter lesbians that took the stage from him in 2016. How's he going to cope with Trump on stage?

R62 Bernie handed the mic to them unlike Trump, who would’ve had them manhandled and kicked out.

Bernie will eviscerate Trump. I actually predict he’ll cause Trump to have a tantrum or emotional breakdown.

[quote]What matters is winning in enough swing states to win the Electoral College.

Bernie is actually more popular in the midwest than Biden. The only midwestern state where Biden does better than Sanders is PA. Sanders is very popular in MI, WI and MN.

The Morning Consult poll released yesterday showed Sanders doing better with Independents than Biden. That's really the most important metric to determine who is best to beat Trump. And if you add in the fact that young voters are a lot more inclined to vote if Sanders is the nominee, then I think it's clear that he's the most electable.

Sanders has to pick a VP that will appeal to black voters and not scare off suburban women.

[quote] Trump is done. He’s an Impeached President and will be referred to as such for the duration of his life. His mandate is to get the fuck out of the White House.

He’s going to be found not guilty and win a second term by a landslide. Keep dreaming.

The ads against Bernie are going to be dreadful and with the money the RNC has they’ll be played on every network 24/7 and ads will be placed all over the Internet.

r66 I wish more democrats could see this, they are going to destroy Bernie with his past communist history. Add on his open borders and taking away peoples health insurance and forcing them onto the government plan, it won't be pretty.

[italic] You go, Gramps!

I really think this is the Russians and Republicans trying to push him to be the nominee against Trump.

I agree R69 but the Bros will never see that.

What a rough couple of years, first I had to accept Trump winning the WH, now I have to accept Bernie as a (potential) nominee? It’s like my least favorite people from 2016 are coming back to haunt me. I’ll fall in line, but this would be disheartening if Bernie takes the nomination.

Bad enough that I had to put up with Hillary’s crazy campaign, so I guess 4 more years of crazy won’t be the end of the world. I voted for President for the first time in 2012. How we went from near perfect to great candidates like Obama to this current batch is beyond me.

As a staunch Obama supprter I’m not sure what supposed to be appealing about Bernie.

[Quote]Bernie Bros and fundies also share deep streak of misogyny and to a lesser degree homophobia. They inhabit all of the worst "virtues" of fundies even as they scream that they're progressive.

Nailed it.

R69 Yup.

And now Joe Rogan enodrsed Bernie🤮

Democratic Socialists: "Their goal is to control prices of essential services... All that sounds reasonable."

Uh, no, that doesn't. It causes negative side effects, which then require controls to control those effects, which in turn creates additional negative side effects and so on.

YES!

This has been consistent in the polls.

This feels like a Russian bot setup to get Bernie as the nominee so he can lose.

I am pretty sure, Putin and the Oil Oligarchs of Russia do not want a Bernie Sanders as President. A President who will double down on American Democracy and will take action in the Climate Crisis.

[quote] As for Bernie and Liz, they will expertly diagram for the people what exactly is going on:

LOL at the thought of “expert diagramming” winning over any Trump supporters.

Trump with steamroll over commie Bernie.

Re: what R69 said, with this Joe Rogan dust-up on Twitter, I'm seeing literally hundreds of accounts clearly labeled as conservative, Republican and/or Trump supporters who are defending Rogan and Sanders both.

Also seeing Sanders supporters say "yeah we want Trump voters on our side, because we both agree that Democrats are the real evil."

It's getting pretty scary and it's only January. The Warren thing activated the BernieBro trolls and shit has been nuts ever since. It's bad enough that a good portion of the people I follow on Twitter have just quietly left because they can't say ANYTHING without a troll showing up out of nowhere.

R78, they don't think he has much chance of winning but he WILL cause chaos and divide the electorate. And if Sanders does win, he has no real clout or allies or friends and won't get anything done. They'd be very happy with that outcome.

Sanders fighting for child molesters in prison to be able to vote makes him instantly DOA with voters.

"And now Joe Rogan enodrsed Bernie"

So? Hillary was JUST ON Howard Stern's show, and compared to Howard, Joe looks like a choir boy.

Not anymore, R84. Stern cleaned himself up years ago and everyone has forgotten the way he used to be, largely because it's not easy to get his old shows.

Also, Clinton isn't running for anything, a fact a lot of you seem to forget.

R75 Unregulated capitalism causes “negative side effects”, too.

We’re living through some of those effects now.

He has a chance. That's why Hillary was shit talking him.

He has more than a chance, R88; he’s going to win.

He won’t win but will get the nomination.

R90 If he gets the nomination, he’s winning.

Impeached Dump doesn’t stand a chance.

Beautiful

This will stay true.

Commie does not work because Trump is working for Putin.

Fascism does not work because Trump locks children in cage.

Americans want health care insurance (medicare for all) and increase pensions from Social Security.

