Lets Discuss What went wrong with Bernie Sanders' campaign ?

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1. He was already fighting from behind, rather ppl want to admit it or not..the coverage of him vs others has been night and day.

2. He did not cater enough to boomers, last 2 elections showed it runs through them. The next progressive will have to cater to them as well. I am not sure what really because Bernie did have good policies for them, I guess he didnt market himself better.
 

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lily white cacs run his campaign and some blavity negro who is out of touch with black society is his PR person. All the black ppl he reached out to like Killer Mike hold no weight in black society.
 

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Bernie "lost" because everyone coalesced behind Biden before Super Tuesday and Warren didn't drop out fast enough (probably conspiring with the DNC) which split a lot of votes Bernie could have easily won if it was just a head to head on Super Tuesday.
Bernie bros or not having "strong" political allies were not the issues. If the DNC didnt formulate a plan before Super Tuesday Bernie would have been the nominee by now.

Bernie refused to work with the DNC. If the ppl who run the process don’t believe you’ll work with them they won’t help you.
The DNC robbed him in 2016 and made it clear that they would rather have 4 more years of Trump than 4 years of Bernie. He had no allies besides progressives.
 

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Bernie got fukked by his own party, the media, and large corporations.

Whoever says it's because he had no 'black agenda' or 'his ideas were too ambitious' are disingenuous because first no other serious candidate had a 'black agenda', southern blacks voted for biden because he goes to church and was Obama's token white guy. Second, you vote for a candidate because you like their agenda. You give them a chance at the presidency and let them shoot their shot. If they miss badly you come back and say okay this wasn't smart or you could simply put pressure on your politicians to lean more left to get things that benefit us. If people had this mentality of not voting for candidates with ambitious ideas we'd probably still be in chains.

Actually I think it’s more that the reason Senators rarely make President is because Governors/mayors already show they can work as top of a government so there is less resistance to “let’s see what he can do”.

Senators by nature unless you were a major name don’t have that kind of pull to have their names associated with legislation that passes as is and not associated with the president who signs it.
 

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I do find a bit of irony in how much of a stink Bernie people made about a brokered convention being undemocratic and that is looking like the only way Bernie could get the nom.

Bernie essentially ended his own campaign by raising his hand.
 

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Bernie "lost" because everyone coalesced behind Biden before Super Tuesday and Warren didn't drop out fast enough (probably conspiring with the DNC) which split a lot of votes Bernie could have easily won if it was just a head to head on Super Tuesday.
Bernie bros or not having "strong" political allies were not the issues. If the DNC didnt formulate a plan before Super Tuesday Bernie would have been the nominee by now.


The DNC robbed him in 2016 and made it clear that they would rather have 4 more years of Trump than 4 years of Bernie. He had no allies besides progressives.

Bernie got a platform bc the dnc allowed him too.

Bernie has been a senator for 13 years. If he actually cared about winning he’d get a good percentage of senators to endorse him. But he doesn’t, his goal is to burn everything to the ground.

He doesn’t care about actually implementing a thing
 

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Bernie got a platform bc the dnc allowed him too.

Bernie has been a senator for 13 years. If he actually cared about winning he’d get a good percentage of senators to endorse him. But he doesn’t, his goal is to burn everything to the ground.

He doesn’t care about actually implementing a thing
Making proposals like ending wars, free education, free health care, etc aren't ideas that burn everything to the ground, when republican and democratic voters agree with these issues. These ideas poll high amongst voters.
It doesn't matter if they "gave him" a platform when they have shown they'll do anything to take it away if he has a shot at winning. If warren dropped out and mayor pete and amy stayed Bernie would have had a 150+ delegate lead right now even if he still lost some of the states in the last few primaries.
 

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Making proposals like ending wars, free education, free health care, etc aren't ideas that burn everything to the ground, when republican and democratic voters agree with these issues. These ideas poll high amongst voters.
It doesn't matter if they "gave him" a platform when they have shown they'll do anything to take it away if he has a shot at winning. If warren dropped out and mayor pete and amy stayed Bernie would have had a 150+ delegate lead right now even if he still lost some of the states in the last few primaries.

Bruh why are you pretending like Bloomberg was not stealing votes that would’ve went to Biden. And in case you forgot, Amy and Pete’s voters went to Biden. Not Bernie.
 
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