About an hour ago Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign paving the way for Joe Biden as our democratic nominee. The timing of this move was a bit surprising but given the efforts by the republican party to subvert the primary election in Wisconsin, it wasn't totally unexpected. The fact now that Joe has his one and only opponent left to defeat it is a welcome move by Bernie. It sets up the contrast and compare analysis between the Joe and trump. Which for me sooner is much better than later. Bernie deserves credit for giving up his dream, albeit at this point more improbable than probable. His acquiescence will now play well within democratic circles and gives us just under 6 months to consolidate our base.
No doubt given the erratic and brutish nature of trump the consolidating will happen in a much more collegial way. But the more time available the better. And now that the nomination is squarely with Joe and the policies that our democratic party has been clamoring for will begin to meld into a cohesive plan. This is what happens in the primaries, we separate our candidates out through different paradigms until we have one candidate and then we begin to meld our platform as most efficient and encompassing as possible. With the prospect of trump for 4 more years lurking in the background our attention to our party has to be laser focused.
As far as electability goes Joe has shown throughout the primaries to be a real challenge to trump.Even as yesterday showed in Florida with Joe up on trump by 6 percentage points in a state that trump must win if he has any chance at all of staying in his appointed office. It is still a long way to go until the election but the nominating phase is basically over and now we get to attack, not each other over our preferred candidate but, the opposition which is stinking up the world in a most egregious way. Our focus must be on the coming election and making safeguards to our right to vote now that we have our candidate ready and primed to kick trump and his republican lackeys out of office.
No doubt given the erratic and brutish nature of trump the consolidating will happen in a much more collegial way. But the more time available the better. And now that the nomination is squarely with Joe and the policies that our democratic party has been clamoring for will begin to meld into a cohesive plan. This is what happens in the primaries, we separate our candidates out through different paradigms until we have one candidate and then we begin to meld our platform as most efficient and encompassing as possible. With the prospect of trump for 4 more years lurking in the background our attention to our party has to be laser focused.
As far as electability goes Joe has shown throughout the primaries to be a real challenge to trump.Even as yesterday showed in Florida with Joe up on trump by 6 percentage points in a state that trump must win if he has any chance at all of staying in his appointed office. It is still a long way to go until the election but the nominating phase is basically over and now we get to attack, not each other over our preferred candidate but, the opposition which is stinking up the world in a most egregious way. Our focus must be on the coming election and making safeguards to our right to vote now that we have our candidate ready and primed to kick trump and his republican lackeys out of office.
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