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Sep 28, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Why is anyone investigating Black voters--90% of whom voted for Hillary Clinton--rather than, say, white Bernie voters, 25% of whom voted for Trump & 5% of whom voted 3rd party? They seem more likely to have been seduced by Russian influencers. Jill Stein hosted Wikileaks and RT.
Since some are missing my point--BLACK voters WEREN'T "deterred" from voting for Hillary. WHITE Bernie voters--who were also targeted--were. 25% voted for Trump; 5% for Stein. They absolutely were hoodwinked into voting to put Trump in office. THAT is a story. THIS is not.
What actually happened in 2016 is 3d party voters threw the election to Trump in PA, WI and MI. Hillary lost by a mere 77k votes; 3rd party votes were 800k. EVERYONE who worked on Bernie's 2020 campaign voted 3rd party & say so often. Let's stop ignoring the actual facts of 2016.
Why this matters is because there is a phalanx of voters STILL claiming that Bernie was cheated in 2020, as they did in 2016. This disinformation is dangerous this close to #Election2020. It doesn't matter who your candidate was now--it matters that Trump is the alternative.

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