The supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are a loyal bunch and they do not tend to get on board with anyone who is not their socialist hero.
Many of them sat at home during the 2016 presidential election, which was not the only reason that President Donald Trump won — but it certainly did not hurt.
And now many of them are threatening to sit home again in 2020 if the Democratic Party insists on rigging its primary for former Vice President Joe Biden.
Sanders supporters believe that the senator, who is at or near the top of most polls in a very close race in Iowa, is getting shafted by the Democrats and the establishment media again. And they are not happy about it, the Washington Examiner reported.
Joe Jackelen, 35, told the Examiner that he wrote Sanders’ name in on his 2016 presidential ballot as he refused to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying that he did not like what she “stood for.”
“When I look at some of these other candidates out there, I can see them just sucking any enthusiasm from any undecided voters. So anyone who might have been for Bernie won’t vote for Biden or any of the others out there,” he said after a town hall for Sanders in Newton, Iowa.
“I think that people will sit at home because they see establishment Democrats that don’t really care. The only thing that they bring to the table is that they’re not Trump. That is not going to drive enough people out that will get a win over Trump,” Jackelen, an IT professional, said.
Another voter, 65-year-old Kay Pence, is also disillusioned by the state of the Democratic Party, who said that she did not see the “hope and change” that former President Barack Obama promised.
“A lot of people are backing away from voting,” Pence said. And her sentiment is backed up by many people on social media who are not interested in Biden as a candidate.
“If Joe ‘Crime Bill’ Biden is the nominee, I’m sitting the election out,” one Twitter user wrote.
So far there are at least five videos of Biden publicly calling for cuts to Social Security.
Number One: on the floor of the Senate in 1995. It’s in the Congressional Record: https://t.co/7ppIiIiWVcpic.twitter.com/Sl7sPJh0zo— 29 U.S.C. § 157 (@OrganizingPower) January 19, 2020
David Adams
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