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13374506, so bernie was treating aoc like a clingy sidechick?
Posted by Reeq, Sun Mar-22-20 12:57 PM
they got a full behind the scenes look at the implosion of the sanders campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html

some quick snippets:

https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1241382396706148353
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Some interesting Warren nuggets in this fantastic Sanders deep-dive from @alexburnsNYT @jmartNYT.

“As Ms. Warren relentlessly courted Ms. Ocasio-Cortez last fall, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s advisers had to prod Mr. Sanders’s aides into having him call her...”
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https://twitter.com/merici/status/1241350380904157191
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“So confident was Mr. Sanders that he would vanquish Mr. Biden that he spent valuable days trying to force two other candidates out of the race by campaigning in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the home states of Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren. He won neither.”
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shit reads like the sanders campaign was run by the exact type of college progressive club types that his supporters have become more and more stereotyped as.

its pretty clear now that a lot of the behavior the 'bros' get criticized for isnt just emblematic of supporters. its built into the candidate too.

aoc was basically only as good as her usefulness. and bernie got so cocky after 3 early states (2 of them caucuses) and resulting positive news coverage and opinion polls (leading biden in black voters is still a classic lol)...that he really thought he could go put away 2 opponents in their home states instead of shoring up support among key constituencies (which apparently he didnt really have the support of lol).