Why bernie needs to drop out! AOC on Fox News saying he didn't win due to voter suppression

[Thekaspervote]

His campaign busy spreading misinformation! A dem... going on fux news to pitch a campaign’s cause!!

Voting every where is way up...and they are voting for Biden.. not sanders!

Stop!

Link to tweet

?s=21

[LakeArenal]

1. That's my last shred of respect for AOC.

[PatSeg]

9. Same here

Now she has just weakened Democrats' criticism of republicans who really DO suppress the vote. If every time someone loses, they yell "voter suppression", it will just sound like whiny poor losers. Also she is basically saying that the DNC is no better than republicans.

Fox News is going to love this and will probably go back to it again and again. Clearly she is not ready for prime time. I hope she gets primaried before she does too much damage.

[Thekaspervote]

13. She is being primaried! Michelle Caruso-Cabrera

[IluvPitties]

14. Good! AOC is a Millennial and female version of Bernie.

[PatSeg]

18. That's good

I have really had enough of her and I can't imagine her constituents can be terribly happy either.

[Demsrule86]

29. She get a check from me...maybe monthly support.

[brush]

53. Yep. Voter suppression of young voters? Please! Everbody else voted ok.

She needs to stop primarying Dem incumbents, stop buying Sanders' youth "pied piper" routine, and definitely stop appearing on FOX.

Disappointing.

[sheshe2]

2. I did not listen.

I can't bring myself to listen to her or Fox news. Why do "Progressives" go on Fox?"

What voter suppression is she talking about? Black voter suppression?

[John Fante]

8. I often get the sensation that they hate "centrist Democrats"

more than they do right-wingers. It's so bizarre.

[George II]

16. Drop the "centrist", they simply seem to hate Democrats.

[PatSeg]

21. Exactly

The people they call "moderate" or "centrist" are Democrats who just happened to not agree with Bernie Sanders. I'm just as liberal as I've ever been, probably more. I resent being called a moderate.

[sheshe2]

27. ++++++++++++++++1000!

Finally listened. She fibbed in her tweet about her appearance.

[PatSeg]

36. Okay I listened too

She has a vocal fry thing going and I find it hard to listen to her for very long.

[PatSeg]

37. What did she tweet about her appearance?

[John Fante]

28. Exactly, that's what I meant to convey. Anyone who opposes

Bernie is "the establishment" to these types. They attacked Warren brutally, and she's as liberal as they come.

[PatSeg]

34. I know

I hate being defined just because I don't agree with someone. Bernie and his campaign are so divisive. I used to really like him, but he's burned a lot of bridges.

[sop]

25. "What voter suppression is she talking about?" I was wondering the same thing.

Total turnout was way up in several states on Super Tuesday, black and latino vote was up and lines were around the block at most voting sites. Maybe the youth vote was somehow suppressed by the evil DNC?

[fleabiscuit]

3. Hmm... who knew?

I would have thought that both candidates were fishing out of the same voter pools.

[evertonfc]

4. Her ideas are toxic

in most of America. I ignore her

[Callado119]

5. Shame on her...

...there really is an “alt-left”...

[Scurrilous]

6. She willingly goes on GOP TV to wrongfully attribute a pervasive ongoing GOP tactic to Democrats...

...claiming false victimhood for whoever it is that's still voting for Sanders, while the actual victims are mostly the supporters of the guy she lies and says is behind it, doing this because he is whipping her pal's flabby ass and she can't stand it. What an enormous …...

[chillfactor]

7. I have no more use for AOC...

a true traitor to the Democratic Party!

[frazzled]

10. Trump-level perfidy

and bull

[LizBeth]

11. This is why so many of us do not trust Sanders to go on. Humiliating defeat is the only way.

Blow out in Florida.

[Indykatie]

12. AOC Gets Too Much Credit As Being The Smart One On the Far Left

She is no smarter or less destructive than any of the others aligned with Bernie. Shame on her for giving rise to this bull shit excuse for Bernie getting his butt kick. And to do it on Fox makes it an unforgettable offense in my eyes.

[George II]

15. I can't believe she said that, there were very few complaints about unusual voting issues....

....in Michigan.

Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton first ran, in Connecticut (a TRUE blue state) I waited on line for more than an hour. There's no way there was voter suppression. It's just the way voting is - it's a COMMITMENT!

BTW, back in 2008 in Harlem (NYC) there were lines up to eight hours to vote. That too wasn't "voter suppression", it was a tidal wave of voting.

Give me a freaking break, and STOP the excuses!

[DAMANgoldberg]

19. Plenty to drag AOC for...

but not here. Unless she was lying about this tweet.

Link to tweet

[George II]

22. She goes on FOX and beats on Democrats, then contritely and quietly tweets a lukewarm....

...contraction. Few rightwingers that saw her bash the Democrats on Fox read her "explanation" on Twitter.

She shouldn't have said it in the first place, but I suspect it was intentional.

[oasis]

44. That flip-flop won't cut it when revealed during AOC's run for re-election.

[DURHAM D]

17. Just another performance artist. nt

[njhoneybadger]

20. She is on Faux news saying Dems are involved in voter suppression

I'm done with her

[awesomerwb1]

23. I support her primary challenger

if there is one.

[Thekaspervote]

30. Her primary challenger is Michelle Caruso- Cabrera

[democrattotheend]

41. Who was a libertarian/Republican before she decided to run for Congress

Don't trust her at all.

