Biden mounts behind-the-scenes mission to win over wary progressives

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11. Define fake. You may very well disagree with them, but they are obviously real enough that

the Biden campaign is meeting with them.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Movement

In the summer of 2013, Evan Weber, Matthew Lichtash, and environmentalist Michael K. Dorsey used a $30,000 grant plus free office space provided by the Sierra Club and the Wesleyan University Green Fund to draft an ambitious plan for climate action, which was the basis for the incorporation of the US Climate Plan 501(c)(3) nonprofit (aka Sunrise Movement Education Fund) incorporated in January 2014.

Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash started the Sunrise Movement on the East Coast in 2015. Blazevic, Prakash, and other early leaders trained at Momentum, an organization that teaches community organizing.

The Sunrise Movement launched as a 501(c)(4) in 2017. During the 2018 midterms, they worked to oust candidates who would not refuse funding from the fossil fuel industry and to elect proponents of renewable energy. Half of the group's first 20 endorsements won their elections. Deb Haaland, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar won election to the House of Representatives and six other endorsed candidates won election to state house or senate seats in Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.

After the 2018 elections, the Sunrise Movement has focused on the climate change proposals collectively known as the Green New Deal, whose core principles have been described as "decarbonization, jobs, and justice." Its proposals include a transition to renewable energy, expanded public transportation, and an economic plan to drive job growth. Several publications have reported that the Green New Deal opposes nuclear power and carbon capture as well as some other technologies. However, Senator Ed Markey, the co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution in the United States senate, stated that the resolution's language is technology-agnostic and does not exclude nuclear power or carbon capture.

Younger votes are needed to win versus Trump. Tothink otherwise is the height of hubris.

Biden has a real Xennial (cuspers 1977-80 born) mainline Millennial, Zennial (cuspers born 1992/3-97/98), and mainline Gen Z (born 1997 onward) voter issue.

You cannot just say, sod off, we do not need you, to us. There HAS to be outreach along all our various ideological stripes.


From the Washington Post Super Tuesday all states aggregator

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/exit-polls-2020-super-tuesday-primary/#AGE





Those are very weak numbers that need to be (combined with GOTV efforts to raise the absolute numbers of younger voters as well) improved far beyond just assuming all under 45's flow to Biden once Sanders drops out. The same applies to the farther left liberal end of the spectrum to. One does NOT have to pander, but you simply cannot go scorched earth either. Once you get into the oldest Gen Xers and especially the Boomers and older cohorts, you are going into the teeth of Trump's centre of strength, especially amongst white men and unfortunately even (albeit to a lesser extent) white women as well.