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9 days

Let’s talk about @realDonaldTrump .

The other night I walked into my regular bar and some friends I go back to the high school days with were there. In the course of the conversation, they asked me what I thought about President Bide…

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5 months

The amount of dudes who just openly say “Kamala Harris is dumb,” when they’ve achieved like nothing in their lives, is way too high.

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3 years

Neera Tanden has done more good for impoverished people than David Sirota. Full stop.

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3 years

I’m sorry, Elizabeth Warren bothers me. Her entire political career is completely impossible white paper plans on issues and then blaming the people who actually produce and pass plans for not doing enough.

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2 years

The level of civic illiteracy on the left is astounding. The only way to get political outcomes you want is to win elections. You win elections by getting more votes than the opponent. Not voting does not get you more votes. Period.

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3 years

I really hate Yang for bringing up 2016, I’m so sick of explaining to people that Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders because she got way more votes. The idea he got screwed is moon landing denial level stuff.

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16 days

They should resign from the campaign then.

Amanda Terkel

@aterkel

16 days

Several of Biden’s closest allies, including 3 people directly involved in re-election efforts, told @jonallendc @natashakorecki @carolelee they now see his chances of winning as zero. “He needs to drop out,” one Biden campaign official said. “He will never recover from this.”

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2 years

I just read some ex-Obama campaign staffer saying he will end up going down as one of our worst Presidents in history. I basically reject that position wholeheartedly, as someone who started off as a 2007-2008 critic.

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5 months

Most of the criticism about Joe Biden’s age is really just whining about Kamala Harris.

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3 years

Camp David is an official, working residence of the President.

Mark Knoller

@markknoller

3 years

By my count, this is Biden’s 14th visit to Camp David as president. Totals all or part of 45 days. Compares at same point in office with: Trump: 6 visits / 14 days Obama: 11 visits / 27 days GWBush: 26 visits / 81 days

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11 months

Any person that thinks dropping Kamala Harris from the ticket would help Joe Biden doesn’t understand politics at all. 1. She motivates the actual base of the party. 2. Replacing her would set off a feeding frenzy in the press about Biden’s “mistake.”

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2 years

Voting is a straight up binary choice, so long as the GOP remains committed to hurting people. You either vote to hurt people or you don’t. Any other issue you have with the Democratic Party is invalid until the GOP changes.

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3 years

So I’m reading lots of threads where supporters of former Presidential candidates on the left who lost to Joe Biden in the primaries are saying they feel vindicated or that “we told you so” after this week. I have questions. Many questions.

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2 years

I’m old enough to remember when Nina Turner had a 30% lead for Shontel Brown’s Congressional seat. John Fetterman isn’t going to be a Senator.

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9 months

So basically a portion of the left is protesting at Joe Biden’s house he’s not in, calling for a ceasefire he literally doesn’t control, in a battle against an outright terrorist group. Is there anything to add?

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1 year

@ChrissieM10 @InternetH0F That should be a crime.

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2 months

Kick her out of the caucus, @RepJeffries .

Republicans against Trump

@RpsAgainstTrump

2 months

Far-left Dem Rep. Rashida Tlaib blasts President Biden and suggests she’ll not vote for him: “We’re aren't going to forget in November, are we?”

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2 years

If I were Joe Biden, my solution to the student loan issue would be to attack the interest side of the equation. I’d ask Congress to send me a bill eliminating interest on all federally backed loans.

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@RealRichWilkins

7 years

"The policy" didn't put us on the brink of nuclear war- you did.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!

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2 years

Perhaps our lefties need to come to grips with the reality of the Presidency- it’s a limited job. There’s more change to be in state and local government than DC. Presidents get a couple of major achievements. President Obama did that, and pretty well.

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@RealRichWilkins

7 months

We didn’t want Bernie. We rejected him twice.

Jonathan Martin

@jmart

7 months

Don’t blame me, folks. You nominated a man of Senate and institutionalist who still tells the Jesse Helms story his staff cringes at. Shoulda gone w Bernie if ya didn’t want somebody who’d consider a pardon/commutation !

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2 years

Voting once is not sufficient in protecting rights. Giving Democrats a 50-50 Senate is not sufficient. Expecting a whole political party to monolithically support anything is utterly stupid. Repeatedly voting and organizing for your wants is what it takes.

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9 months

If only Democrats in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia had listened to RFK Jr., Cornel West, No Labels, and The Squad.

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2 years

Biden becomes the first President since FDR to lose single digit House seats in his first midterm and these yahoos want him to fire his Veep because he’s “disliked.” Someone explain it to me like I’m an idiot.

Slate

@Slate

2 years

An aging, past-his-prime statesman—especially one as disliked as Biden—needs the momentum of a rising star.