[awesomerwb1]

52. With good reason.

Bummer.

[sheshe2]

24. Okay...

I finally listened. She claims a seven hour wait. There was one in Texas.

However, Ann Arbor. THIRTY MINUTES TO AN HOUR AND THAT WAS TO REGISTER.

Long voter waits in Ann Arbor, East Lansing on eve of Michigan primary

College students flooding city clerk’s offices in Ann Arbor and East Lansing for absentee ballots and same-day registration were creating wait times of 30 minutes to an hour on the eve of Michigan's presidential primary election.

A day after Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rallied more than 10,000 students on the University of Michigan campus and urged them to take their friends to the polls, clerk's offices in university cities experienced increased traffic. People were waiting in line for up to an hour Monday to request absentee ballots or register for the election, said Lisa Wondrash, a spokeswoman for the city of Ann Arbor.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/09/long-waits-ann-arbor-east-lansing-absentee-voting-registration/5002272002/

She fibbed.

[Cha]

38. Thanks, she, for listening.. Couldn't the students have prepared

better? Don't blame it on Michigan, AOC.. not smart.

[sheshe2]

40. Fox News.

[Cha]

43. Who goes on fox news for Dem complaining?!

oh yeah, gabbard.

[sheshe2]

46. Yep.

Her too.

[msongs]

42. all these late comers coulda registered and/or previously lol nt

[Demsrule86]

26. I am done with AOC. I don't live in her district but will send money to anyone

who mounts a primary.

[RandySF]

31. She needs to be defeated in June.

[Beakybird]

32. I respected and admired AOC - until now. Now, it's revulsion.

[LenaBaby61]

33. My friend always said ....

That she was a snake, and that she never trusted her one bit 🐍

I never gave AOC much thought: Good or Bad.

My friend appears to have been correct.

[Cha]

35. Sadly she's not.. just what many predicted..

scorch earth for the GE.. if that's what she's really saying.

[democrattotheend]

39. Except...that's not what she said

She was specifically asked about young voter turnout in Ann Arbor, where Bernie had a huge rally. She responded that lines there were 3 hours long. Which by the way is an issue I suggest Michigan's Democratic governor tries to address before November, since college-aged voters heavily favored Hillary over Trump in 2016.

She never said the only reason Bernie is losing is voter suppression. In fact, she even said we need to do more to turn young voters out. What she said about voter suppression was in response to a specific question about turnout in Ann Arbor, where students did have to wait 3 hours to vote on Tuesday.

[TwilightZone]

45. No one is asserting that she said it was "only" voter supression.

She also later backed off of the claim.

[oasis]

49. Please see sheshe2 post #24.

AOC's flimsy claim doesn't pass the smell test.

[Piratedog]

47. She has proven herself to be a twit.

[Light63]

48. All respect and admiration for AOC GONE

She is a talented and natural politician. She is quick in her verbal responses. For her to go on Fox News and bashed Democrats is very traitorous to our party. I am no longer on her side. A traitor!

[Evergreen Emerald]

50. I trusted you AOC!

And now I see that you are a BIG FAT LIAR?! We have had enough lies with the Republicans.

Although I disagreed with your choice for President, I trusted you. And You LIED. You LIED about why Sanders lost. And you lied about your lie about why Sanders lost. On FOX news.

WTF OAC?

I don't trust you anymore.

[Galraedia]

51. "Those KIDS were waiting three hours" AOC

O_o Just how old were those kids? I'm pretty sure most of Bernie's base isn't old enough to vote.

[doc03]

54. Every time she opens her mouth she makes Democrats look bad. The Republicans

all give her as an example of why they hate Democrats.

[betsuni]

55. Ah, so Biden won because his voters are probably elites who are not progressives and can

stand in line for hours, but Bernie voters are true progressive working class who cannot stand in line and thus denied a vote. A diabolical conspiracy by the DNC.

That's my interpretation of what she said.

[GulfCoast66]

56. I've kept my typing fingers closed from the AOC thing since 18.

With a few exceptions early on when I got scotched.

But following her mentor she runs to Fox because their oxygen comes from threatening our party.

Here’s the deal. Most of America and most Democrats have distain for Bernie and AOC. They do not represent the average Democratic voter and hardly any voters in America. And their die hard supporters who threaten to not to vote for the Democratic candidate will never vote for them. Ever.
And never have.

It’s pretty obvious Biden is going to stay magnanimous but pretty much ignore them. His speech tonight tonight was a Presidential speech, not a primary speech.

So let them nip at his heels as he rolls Bernie in the Primary. We did not lose the Midwest on 16 because Bernie’s kids did not vote. They never do. We lost the Midwest because we lost blue collar white dudes who hated Hillary. Biden won them decisively in the Michigan primary.

Bring seen as the anti-socialist will help Biden more than anything he could do on his own.

Then we might have a chance to enact some Social Democrat policies into effect. Which Americans actually like. Because this DU member understands the difference between a Democratic Socialist and a Social Democrat. They are as different as apples and oranges.

[Awsi Dooger]

57. At least she said voter suppression and not voter fraud

If she emphasized voter fraud then Fox News would rejoice and they'd play the clip constantly...only the segment they need...and refer to it without context.

I'm not much of a fan of hers, other than congressional questioning where she is very sharp. This seems like stupid phrasing but not something Fox can use. Their audience already delights in mocking her as representative of everything young and dangerous in the Democratic party.