CNN to host Bernie Sanders at 2020 town hall

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Sen. Bernie Sanders will head to Washington next Monday for a town hall moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

The Independent senator from Vermont announced his candidacy for the presidency early Tuesday and will address a host of issues at the town hall, which will air at 8 p.m. ET.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/politics/cnn-town-hall-bernie-sanders/index.html

[comradebillyboy]

1. Oh darn, I will be trimming my toenails and will have to miss it.

[GatoGordo]

2. So then CNN will be hosting the other candidates town hall meetings too?

Or, just Sanders?

[brooklynite]

4. They did one for Klobuchar, so I'm guessing they'll get around to every announced candidate

[disillusioned73]

11. I would like to see Tulsi Gabbard get one..

Kamala & the Billionaire dude have had one.. oh, & Klobuchar had one last night...

[Politicub]

20. Who?

[disillusioned73]

32. I guess you don't follow politics much..

[obamanut2012]

56. ???

[disillusioned73]

59. Here you go..

[JonLP24]

17. They did one for Harris by herself and Klobuchar by herself

CNN even gave Schultz his own town hall.

[Honeycombe8]

19. Another independent, Howard Schultz, is also having a townhall.

Maybe Howie & Bernie can share. Go halvsies on the cost.

[JonLP24]

21. He already had his town hall

Who clearly is not running in a Democratic primary while Sanders has already qualified for the primary debates by grassroots fundraising totals exceeded 65k.

[Honeycombe8]

22. Darn it. I missed it. nt

[katmondoo]

3. Hillary is not on the ticket, Bernie

[honest.abe]

5. I assume at this event he will swear on a stack of socialistic bibles..

that he is morally, ethically.. spiritually, physically.. positively, absolutely.. undeniably and reliably.. a Democrat!

[Sagnak]

6. Bernie Hatred

I don't get why so many members in this forum are so anti-Bernie as a candidate. If I understand allot of the issues that people have, it has to do with the fact that he's an independent running under the Democratic parties umbrella? So, you would rather have him run as an independent, something similar to Shultz?

[honest.abe]

7. If he ran as an Independent we are all screwed except for Trump and his cronies.

Bernie has his issues but dont think he is that stupid or vindictive to pull something like that... at least I hope he is not.

[SunSeeker]

8. You're suggesting if we don't let Bernie run as a Dem, he'd run for President as an indepedent.

I can't imagine a deeper condemnation of the man.

[Apollyonus]

9. +1000 nt

[Sagnak]

10. Not suggesting that

Like other candidates that run outside of the two major political parties, Bernie could run as an independent; however, he hasn't and as far as I know will not. I'm sure he realizes that doing so would hand Drumf another four years. So ... it's not a case of threatening that he will if, as you said "we don't let Bernie run as a Dem [...] run as an independent." Goes back to my original question, regarding why the hate for Bernie on this forum.

[ehrnst]

60. Dismissing any questions about him, or criticism as "hate" isn't accurate.(nt)

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. So....if a political party refuses to allow a candidate to run for them, even though he wants to

and so he then subsequently runs as an independent, as any citizen in a free democracy can do, you would be the first to condemn that person for that? My my.

I think the poster was merely suggesting that some here should be less snarky, and more grateful that Sanders is not interested in screwing up the Democrat's chances and running against them.....even though that would be the most prolific way to raise his profile and get him air time.

[SunSeeker]

15. No one is stopping Bernie from being a Democrat. That is HIS choice.

Are you saying a political party can't insist that candidates running under their banner be actual members of the party?


And no, the most "prolific" way for him to run is as a Democrat. That is why he did it last time: https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/bernie-sanders-independent-media-coverage-220747

[ehrnst]

18. +1000.

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. Putting words in my mouth

I never said anyone was stopping Bernie from being a full time Democrat. And of course it is his choice.
I also did not say a party can't insist that "candidates running under their banner be actual members of the party".

So lets just start over. If Democrats want to make a new rule about candidates having to retain their D membership past the next primary until they retire, they can. BUT THEY ARE NOT DOING THAT. So you are arguing hypothetics. Or a straw man.

On your link, Obviously, he felt he needed the exposure, and help, running under the D banner. He earned that right from all the work he's done with them. Far more than some other D's have ever accomplished. And back then, even he had no idea how popular he would be, how much the momentum would start to swing towards him in the later part of the primaries. So this round, he has more contender cred. He is still quite popular. If you don't think he'd still draw huge crowds even if he did run as an independent this time, and the MSM would be forced to cover him, you are kidding yourself. They hardly gave him press time last time, it wouldn't take much to improve on that front.