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

1. How would a further left President have brought Manchin in on BBB, or Sinema on voting rights. What Republicans would they have brought in? And how? What would you negotiate with them on climate change or voting rights?

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@RealRichWilkins

2 years

Barack Obama, like most Presidents, had limits to his powers. Congress still has to write and pass laws. Courts still could strike down laws. He wasn’t a dictator. He could not “do something” all by himself. That is not how government works.

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7 years

Congrats to @JeffFlake for voting to take health care from millions of people- while his fellow Arizonan did not! See you in 2018.

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@RealRichWilkins

9 months

Like they ever voted for Biden.

Chief Nerd

@TheChiefNerd

9 months

NOW — Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protesters Are Outside Biden's Delaware Home Chanting “No Ceasefire, No Vote” and “In November, We Remember”

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8 months

DSA isn’t the base. Thanks.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

I figure who I’m not voting for based on who Our Revolution and Justice Dems endorse.

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@RealRichWilkins

2 years

Trump didn’t get his wall. Biden isn’t getting build back better. Dubya didn’t privatize Social Security. “HillaryCare” died on the hill. Daddy Bush did have to raise taxes. So did Reagan. There is no “magic pen.” Presidents have limits to their power.

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3 years

4. Given that these folks are still in the Congress, why aren’t they lobbying their colleagues on these matters, if they’re so good at it?

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

Besides that, executive orders only last as long as the next person in office allows them to. You know what the next President can’t unilaterally repeal? A law. Something a U.S. Senator can write and try to get the votes to pass. So Senator Warren could try that.

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

2. What would a President Sanders or Warren have been able to do that Joe can’t to push back on a 6-3 Supreme Court? Do you think they could actually get 50 votes for court packing out of this senate? You think Manchin or Sinema would back that?

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

I guess though this is what bothers me- we keep hearing how great of a politician Senator Warren is, and how great her fantasy Presidency would have been, but she’s not really good at this, and we dusted her in her home state primary in 2020. It’s annoying af.

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

She ain’t ever going to be President, she ain’t ever going to be Vice-President, she ain’t Ted Kennedy, and she never had a real plan for the two most important things- winning the 2020 election and passing all of her white paper policies into law. So how is she good at this?

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

And just to close the loop on student loan debt, if forgiveness is so popular, Senators Warren and Schumer should put said bill on the Senate floor every week and make the Republicans pass it or eat the political crow for it. Why aren’t they?

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

Mind you, she’s been a Senator since 2013, or nine years now. She could write a new bill anytime, or even just amend Dodd-Frank to address some of the real issues with it. But she hasn’t. And won’t. My guess is that she thinks it’s too hard, but I really don’t know why.

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21 days

Ok, let’s rip the band aid off- most of the folks calling for Biden to step aside know they can’t beat Harris in a convention. Their bet is she will lose in November and be out of their way for 2028. Let’s stop pretending this is anything more.

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3 years

She has basically spent a decade plus saying Dodd-Frank was insufficient market regulation, and President Obama/Senator Dodd/Congressman Frank should have gone further. Then she cites the CFPB as part of her amazing record, which Dodd-Frank created.

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3 years

Then there’s #CancelStudentDebt , which is a great hashtag and even a decent goal. Some sort of reform is needed. Let’s be clear though, in real government you don’t solve huge problems like this through executive orders. It doesn’t work.

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3 years

Instead of doing that though, I guess it’s easier to call on Joe Biden to do something he probably can’t do, while completely ignoring the billions in student loan debt his administration has used existing programs to forgive. Because, you know, that’s smart politics 🙄…

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3 months

When does she go away?

BreakThrough News

@BTnewsroom

3 months

BREAKING: Actress @SusanSarandon has joined the Palestine solidarity activists rallying outside of Columbia University gates to share her message of solidarity with the students.

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3 years

Presidents can’t just cancel privately held debts, which a big chunk of student is. He might be able to forgive *some* interest, but even that’s questionable. Any attempt to cancel $50k likely ends up struck down in court right now. It’s just not that easy.

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

Does she have some good policy ideas? Yeah. Do I appreciate her telling Trump and McConnell to pound sand a few times? Sure. Did I even empathize with her when Bernard called her a liar in a debate? Yes. I don’t hate her. I’m just tired of the hero worshippers for her.

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@RealRichWilkins

3 years

So that’s my rant about her. “Blood and Teeth” 🩸🦷 ain’t a strategy. Or at least it wasn’t one for the Massachusetts Primary, I guess. Just do your job.

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3 years

3. For those arguing to “use the bully pulpit,” how would you exactly do that in WV? What makes you think your messaging would work in the reddest state in Appalachia?

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3 years

6. And finally, on Covid, explain what more you would do, given Congress being reluctant to pass anything more and the courts knocking down further action?

