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NEW: Establishment Dems are growing increasingly nervous about the BERNIE threat - and a messy convention
Why?
-His bottomless online $
-Massive field
-A mere 15% threshold for delegates
-Early Super Tues
And what 🥕 or sticks are there for him?
nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/…
Why?
-His bottomless online $
-Massive field
-A mere 15% threshold for delegates
-Early Super Tues
And what 🥕 or sticks are there for him?
nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/…
There have been initial conversations about a Stop Bernie push - and Clintonworld folks like @davidbrockdc believe they can’t wait a la Republicans with Trump.
But there’s real concern about making Bernie a martyr and alienating his loyalists
But there’s real concern about making Bernie a martyr and alienating his loyalists
Even the most outspoken Bernie critics - like Brock! - grasp the conundrum they face: rallying the party’s donor class to fund a Stop Bernie effort would also be online $ gold for...Bernie.
“You can see him reading the headlines now: ‘Rich people don’t like me.’”
“You can see him reading the headlines now: ‘Rich people don’t like me.’”
While the anxiety among many establishment-types is about Bernie, there are others in the party (who don’t want to be quoted!) who are nervous simply bc of the rules and big field:
Longtime pros believe they will *not* have a nominee at end of the primary
Longtime pros believe they will *not* have a nominee at end of the primary
Former Obama moneyman @rufusgifford makes important point: @BernieSanders going to have the $ to be on air/digital before and during early voting in Tex + Calif — the two Super Tuesday behemoths
...right on time
Was lost in the CAP flap over weekend, but BERNIE is offering honey as well as vinegar: he invited @rweingarten, a major Hillary ally, to join him in Ohio Sunday. And on first trip to Iowa as candidate,, he met privately w @linkiowa & fmr Ag Sec @pattyforiowa about rural policy
As @taddevine - Bernie's longtime consultant till this election - put it to me:
“If anybody thinks Bernie Sanders is incapable of doing politics, they haven’t seen him in Congress for 30 years. The guy is trying to win this time.”
“If anybody thinks Bernie Sanders is incapable of doing politics, they haven’t seen him in Congress for 30 years. The guy is trying to win this time.”
