How Russia Is Trying To Boost Bernie Sanders' Campaign

[Galraedia]

Jessica Brandt, head of research and policy for the Alliance for Securing Democracy, has monitored Russian government messaging to examine their narratives about Sanders.

"Those [narratives] tend to be that the corporate media and the Democratic establishment, the DNC and elites, are rigging the system against him and endeavoring to deny him a win," Brandt said.

The Mueller investigation found that the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked "troll farm" based in St. Petersburg, had tried to boost Sanders over then-candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

"One of the things I think Russia looks at when they see Bernie is that he's someone who's talking about a rigged system. He's talking about the elite aren't with you," said Mieke Eoyang, vice president of the National Security Program at Third Way, a center-left think tank that opposes a Sanders candidacy.

source: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812186614/how-russia-is-trying-to-boost-bernie-sanders-campaign

[DonaldsRump]

1. K&R [phone]

[SidDithers]

2. Judging by the state of the primary, they're not doing a very good job...nt

Sid

[Cha]

3. Just what I was thinking.. they should have

started early to stop a runaway Biden Train. Hopefully!!!

[kysrsoze]

6. Maybe they just want us to THINK that's what they're doing.😄

[napi21]

4. O questioned Rissoan interference when I read about the power of "The Bernie Bros". I'm not

saying they don't exist, but I think they're getting help on twitter & facebook to make them appear bigger & stronger than they are.

[groundloop]

5. Probably true...... anything to drive a wedge between Democrats

[captain queeg]

7. Maybe the Bernie Bros are just an effort to drag political discourse down to Trumps level

Anyone with a functioning brain can see Joe is a decent guy and Trump is a creep. Maybe the effort is just trying to provoke Joe to sink to that level

[Gothmog]

8. Russia and trump want to run against a weak candidate like sanders

[betsuni]

9. K&R

[NurseJackie]

10. I think it harmed his campaign when the public learned that BERNIE KNEW for over a month...

I think it harmed his campaign when the public learned that BERNIE KNEW for over a month that the Russians were helping him... and he chose to say nothing. Not a good look.

[oasis]

11. Russia and Trump will fail this time around. It's all over tonight.

[NCProgressive]

12. It is amazing that Bernie campaign's talking points

match the Russian propaganda to a T. Not an ironclad evidence of a collusion but it makes me go hmmmmmmm.

[Blue_Tires]

13. I CANNOT STRESS THIS STRONGLY ENOUGH

Russia started and has been heavily circulating those reprehensible smears about Biden's mental health -- *ANY, AND I MEAN ANY* so-called liberal/leftist you see peddling that bullshit on social media or DU, don't even bother arguing or trying to correct them. Just put their asses on block/mute/ignore and move on. If they have a TV show or blog or youtube channel or a website, stop being a part of their traffic numbers...

A tidal wave of agitprop/deza (and the useful idiots who kept it in the news cycle) had us chasing our own tails in 2016 and we cannot allow that to happen again.