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2 years

If it wasn’t for Katie Porter giving a speech to the Democratic caucus about grocery prices, Democrats might never have known inflation is hurting working class families. What did we do before she arrived in the House?

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@RealRichWilkins

8 years

Look, I despise the man. In my view, @BernieSanders wrote the manual for @realDonaldTrump on attacking Hillary. Trump used his material.

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@RealRichWilkins

8 years

When @BernieSanders takes a bad vote on guns, it's him representing VT. When @CoryBooker does it on pharma, it's because he's a sell-out.

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3 years

5. What exactly is anyone’s answer to Sinema? How do you deal with this person?

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1 year

I never liked AOC. I won’t start now. It was completely predictable though that the lefties would turn on her the moment she tried to be remotely like a normal Dem. I’m here for it. She’s done a lot of damage. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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@RealRichWilkins

2 years

And this happened to Obama too. On background checks. On the public option. On cap and trade. On the sequester. On Garland. That’s the job. Most people forget that LBJ struggled to do anything after 1965 and his final SCOTUS nominee died in a Democratic Senate.

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6 years

The only thing that should matter, in so long as Trump is President, is electing a Democratic Speaker in 2019. That’s the only way to halt his advance.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

I want pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-gun safety, pro-health care, pro-labor, pro-social progressive, pro-immigration, etc. candidates. I also want more Democrats. You have to be flexible on some things, or we can’t win.

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8 months

Sudanese and Armenian kids are actually facing genocide, but nobody is shutting down campuses and restaurants over them. It ain’t about morality, folks.

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1 year

Unfortunately a large chunk of white Democrats believe there is a massive number of convertible voters out there right now, if we could just get *them* to focus on what they agree with us on. There isn’t.

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2 years

The program she is describing is not current Medicare.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal

@RepJayapal

2 years

Medicare for All means no copays, no deductibles, no hidden fees, no medical debt. It’s time.

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7 years

@BernieSanders 1. First off, it's worth noting that the Independent Senator from Vermont was calling on the "super delegates" to overturn the results of the 2016 primaries to make him the nominee, after calling them a corrupt system, which he's back to now. He's inconsistent.

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6 months

It seems to me that leftists had a real problem with any Israeli response to October 7th. Bombing? War crimes. Special forces? War crimes. If they had just embargoed Gaza? War crime. Ok then. So what was October 7th? And what should the response have been?

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6 years

Please stop romanticizing “losing with principle.” I’m a straight, white, Catholic, suburban, upper middle class male. I don’t get hurt when we “lose with principle.” Our base voters do.

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6 months

Dobbs is the decisive issue. As it was in 2022. Most men just don’t get that.

Naperville Politics Guy

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The three biggest issues the 2024 election will be defined on: 1. Biden’s age 2. War in Gaza 3. Border Crisis

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5 months

Remember when some folks took her seriously?

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6 years

This whole attack on @JoyAnnReid is nothing but a made-up hit-job from 🌹 twitter because she refuses to give Bernard a pass. That whole movement disgusts me.

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2 years

Their position is that he had the last possible moment to act to reform America and squandered it. It’s basically “he wasn’t bold/was a neoliberal/wasn’t ‘tough’ enough,” combined with this imaginary idea that 2009-2017 was our last chance as a country.

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@RealRichWilkins

7 years

Okay, time for a hard take down on why this is idiotic from @BernieSanders ...

POLITICO

@politico

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. @BernieSanders writes in @POLITICOMag : "It is absurd that the Democratic Party now gives over 700 superdelegates...the power to control the nominating process and ignore the will of voters"

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2 years

This also means sometimes you vote for a flawed candidate that you mostly agree with. In fact, unless you run yourself you’ll never get someone you totally agree with. Sometimes you have to take 60% or 80% of what you want. That’s better than none.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

Your principles and values don’t mean much to those oppressed by their own government. If you care about the rights of women, the LGBTQ commmunity, POC, the poor, immigrants, or any other group Democrats defend, make winning your priority.

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2 years

Beyond moral reasons or policy positions, this is why I generally support Democratic candidates with strong support from Black voters and leaders. Black voters are far more pragmatic and realistic than white progressives. When they have plans, they’re thought out.

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2 years

For whatever reason I just read through some “dO SoMEtHiNG” Twitter threads 🧵, because I hate myself, but it’s got me thinking a bit. Their basic premise is that the sky is falling, and immediate, sometimes radical actions need to be taken by people without the agency to do so.

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2 years

You don’t get your way by protesting. Or canceling. Or meme’ing. The only way to get outcomes from the government that are good is winning elections. You can’t bully the majority in the government into doing what you want. You have to win.

