I need to thank Killer Mike.
My mind had wandered from the #OH11 race. I had all but bought into the premise Nina already had it in the bag.
Then KM insulted Clyburn.
Then Clyburn endorsed Shontel Brown.
Then I found out Nina's lead was from her own internal poll.
My mind had wandered from the #OH11 race. I had all but bought into the premise Nina already had it in the bag.
Then KM insulted Clyburn.
Then Clyburn endorsed Shontel Brown.
Then I found out Nina's lead was from her own internal poll.
And that's when I realized Berners were doing the same thing they tried to do with the DNC chair: leap in before anyone else, then promote their candidate's inevitability to discourage others from entering the race.
Go back a little further and you'll realize Bernie pulled the same strategy in TWO presidential primaries: get an early lead to create a buzz about your own inevitability in hopes of making your campaign look and feel like an unstoppable juggernaut.
Flood social media with pro-Bernie tweets. Make Barnie hashtags go viral. Hype the shit out of rally attendance and small money donors to sell the idea you're gonna steamroll your way to victory.
BUT.
Anyone who's fact checked the cult for 5 minutes can see through the ruse.
BUT.
Anyone who's fact checked the cult for 5 minutes can see through the ruse.
And Jim Clyburn's endorsement was the tell: this race will not be decided until the Black voters of #OH11 have their say. SO, to all the loud and perpetually wrong Bernie surrogates with no proven history of being able to organize Black voters, I can only offer two words:
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