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In reply to the discussion: Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats [View all]Celerity
(43,083 posts)Welder unequivocally ran on a Medicare-for-all, 15 dollar an hour living wage, a refusal to take corporate money, and free public university tuition platform.
Davids never stated clear support for any of the 4. She also flip-flopped on whether she supported abolishing ICE, first saying she did, then after winning the primary, running an advert specifically saying she did not.
Whether you support those stances or not, they did provide differentiation. I m sure the same thing took place, to more or lesser degrees, in the other 2 races. I know Clay is in favour of Medicare for all. Whitmer is in favour of universal coverage, but wants to keep private, for profit insurance companies involved.
My whole point is that it is natural to have policy disagreements, and natural for a group that stands for certain things to back candidates that do the same. I would never call it a stunt or say it is a bad thing. We live in a laboratory of democracy. I welcome cogent, tough, hard, enlightening debate.