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8 days

Anyone who thinks someone besides Biden is going to do better in November knows absolutely nothing about campaigns, or they’re a liar. This is not a good faith argument.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

So that’s it. Use their endorsements as a guide this primary season. Vote against their voices of chaos. Vote to make sure we beat Donald Trump and Paul Ryan in November of 2018.

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@RealRichWilkins

7 years

@BernieSanders 2. Let's talk about the super delegates for a minute. Without them in 2016, Hillary is still the winner. Without them in 2008, Barack Obama is still the winner. Without them in 2004, John Kerry is still the winner. Without them in 2000, Al Gore still wins.

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3 years

I was 18 on 9/11, 22 at the height of the Iraq War, 25 for the 2008 Great Recession, and 33 when Trump took office. I’m very tough on my generation and younger people for the rise of far lefty politics, and deservedly so, but we have lived our entire adult lives in crisis.

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@RealRichWilkins

8 years

First- the level of purity @BernieSanders holds his colleagues to that he won't hold himself to. As we saw with @CoryBooker this week.

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@RealRichWilkins

8 years

I do fault the troll supporters of @BernieSanders though for their ignorance. They claim up is down, the sky is green, the world is flat.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

Nina is not your friend. Glenn is not your friend. Jane is not your friend. Nomiki is not your friend. Jimmy is not your friend. All of these people are fine with you getting hurt for them to get their way, and usually make some cash 💵.

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I’ve got a couple of chief problems with them though. They’re militant. They mislead their followers. They attack the party fighting for their causes. They lack any understanding of the process.

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@RealRichWilkins

8 years

It may be inconvenient for @BernieSanders , but we have to address racial inequality with more than screeching about the 1%.

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8 years

It's like this on everything. @BernieSanders is never wrong for doing what he nails others for doing. It's the height of hypocrisy.

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8 years

And it means that when @BernieSanders and his supporters pull stunts like they did w/ Senator Booker this week, I'm going to punch back.

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@RealRichWilkins

6 years

It also means that come November, vote for that Democratic State Senator that doesn’t excite you and is wrong on an issue or two. Don’t “protest vote” away close races.

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8 years

The #BernieBros are infamous, but @BernieSanders has lots of supporters who will deny basic factual things- like he lost the primary.

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6 years

Their unfair and unstrategic attacks on the @DCCC for trying to get moderate candidates in moderate districts is going to cost us seats in the 2018 midterms. That’s unforgivable.

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5 months

So basically, leftists spent money and made noise, and it got them 13% instead of 11% in Michigan. They didn’t win anything. They might win a delegate, but not much. No attention for the cause. Just failure.

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8 years

Look, for the love of God, @BernieSanders got less votes and delegates.The DNC doesn't like him, but there were no actions to cheat him.

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@KateAndrs We are not MAGA today.

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8 years

When he attacks "identity politics," @BernieSanders conveniently ignores a truth- our party is not his primarily white, liberal base.

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7 years

@mattyglesias @JoeBiden @HillaryClinton @FBI @MartinOMalley @CoryBooker @KamalaHarris @SenWarren @MarkWarner @timkaine @BernieSanders P.S.- African-American women are our base. You don't get out nomination without them. He's not getting there. Goodbye.

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10 months

Saw @billmaher ’s “new rules” tonight, and the guy has no idea what he’s talking about. Joe Biden is the only Democrat with a prayer. Any younger Democrat will get absolutely crushed.

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8 years

And that's fine with me, but don't pretend @BernieSanders is some sort of political Messiah, who will achieve what @POTUS couldn't.

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3 months

Unpopular, but factual opinion- @JoeBiden wins the election at senior homes, not encampments on campus. Chase the right votes.

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8 years

They want to pretend that @BernieSanders is the solution to a false problem in the first place- that the Democratic Party "sucks."

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3 years

I cannot believe the @DNC is allowing an organization under their umbrella to make such an outrageous attack on President Biden. Tying student loan forgiveness to an MLK quote on civil rights is insanity.

Young Democrats of America

@youngdems

3 years

Whether it is Sen. Joe Manchin on BBB, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on the Filibuster, or President Joe Biden on Student Debt Relief, the white moderate is still alive and well and continues to block progress. Today on Martin Luther King day, we are calling on them to do the right thing.

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6 years

This means accepting 65% of what we want sometimes to win. That’s still one vote for a Democratic Speaker (I hope @NancyPelosi ). That’s the most important vote in Congress.

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8 years

Look, @BernieSanders has spent his whole career tearing down the Democratic Party for not being good enough. I couldn't disagree more.

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8 years

Let's be very, very clear here- @BernieSanders is super-flawed. Some of the stuff you've heard about, but some you probably haven't.

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8 months

Today was the longest day ever. I lost my grandmother today. After 40 years, I never thought I would. It honestly hit worse than earlier relatives. Because I had come to believe it wouldn’t happen.

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