Democratic Primaries

thesquanderer

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3. Thank you for at least including this key line:

Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:05 AM

Mar 2020

In Sanders’s defense, the House bill is purely a “messaging” device

This was a vote designed to send a message. Remember this was already after Sanders had begun his 2020 campaign. His message has consistently been, the best way to move forward is not to amend ACA but rather to transition to MFA. I am not surprised that he would not want to send two different, conflicting messages during his campaign.

Remember also that even when the ACA was first introduced, he was critical of it even then. But in the end, when the vote mattered, he bit the bullet and voted FOR it, recognizing that this was one of the cases where what he saw as a very imperfect bill was better than none, and that it needed all the votes it could get. (It passed the Senate with just 60 votes.)

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

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