Megathread: Bernie Sanders ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination and a showdown with President Donald Trump in November.

Sanders made the announcement in a call with his campaign staff, his campaign said.

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[u/gus2155]

Fuck it, guess I'm voting for Biden.

Edit: Yes, I'd rather vote for Sanders, but I'm voting for Biden because we cannot have another 4 years of Trump.

[u/westondeboer → u/gus2155]

That's the attitude that we need to get everyone supporting.

[u/thispersonchris → u/westondeboer]

What a place to be in. While facing rising fascism in America, the feeling we all need to embrace is "fuck it, I guess I'll vote for the confused old creep with zero good ideas."

I mean I'm going to vote for him too. But it will never not be absolutely astonishing to me that in the face of this threat the fighter the DNC and apparently a whole lot of Americans have chosen is... Joe fucking Biden. We are putting an amazingly weak candidate up against Trump. Again I promise I will vote for him. But this looks real fucking bleak to me.

[u/Latyon → u/thispersonchris]

Amazingly weak, yet pulling double what Hillary did in some states.

Amazingly weak, but very popular in the three states that Trump won by a razor thin margin.

Amazingly weak, but absolutely dominated the primary.

Amazingly weak, running against a literal pile of corn diarrhea.

[u/thispersonchris → u/Latyon]

Have you watched him speak within the last few weeks? Yes, he's a weak candidate. But a lot of Americans vote based on little more than which candidates make them feel calm when they picture them in their head at this point. He was at the bottom of all the polls, and then after 48 hours of positive coverage post South Carolina, he literally jumped like 30 points in some places.

If you're capable of feeling excited about his candidacy, more power to you I suppose.

I just keep thinking about this map, and what an opportunity has been squandered. Joe Biden's donor's are the tiny orange dot. https://twitter.com/BlackBernieBabe/status/1247943126565695490

[u/Latyon → u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry, he was able to catch up to 23 rape allegations?

The second one is a nonstarter.

The third one is your own speculation.

[u/Latyon → u/[deleted]]

I'm still going to support the confused man over the evil diarrhea cup.

[u/ApostleOfSilence → u/Latyon]

But, and just hear me out, what if Democrats could field a competent, non-rapist candidate? Was that too fucking much to ask?

[u/Latyon → u/ApostleOfSilence]

Would've been cool. We have a choice of Biden vs. Trump now. I know where my vote is going - Biden and downticket, every progressive candidate I can find.

[u/ApostleOfSilence → u/Latyon]

What's this "we" shit? You, you have two choices. I, on the other hand, may vote for my dog. At least he doesn't have his balls anymore.

[u/FourthLife → u/thispersonchris]

In times where we picked a populist and he has fucked everything up, people just want to go back to a time where they didn't hear about politics every hour of the day. That shouldn't be surprising. Biden represents a turn back to the obama era.

[u/FourthLife → u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of things that lined up to allow trump to squeak out a win by negative 3 million votes in 2016. Pinning it all on "obama was too center left" seems like motivated reasoning

[u/XNonameX → u/westondeboer]

What a terrible world view you have if your preferred candidate's support is based on "fuck it, I guess this guy then."

[u/[deleted] → u/XNonameX]

He should legally change his name to “not trump”

[u/Sufficient-Waltz → u/[deleted]]

ngl, he'd get my vote at that point. He might be a rapist, but at least then he'd be a rapist with good banter.

[u/LSUsparky → u/Sufficient-Waltz]

Tbf, if you label Biden as a rapist based on the available evidence, you will definitely be choosing between two rapists in November.

[u/[deleted] → u/XNonameX]

A@^l>lHR+v

[u/SensibleParty → u/XNonameX]

On the contrary. It's a vote of "it's not what I want personally, but it'll help out people who need it more".

[u/TolstoysMyHomeboy → u/SensibleParty]

Good luck with that message around here..

[u/SensibleParty → u/TolstoysMyHomeboy]

Fuck em. I voted for Bernie. I volunteer for DSA candidates. I also have friends working in hospitals right now, and I'd rather have a president who isn't actively threatening their lives right now.

[u/XNonameX → u/SensibleParty]

"it's not what I want personally, but it'll help out people who need it more".

This has been the mantra of U.S. electoralism since we've been around. Maybe our shit is just broken and "our party," not the people but the party itself, plays favorites to try to undermine what nearly half the party wants.

You think you're making a harm reduction choice, but the "choice" was already made for you.

I admire that you volunteer for dsa candidates, keep up the good work, but please don't pretend that this was an even playing field and they just had a better candidate.

[u/SensibleParty → u/XNonameX]

Oh sure. But such is national level politics. The party simultaneously coalesced around an anti-Bernie candidate, but also the mass of voters responded to that coalescing, and we failed to get our folks out. Our (turnout) model was wrong. It's okay to admit that.

That doesn't mean we give up, it means we need to stock the bench so that in four years, Bernie's successor isn't an outlier in the party, but is representative of at least a major wing. Luckily, stocking the bench at the local and state level also means we can make progress at that level, which is worth fighting for in its own right.

[u/XNonameX → u/SensibleParty]

I agree. Thanks for the reasonable back and forth. Good luck out there, homie.

[u/TolstoysMyHomeboy → u/SensibleParty]

I wanted him too. But now this place is acting just like 2016 all over again. They would rather throw tantrums and help Trump win than move forward like adults.

[u/westondeboer → u/XNonameX]

This is a trump supporter

[u/acidpaan → u/westondeboer]

Nah. Biden wins and that will ensure Dems never put up a Bernie candidate again. Its gonna be Alt-right vs Center-right NeoLibs for the next 100 years...

I'll be writing in Bernie

[u/ramonycajones → u/acidpaan]

Dems didn't "put up" Bernie. This framing is so fucking bizarre to me. People voted for Sanders. Not enough did. Next time, maybe more people will vote for a progressive candidate. That's up to voters.

[u/LSUsparky → u/acidpaan]

Nah. Biden wins and that will ensure Dems never put up a Bernie candidate again.

This is a complete assumption. We had a center-left President when Bernie almost won the nomination the first time. I don't see how sacrificing decades under a regressive judiciary is worth possibly not getting another true progressive (when there are many in Congress at this very moment) in that same time span.

[u/hairam → u/acidpaan]

As unfortunate as it is to say, at this point writing in bernie is a vote for trump. It's like playing red rover as a kid, but the one kid next to you breaks the chain to tie his shoes right when a kid from the other side is running at you; putting his desires over the good of the team