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Hortensis

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8. Biggest reason: Sanders is NOT her ideological mate.
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 05:48 PM
Mar 2020

Good grief. He demonizes and has spent decades insisting on the necessity of destroying what she values tremendously. She is a rational, competent, iconoclast of good character who believes in using the power of the large, very powerful mainstream "establishment" to serve everyone, of course including the mainstream voters who above all created it.

How many times and ways does that have to be proven?

She refused to endorse Sanders in 2016. There are genuine, implacable differences in ideology, personality and principles. Sanders made similar attempts to woo her then.

She instead waited basically to the end to endorse Hillary, another person Sanders demonized, during which time they negotiated what she wanted in return for her support. Btw, in 2015 and 2016 both Biden (considering running) and Hillary approached her seriously about her becoming their VP running mate, and she was open to discussion with Biden, who ended up not running, and, as we know, wanted to run with Hillary. They even took it out for a public test run.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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