Bernie will beat Trump,

Yes, but will R95 learn English?

Preach, R95.

Also, neoliberal and neocon won’t work because he wants to keep and INPROVE upon Social Security and Medicare.

....

Whoever thinks polls with a few thousand people represent some kind of meaningful average of millions of people is insane.

Do the exact same poll 5min later with the neighbor of each polled person and you’ll get completely different statistics.

Translate R100: Polls only count when MY choice for the nomination is at the top.

A gem!

So Trump starts to realize that his best bet to keep Biden from being the nominee is to start shilling for Sanders. And suddenly the Russian bots start touting Sanders as the one to beat. Too funny. Russian bots be gone!!!

Trump vs Bernie: two old white men with heart conditions yelling at each other — it’s going to be a great year!

R103 Dump and his Russian friends are scared of Bernie per that audio, lol

R105 It's a ruse. They know that if the Democrats nominate a socialist, it gives them everything they need to win the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Ain't nobody really scared of a socialist promising free stuff. Like history has shown, white folks don't really want to share with Blacks and Latinos. So though they say they like what Bernie is saying, it never shows at the ballot box.

Convincing folks that Trump and team are scared of a Bernie nomination is laughable because such a nomination all but guarantees a GOP win in the House, Senate and the Presidency. Then, the world is doomed! Trump will get more SCOTUS justices and continue to fill the federal court system.

A Bernie Sanders nomination could literally be the death of us all.

Why do Gay Men hate Bernie so? He is pro-gay marriage (was pro-gay marriage his whole life), long before Hillary was. I read a thread on reddit, where the young gay guys felt it was an age issue. Young gay men (i.e., under age 30) are over-whelmingly pro-Bernie. As age increases, Bernie support in the gay male community falls off. So it is age-related.

So eldergays, explain. What have you got against him? He is a populist He is in favor of cutting everybody some slack. Why do you hate him? And before you say it is because Trump will win, Hillary actually proved that model and y'all still love her. So what is up?

Yall and this hate Bernie silliness! I prefer tall beautiful men. That doesn't mean I hate women. Bernie might do it for the younger crowd. He doesn't for a lot of the older seasoned crowd who can see through dog $hit!

The latest from the battleground.

They hate Bernie because he dared to challenge their Diva Queen.

Trump is not losing no matter who runs against him.

To support Sanders, you either have to ignore all American political history, or you have to not care about backing the guy who gives Trump a second term. Even if he won, the potential for a disastrous presidency is greater than the potential for a successful or neutral term. Believing this is either naive or arrogant, which is why Sanders supporters do not do well on this site.

The Berners have crossed the rubicon into pure Stepford Wives-like hysteria!

They just keep posting "Bernie is winning! Bernie is winning! Bernie is winning!" en masse! They have declared their allegiance to their cult leader!

If Bernie is doing so well, in which states is he grabbing big delegate totals? ANY fool who thinks a Socialist/Communist Russia-loving, deadbeat dad, elderly do-nothing Senator who REFUSES to work with people, and is DESPISED by those who actually know him, (other than his entire family who are on the campaign payroll making hundreds of thousand of dollars), is going to win ANY Presidential nominating election let alone beat Donald Trump is MENTALLY ILL!

Super Tuesday is Bernie's LAST DAY as a competing potential Democratic nominee, as he will be mathematically eliminated on that day! The following day will be the first day of Bernie Sanders' campaign AGAINST ALL DEMOCRATS (you see, I NEVER was one of THEM!), basically once more becoming part of the Trump campaign!

The Jacobin (gag!) will write MANY articles telling us that ANY Democrat still in the race is JUST AS BAD as Trump, of not worse, which basically they are already doing!

Mark my words and check back. If I'm wrong I'll admit it, but I'm not wrong!

I can’t believe Trump admitted that Bernie is.”better than me” ina secret meeting.

What did we learn from the #TrumpTapes?

✅ Trump is only scared of Bernie Sanders.

✅ Trump wanted Joe Biden to run.

I hope the campaign does an ad with the audio!

It would have been tougher because 12 percent of Sanders’ supporters would have voted for Trump.

If we go down this route, get ready for a classic Republican campaign attacking the lazy socialist. These tactics have never lost on a national stage, but the Bernie folks always believe he will be the first exception to every rule.

Hoping that Bloomberg runs third party if suicidal Dems go with Bernie. I’ll write in Mickey Mouse before I vote for Bernie in November.

R115 “[Bernie| is the ONLY ONE I didn’t want [Clinton] to pick... He’s a big trade guy... and he’s right....”

In private 2018 meeting with staff.

Sanders already shot himself in the foot when he became an open borders advocate.

There's no way he'll be POTUS.

R101 absolutely not. I’m talking about all polls.

Sanders will be the nominee, no doubt.

damn sanders will lose to trump , he wont support another dem if he loses the nom ….MESS