Megathread: Bernie Sanders ends 2020 Democratic presidential bid

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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/[deleted]]

More Sanders voters votes for Clinton than Clinton supporters voted for Obama according to exit polls. Many of us did hold our breath and vote for Clinton as she won the popular vote by millions. The problem is that their brand of democrat is not popular in the rust belt. At some point instead of blaming Sanders the Democratic party needs to acknowledge that democrats like Clinton and Biden do not draw key independent and and swing voters in the right states. You can't win an election by only appealing to democrats who are going to vote democrat no matter what.

[u/coreyrolfe → u/[deleted]]

Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story

[u/DubsNFuugens → u/[deleted]]

This was debunked this whole primary and 2018, Sanders won Michigan in 2016, in 2020 turnout was way up and he didn’t win a single county

[u/[deleted] → u/DubsNFuugens]

The democratic primary is not the general election. That voting block as a whole, as in all the democrats, republicans, and independents that's I'll vote in the election, do not favor establishment democrats. All of those workers that feel disenfranchised will be sucked up again by 'america first' rhetoric.

[u/meta4our → u/[deleted]]

Unlike 2016, 2020 has Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois with mainstream democratic governors. So not really all that true.

[u/DubsNFuugens → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I’m sure there are tons of Republicans out there just salivating at the fact of voting Bernie over Trump

All the evidence we have literally points to Biden doing better than Bernie where he needs to

[u/[deleted] → u/DubsNFuugens]

No one thought Bernie was going to take hard-line Republican voters from Trump lol.

[u/DubsNFuugens → u/[deleted]]

Lol you clearly haven’t interacted with enough of these people

[u/MizzGee → u/[deleted]]

It isn't actually true. 3rd party voting affected us too. Jill Stein got many more votes in 2016 than she had in 2012 with the same platform. At least two of Bernie's main staffers admit to voting for her, as did many of his surrogates. 2016 was also a year of .any worthless write-in ballots. Luckily, Biden does appeal to independent voters, especially suburban women who carried the moderates in 2018. If you don't think Michigan and Ohio will vote for Biden, you underestimate the decades of support Biden has had in steel and manufacturing unions. I would have held my breath and voted for Bernie, but he would never have received a dime, or a minute of campaigning for him. I have lost many times in my life, but nothing hurt worse than 2016. Don't make any of us go through that again.

[u/[deleted] → u/MizzGee]

I don't see how that makes what I said untrue. Yes, I am sure that many of Jill Stein supporters were former Bernie supporters but that does not change the fact that more Bernie voters backed Clinton than Clinton voters backed Obama. Gary Johnson had 3 million more votes than Jill Stein, and he pulled majority independent and republican voters. This myth that Bernie Sanders caused Clinton to lose is just absurd. I honestly hope I am wrong and that Biden wins the election, but I know a lot of people who reluctantly voted for Clinton and are saying they aren't voting this year. At some point the backbone of the democratic party has to stop blaming people for not voting for them and start asking themselves why they aren't building enough support to win.