[SunSeeker]

27. "They hardly gave him the press last time."

You have got to be kidding me.


Well, there is obviously no point to continuing this conversation.

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. You seriously think I am wrong about that?

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/03/how-media-iced-out-bernie-sanders-helped-donald-trump-win

The Tyndall Report analyzed major-network campaign coverage in 2015. In over 1,000 minutes of national broadcast television airtime devoted to all the campaigns, Donald Trump received 327 minutes, or close to one-third of all the campaign coverage. Bernie Sanders received just 20 minutes. Hillary Clinton got 121 minutes of campaign coverage, six times the amount Sanders received. “ABC World News Tonight” aired 81 minutes of reports on Donald Trump, compared with just 20 seconds for Sanders.

I'm sure you also remember this little story:

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/all-three-networks-ignored-bernie-sanders-speech-tuesday-night-promising-trump-would-be-speaking-soon_us_56e8bad1e4b0860f99daec81

All Three Networks Ignored Bernie Sanders' Speech Tuesday Night, 'Standing By For Trump'

[SunSeeker]

42. Yes. Bernie got a lot of press coverage. And unlike Hillary's, largely positive.

Bernie Sanders wins most network air time since New Hampshire

By Tom Kludt February 17, 2016: 12:18 PM ET

Bernie Sanders has done what many political experts deemed impossible: He's turned the Democratic presidential nomination into a real race.

Now he's getting something that also once felt out of reach: News coverage.

Last week, on the heels of his emphatic win in the New Hampshire primary, Sanders drew more coverage from the network evening newscasts than any other presidential campaign in either party, according to new data analysis from Andrew Tyndall.

Tyndall, the author of the Tyndall Report, monitors news content across CBS, NBC and ABC. His latest research found that the nightly news broadcasts on those three networks gave a total of 11 minutes of coverage to Sanders from February 8-12.

That was more than the amount of coverage given to Hillary Clinton (eight minutes), Donald Trump (seven minutes) and Marco Rubio (five minutes). It was also the first week in the current election cycle that network news coverage of Sanders outpaced any other presidential candidate.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/media/bernie-sanders-nightly-news-coverage/index.html

And all that air time Hillary got was all deeply negative, so hardly an advantage.

Of course, the coverage of Bernie waned as his campaign waned. It was clear, by March 1, 2016 ("Super Tuesday" ), that he had no chance to win. Not sure why you think the major networks should have dropped everything to air a Bernie Sanders speech in mid-March, 2016.

[LiberalLovinLug]

44. cherry pick much?

So you found one instance where there were four days that Sanders got 3 whole minutes more coverage. This was just after Sanders, DESPITE NEXT TO NO COVERAGE BEFORE THAT, actually won New Hampshire with 60.4% of the popular vote to Clinton's 38%. That was quite unexpected and so was huge story nationally. Which is why the media was forced to take a look at Sanders for a few days.

It doesn't negate the over all numbers. Nice try.

[SunSeeker]

45. Project much?

[Cha]

55. Haha!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Sanders has made it abundantly clear, both in his senate races and the presidential races, that...

... he wouldn’t do that.

Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?

[SunSeeker]

16. Because of the mixed signal that his refusal to join the Democratic party sends. nt

[honest.abe]

23. Has he kept his word regarding other important matters?

-- I will release my tax forms
-- I will remain a Democrat for life

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

34. Seems like a simple concept.

[LongtimeAZDem]

51. +∞

[Thekaspervote]

30. It's not that he's an independent. He is far far from the best candidate. It's not hatered either

Most do not want him to run again. Feel his time has past among other reasons

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. Apparently, yes... a recipe for disaster.

[Cha]

38. BS brings it on himself in his own words..

Bernie: ‘My Opponents’ Want Black, White, Gay, Latino or Women Candidates ‘Regardless of What They Stand For’

After the 2016 election, Sanders hit a similar theme when he told a crowd of supporters “It’s not good enough for somebody to say ‘hey I’m a Latina vote for me’ that is not good enough,” and went on to add “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.'”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211722251

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

41. I don't get it either.

[msongs]

13. publicity press releases are now news? nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

26. (Its another opportunity for Bernie Bashing)

The same ones bounce from each OP with the word Bernie in it like they are bar hopping on a Friday night.

[Thekaspervote]

29. Nobody is bashing BS- most just don't want him to run. For a variety of very good reasons

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

33. You got that right!!

[Cha]

39. Guess what?! We're allowed to state

we don't like him.. he brings it on himself in his own words.

