Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders supporters in Texas are "pissed off." But Texas Democrats need them in November.
The brewery broke out in a standing ovation and raucous applause at an election night watch party in East Austin Tuesday evening after early statewide vote returns showed Bernie Sanders with a solid lead over Joe Biden.
Amid the excitement, a Sanders campaign organizer encouraged attendees to fill their cups with beer and other libations and stock up on a menu that included pizza and burgers.
In Travis County, Austin, we just delivered for Bernie Sanders really freakin big, Austin City Council Member Greg Casar, who publicly endorsed Sanders in January, told an already brimming crowd. The moment is upon us.
But that moment quickly faded.
It ended up being a tough night for Sanders loyalists and the candidate himself, who was unable to overcome an organized push by Biden and the partys more centrist faction to slow the Vermont senators early-state momentum.
Though the early voting results offered promise to the self-proclaimed democratic socialist, the one-time front-runner for the nomination, election day returns dealt a fatal blow in the state. Biden received about 34% of the Texas vote, compared to Sanders 30%, according to the Texas Secretary of State.
Im pissed off, Marlon Saucedo, a 25-year-old documentarian, said as final results showed a neck-and-neck race between the two white-haired septuagenarians. Theres been a lot of push against Sanders and it makes me feel very helpless. Theres always going to be a faction of the party trying to stop him.
Alan Zaizar, 30, who wore a Unidos Con Bernie pin, said he wont vote for Biden if he ends up being the partys nominee.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/04/bernie-sanders-supporters-texas-joe-biden-democrat-2020/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,907 posts)some you win some.
Everyone should be voting to get the fascists out of office.. for the sake of our Country and Planet.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)Grow up and learn this is how politics work. My guy didn't win so I'm gonna sit on my lazy pouting ass November 3rd. Trump thanks y'all ya dumbasses.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)consensus in social media. Brats is right! Bernie is leading a pack of brats.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)I was heavy for Bernie in 2016. It wasn't until his supporters shenanigans at the convention that turned me off. I learned easily that the free concerts and food along with promises of free ice cream and unicorns was nothing but fodder. Young people still have a lot to learn that such things won't just be given to you.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
msongs
(67,193 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
William769
(55,124 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Moderateguy
(945 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
oasis
(49,151 posts)be negatively affected by Trump. And many of Trump's allies don't even want you to have a vote.
Zaizar was taken in by Bernie's promises of free stuff, but if Trump wins, he gets ZERO.
Wake up.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Uh, no, dude, you're the faction. The party is the organization that actually gets things done.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
C_U_L8R
(44,892 posts)They quickly prove whether you can or can't get things done. It's not good enough just to have a vision and a philosophy. You need to make lots of friends and build broad coalitions. I'm sorry these folks are disappointed. But no one took anything from them. Their candidate let them down.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)etc. No excuses. Endorsements matter but they have to be earned.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)I have someone down in Texas. He said his Sanders people were awfully pissed at Beto.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)His live streams the past few days have blown up with Bernbros regretting they ever voted for him. These people are no better from MAGAts. Same attitudes and whining.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SDANation
(419 posts)Cause their guy didnt win again, they must be some of the most privileged people on the planet, with an existential threat to our democracy looming.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Generic Brad
(14,270 posts)Why should we make an effort to win over people who dont vote anyway?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Moderateguy
(945 posts)to see how many actually voted? Or did they expect the Democratic Party to hand Sanders the nomination without his supporters having to actually vote.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
frazzled
(18,402 posts)always manage to overcome the situation (maybe after a few days of grief) when their candidate has lost a race, and then they recover. Often, they come to accept why the loss happened, that maybe their candidate just wasnt the one. Almost never do they harbor the paranoid suspicion that a mythical cabal conspired to stop them.
Ive had candidates lose altogether before, after working for many months on their campaign. Sure, its really hard at first, and maybe I never get quite the same level of enthusiasm for the eventual nominee. But Ive gone ahead and supported and voted.
I find this behavior excessive and odd, especially when they expect everyone else to vote for their candidate if he wins.
I have to say, for the first time in these many years, that I would probably gag a lot, maybe even throw up a little bit in my mouth, if I had to vote for Bernie Sanders in the general. I pray that I am never put in that position. But Id never not vote. And Id never say my candidate was robbed. I definitely would question the sanity of humanity, as I did when Trump took the election in 2016.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Bernie needs to have a serious talk with his supporters to ensure this absurd dangerous attitude is not pervasive among his people. Otherwise we may get a repeat of 2016.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NCProgressive
(1,315 posts)Always the whining and victimization but never actually analyzing the electorate and adjusting the message. Never any attempt to allay the fears of various groups who are threatened by the socialist talk.
The railing against the corporations and billionaires as evil doesn't help. Billionaires invest in corporations and most people are dependent directly or indirectly on local corporations.
People are smart to know that if the company I work for is taxed 50%, it will not be able to provide me work and/or benefits and may have to relocate somewhere else.
If a wall street transaction tax is implemented, the mutual funds I invest in via 401K will have to drop the yields because they trade hundreds of times a day in various stocks to balance the portfolios. It is not the billionaires who are invested in mutual funds - it is average middle class people who will be hurt.
Bernie's campaign should think of the effect it has on followers - they lose their sense of reality and are filled with anger and resentment. No one is entitled to a victory.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)Lets reach out to him and all Bernie voters and give their platform a chance to be heard
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The ones who are in the Bernie cult of personality will never vote for anyone else. The people who feel they are left of Biden but engaged liberals will vote for the party. Ignore them. Had we done that after 16 we would not be here now.
If Donald Trump as president is not enough reason to get you to vote for a Democratic candidate you are lost to the Democratic Party. And probably would not vote anyway.
Bernie is learning the lesson on relying on the youth vote. They dont.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Squinch
(50,773 posts)be gearing our arguments toward the imbeciles. Trump has a lock on that constituency.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)There was a "faction of the party trying to stop" Joe Biden too. Welcome to the REAL WORLD! It's a lot different than the rainbows and unicorn fantasy utopia that's being promised.
So, just let one Alan Zaizar go... instead work to get DOZENS OF NEW VOTERS to take his place. That sounds like a good plan to me.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)THATS IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
any body who claims to be a NON-REPUBLICAN has to get that thru head
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Biggest bunch of crybabies now AND in 2016. Jesus...I stood behind Bloomberg for a couple of months but was always going to vote for WHOEVER could beat Trump to a pulp.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)1) Sometimes your candidate loses
2) In the event of 1), suck it up and move on to the next candidate or campaign.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TexasTowelie
(111,300 posts)then the crowd would have largely favored Biden. East Austin used to be primarily African American before it was gentrified with McMansions and millennials.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)But the hipsters must have their Domain and craft breweries within comfortable distance
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Happy Hoosier
(7,077 posts)Really, really bothersome.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
onetexan
(12,994 posts)We can't count on them now. We just need to fight harder to GOTV, as was done to put Joe on top last Tuesday. Oh the petulance & impetuosity of the young...sigh
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Jose Garcia
(2,552 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden