my bernie fan friends, please, if you vote tomorrow,

[mopinko]

please give me you ear/eyes for just one minute.
please carefully weigh AALLLLL the pluses and minuses, and please consider voting for warren.

take the biggest lesson for us right now from 2016- do not nominate someone w high negatives.
do a head to head. a clear headed head to head.
i see zero warren minuses, and sooo many for bernie.
she is going to implement identical policies better.
she has a good grip on the intersection of race and class, where bernie sees none. that is why she has higher support among black women.

and then there is his health, WHICH.HE.IS.HIDING.

the one reason i didnt want hillary to run is that i did not want to drag her baggage from door to door. i didnt believe a bit of it. but if you are explaining, you are losing. period.

please do not make me explain the difference between democratic socialism and joseph stalin. dont make me explain why bernie keeps using the word free. dont make me explain the diff between m4a and the aca.

no good leader send an army into the deciding battle of an epic war w holes in their shoes, rocks in the rucksacks, and too few spavined, mangy, rented mules.

please give this foot soldier a banner i can carry w pride.

and if you care about what comes after, lets not burden ourselves w the hard work of revolution when our democracy has all the tools it needs to right this ship.

warren has what it takes to heal our wounds, and move us forward.

[Rorey]

1. I have little hope you'll convince many Bernie supporters

But you've made valid points. Good post.

[mopinko]

13. my only hope is that this gets through to the peeps w the holes in their shoes.

[Meadowoak]

2. Biden has many more negatives than Bernie!

[mopinko]

3. whadaboutism. i didnt say anything about biden.

and btw, most of those points apply to biden as well. he is scraping from primary to primary. warren has been on the ground for a year already.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Can we say she has no path to the nomination? Is that ok?

[Meadowoak]

19. At this point, it's a race between Bernie and Biden.

[katmondoo]

4. Hard to believe

[brush]

10. Sanders consistently loses the black vote badly, therefore he can't win.

No Dem (or pretend Dem) can win without AA support.

Time to stop and think about that if you don't want 4 more years of trump.

[johnthewoodworker]

16. So in the general election, if Bernie is the candidate, black voters will stay home, vote for the

cat grabber, or vote for some unspecified third party?

[brush]

18. I'm saying he can't win the nomination. And btw, Klobuchar just quit and will endorse Joe.

[brush]

30. Do you know there are may states left after tomorrow, many in the South were...

Biden is strong. Sanders will not get a majority before the convention.

Then all bets are off.

[brush]

33. You don't know what you're talking about. A majority is 1991 delegates.

He won't have anything close to that after tomorrow.

[brush]

36. That's a majority. Do you get it now? He has 60 delegates, a long way from that number.

[brush]

38. That would be called a plurality.

1991 is still and will remain the majority to win.

[Meadowoak]

20. 90% of the black vote will go to the nominee whether that be Biden or Bernie.

[brush]

24. He's got to win the nomination first. See post 18.

The so-called moderates are lining up behind Biden.

[Peacetrain]

5. I will never understand how Democrats would choose Bernie over Elizabeth...

She has actually accomplished things with the banking bills.. She has been a card carrying Democrat since 1996 and has stood with us through the storms of politics..

[sweetloukillbot]

6. I've got a pretty good idea why... nt

[PatSeg]

8. She is a much more appealing candidate

Really smart and very inspiring. Her stump speeches are outstanding.

[mopinko]

9. she would be a win on so many levels that none of the b's could touch.

i esp dont get it why they dont think avenging hillary's loss is a fight worth having.
i wish she would endorse her. i really do.

[johnthewoodworker]

17. The reason I choose her is because she is a thoughtful, shrewd, quick witted, and warm

human being.

[Meadowoak]

21. I love Elizabeth Warren too, but she has no path to the nomination. So I'm with Bernie and Warren

Will make a great VP.

[Moderateguy]

23. That's why she's losing progressives to Bernie

They want a revolution-you know the kind with pitchforks and burning everything to the ground. They don't want a progressive candidate who will work within the system to get things done

[Rorey]

25. You nailed it NT

[Vivienne235729]

29. +10000 EXACTLY!!

[grantcart]

39. +1

[DanTex]

11. The problem is, Warren hasn't caught on with voters, for whatever reason.

For progressives, either Warren or Sanders would be great. But it's going to come down to delegates. Particularly with the superdelegates already talking about trying to override the popular vote, as the NYT reported.

If Warren were ahead right now, I'd happily support her. But realistically, she is not going to get the most pledged delegates. Bernie is the only progressive that can do that. And the more pledged delegates Bernie gets, the more difficult it becomes for the superdelegates to deny him the nomination.

In the first few contests, where the different candidates were jockeying for position, either Bernie or Warren would make sense for progressives. But at this point, it's shifted into a new phase, the delegate race starts full-on, and so it's time for progressives to unite behind Bernie, simply because he's the only one with a real chance to win the nomination.

[Meadowoak]

22. +1

[Sloumeau]

12. If your choice is between Bernie and Elizabeth,

definitely go with Senator Elizabeth Warren. She's about as left as Bernie and twice as electable. Just by being a woman, she can take advantage of the 20 point gender gap that Democrats can get with women over Republicans. If you like the left lane, Senator Warren is the only real choice.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Bernie has the highest favorability ratings. Way higher than Warren.

https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/

[redstateblues]

28. Wow was that poll wrong. Bernie lost the black vote in a landslide

Biden had 61% Bernie had 17%

[honest.abe]

35. No kidding. Not even close to be correct.

Polls are worthless now anyway after whats been happening the past 3 days.

[Doremus]

15. Thank you for the respectful, thoughtful post. If any type of post can change minds, it's this one.

[lapfog_1]

26. I, personally, have no problems with Warren being the nominee

and the whole "Pocahontas" crap is now "old story" so I'm not sure what Trumpanzees will say about her. Their usual ploy is just to continue on so I think it's not effective. (note that they still to this day do the "lock her up" chant... )

[grantcart]

41. Wise advice

If Sanders supporters really cared about party unity, passing progressive policies or taking the Senate they would vote For Warren. They don't. They are devoted to a visitor.