Bernie: ‘My Opponents’ Want Black, White, Gay, Latino or Women Candidates ‘Regardless of What They Stand For’

After the 2016 election, Sanders hit a similar theme when he told a crowd of supporters “It’s not good enough for somebody to say ‘hey I’m a Latina vote for me’ that is not good enough,” and went on to add “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.'”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211722251

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. Guess what? It is NOT good enough just because of those atributes.

You actually disagree with that?

So....you are criticizing voting for someone based on what they stand for, what their vision is, what their platform consists of, as opposed to basing it on their race, gender, or sexual preference. Okay. wow.

[Cha]

50. BS is insulting People's intelligence

We're quite capable of voting for candidates of substance without his continuing reminders about their skin color, sexual orientation, and gender.

Link to tweet

[LiberalLovinLug]

52. Again, you disagree with this?

I didn't make a post 'reminding' people of that. I was reacting to yours.
You made a post that implied this kind of statement was some terrible faux pas. That Sanders was sexist, or racist, or ageist. If anyone is insulting people's intelligence.....

[Cha]

53. I think he's trying to Marginalize Women of Color..

POC and anyone else who is different.

[LiberalLovinLug]

54. We agree to disagree then

IMO, he was meaning that ones platform is the most important thing, as a voter, one should be concentrating on when making up one's mind as to who you want to represent you. Sure, it may have been a bit of human frailty as well. He sees all the publicity going to all the new fresh multicultural candidates, and wanted to remind people that he is still here, and that policy is what people should look to first. Attention envy is the worst he could be accused of.

Even if you just look at it pragmatically, logically, as a politician. Why would he purposely propose the marginalization of WoC, as someone who identifies more with Democrats? Even to the point of being mistaken for that? Now if you are saying he, as someone from another generation, cannot parse his words in contemporary PC language, and so gets in trouble for that, I would agree. But to say he meant to be as bigoted as you claim? It would be highly ignorant, politically stupid, for any more left politician to do that. And he may be many things, but he's not that stupid, even if he WAS such a bigot.

When Sanders says that, he is also assuming he is talking to an intelligent enough audience to know what he means, and that he is NOT demeaning all WoC. He is guilty of making statements that are susceptible to being misinterpreted, he's not that socially sophisticated. But sorry, based on his long history of fighting for civil rights etc....including marching in MLK marches and leading anti-racist groups in college....it just does not make logical sense even to conclude that he means that the way you think he does.

[R B Garr]

47. That's a joke that you are trying to demean good Democrats

for not wanting the same nastiness from 2016. Liberal California didn’t vote for Bernie — are they all bouncing bar flies? Your name calling is one of the reasons his type of self-serving “independence” is rejected. Next come the recycled third way, corporatists blah blah.

[BlueIdaho]

25. Yawn... nt.

[CentralMass]

35. Took a peek at CNN mobile on my phone. No obvious mention of Bernie declaring.

I can see how this is going to go.

[Blue_Tires]

36. I'm looking forward to hearing him go into nauseating detail as he explains

everything the Democratic Party has done wrong since 1964, why Obama was an utter failure as president, and why the MAGA crowd are just regular blokes and if the steel refinery could just move back to town, they'd stop being racist pieces of shit...

[R B Garr]

48. Yup! Looks like the name/calling and blame game

will be up and running real soon.

[David__77]

37. That's great news.

This could get fun! Those opposed to his policies may be displeased.

[GlennRuss]

40. Time to stop blaming bernie

Clinton lost because Trump's team capitalized on her low trust rating and her lack of a message especially towards the working class. They number crunched and with the help of a disinformation campaign, drew a fluke EC victory that will probably never happen again.

That isn't Bernies fault. Bernie could have ran independent and who knows what would have happened, but he conceded and campaigned for Clinton. The left leaning propaganda bloggers have been pounding out anti sanders (and gabbard) garbage for the past 3 years because someone is afraid of what he can achieve with name recognition.

Sanders was railroaded in the primaries and you wonder why he chooses to remain independent?

[stillcool]

57. I don't like Bernie..

how about that? I think he's a mean-spirited old man, on a late in life ego-trip. The railroaded primary, and left-whatever-bloggers that are afraid of him, have nothing to do with his need to put others down to puff himself up.

[mainer]

43. Will someone please ask him why he refuses to release his income tax returns?

I used to be an enthusiastic supporter of Bernie. But his refusal to air his returns makes me wonder what he's hiding.

[Uncle Joe]

46. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread brooklynite.

[GulfCoast66]

58. Think they will invite John Lewis.

Maybe the Sanders supporters will get to boo him again.