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4now

(1,596 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:35 AM Jun 2016

Meet Al Giordano, the Man Who Wants to Take Bernie Down

From Joy-Ann Reid.

Longtime journalist and blogger Al Giordano thinks Sanders is tearing the Democratic Party apart. In 2018, he’s running against him.

If Al Giordano challenges Bernie Sanders for his U.S. Senate seat in 2018, he will tick nearly all of the boxes Sanders checked during his surprisingly robust presidential run.

Nearly zero odds of defeating an entrenched Washington politician? Check.

Little chance of Democratic Party support? Double check! A decades-old history of lefty activism that casts him as a hippie-turned-politico? Check, check, and check again.

So why would he do it? Because in Giordano’s view, and that of his social media supporters, Bernie is losing ugly and hurting Democrats’ chances of prevailing against Donald Trump in November.

“I mean, what haven’t they touched?” Giordano asks, peering at me via a 6-by-4 inch Skype window from his home in Mexico City. “What part of the Obama coalition have they not alienated? It’s like they want to erase the coalition.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/06/meet-al-giordano-the-man-who-wants-to-take-bernie-down.html

https://twitter.com/AlGiordano

His twitter feed is very informative and entertaining with some great take-downs of the DudeBros.

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Meet Al Giordano, the Man Who Wants to Take Bernie Down (Original Post) 4now Jun 2016 OP
K & R SunSeeker Jun 2016 #1
I just saw that on the Obama Diary.. Thank you for posting 4now! Cha Jun 2016 #2
KnR sheshe2 Jun 2016 #3
"maybe it’s time for the Obama coalition to go to Vermont.” Number23 Jun 2016 #4
It's time to have a real Democrat take his place. Koinos Jun 2016 #5
Lets replace the wannabe with a real revolutionary forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #6
And Al Giordano will demand release of the tax returns. Koinos Jun 2016 #7
Yeah! Bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!! Her Sister Jun 2016 #9
there will be massive democratic support for this guy to permanently remove sanders from washington beachbum bob Jun 2016 #8

Cha

(296,868 posts)
2. I just saw that on the Obama Diary.. Thank you for posting 4now!
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:47 AM
Jun 2016
If Al Giordano challenges Bernie Sanders for his U.S. Senate seat in 2018, he will tick nearly all of the boxes Sanders checked during his surprisingly robust presidential run.
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
8. there will be massive democratic support for this guy to permanently remove sanders from washington
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:21 AM
Jun 2016

we and america have had enough of an angry old socialist...turned sore loser

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