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elocs

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6. Is the #1 goal of the 2020 to defeat Trump,
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 09:40 AM
Jul 2019

or is it a race to see how far to the left the party can be pushed because we think that anybody we nominate along with any promises they make will beat Trump?

I don't call proposing practical and workable ideas based in reality as being spineless.
It makes for a good soundbite thought.

But when these candidates are all done running for the nomination within the Democratic Party the winner will need to run against Trump in the general election in the entire nation. Too many on the left, particularly the far left that so often likes to disparage and put down those in the party less liberal than they are, like to look in the mirror and believe they see the nation reflected back at them and there is just no way they could lose.
There is.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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