They aren’t. They are voting for Joe by huge margins.

Bernie is nothing more than a spoiler at this point. Again.

Ffs.

I am not a Sanders supporter-never have been; but I think Biden has indeed been pro big corporations, such as DuPont (a disgusting and poisonous corporate giant), as well as colleges snd universities which have grown fat on the student business, and the big bank industry which destroyed our economy for a decade.

The fact that we have credit card rates of up to 30% interest and people who cannot bankrupt out of ruinous student debt and even have their social security checks reduced for student loan payments is a Biden responsibility.

Sanders got shot down because of the electability issue of a Democratic Socialist and how the would make us a Democratic Socialist party - a mill stone round the necks of all our candidates for office. We were in danger of losing the House we had just regained after losing it a decade ago when Biden was Vice President.

Joseph Biden is far from an ideal candidate but for the above reason is preferable to Sanders.

Many of us no longer have a margin in our lives and we are soon to face the full force of pandemics for which we are unprepared and climate change which can devolve into a living horror.

I am not willing to stick my head in the sand and go all rah rah for any presidential candidate. Biden however will receive a lot of support as president; Sanders might continue to be at war with the party even if he should get elected-which I doubt he can, and would surround himself with the authoritarian people he has drawn to his campaigns.

think...clearly with this negative post, you are anti-Biden.

A clear minority of Democratic primary voters, in every contest held to date, are picking their candidate primarily based on issues. An overwhelming majority are picking their candidate based on who they think is more likely able to defeat Trump in the Fall. The exit polls however continually show, for example, that clear majorities of Democrats voting in the primaries favor Medicare For All and other policies favored by Sanders, such as measures to address income inequality, college loan debts, the environment etc.

matter as it won't pass in Congress.

To say that Sanders voters are going with the issues, while Biden voters are going with "electability" is both an oversimplification and a grand example of the kind of arrogance and condescension that the Sanders campaign has been dishing out for months.

This is especially bothersome when you consider that Sanders lost--by enormous margins--the African American vote which is the bedrock core of the Democratic Party.

Could it be that Democratic voters looked at Sanders and saw the same old same old campaign speech from four years ago, saw him choosing Green Party ideologues who helped put the current monster in the White House as his closest staff and advisors, saw him refusing to be an actual Democrat while taking advantage of the Party's infrastructure, saw someone who called for the first African American president to be opposed in the 2012 primaries, saw someone pushing legislation that advanced the interests of gun manufacturers and the NRA (while refusing to deal with gun violence overall, especially in minority communities) and said: pass?

No no, it has to be "electability" versus "issues."

Because only a fool would oppose "the revolution" on the issues.

I am not dividing people into Biden or Sanders camps and/or ascribing different levels of sophistication to anyone. I have simply been following exit polls released from all of the primaries, such as these:

A government plan for all instead of private insurance,
Support/Oppose:
VT: 73%/23%
ME: 69%/28%
TX: 63%/33%
MN: 62%/35%
CO: 57%/36%
CA: 57%/36%
NC: 55%/41%
OK: 53%/43%
TN: 52%/44%
AL: 51%/43%
VA: 52%/45%
MA: 50%/45%

@CNN
Exit Polls
https://cnn.com/election/2020/

Jill Stein was the spoiler last time. Bernie only ran in the primary last time and he conceded the primary and endorsed Hillary at the convention too.

but someone who weakens the chances of booting Trump out of office in November.

that he cannot count on the sustainability of his agenda or his supporters.

This isn't about BS anymore. He lost. The party doesn't owe him a participation prize any more than they owe one to all the other candidates who have dropped out.

The voters have chosen to go for realistic and attainable goals rather than talking about things that will never pass.

BS needs to stop dividing the party at this time when we need unity more than at any other time. I would say he needs to take a page from Pete and Amy and support the party, but that'll never happen. So at the very least he needs to stop acting like any of this is about him anymore.

It isn't.

and the 50 million that have insurance they cannot afford to use

if you as a biden supporter are saying you don't care about that, you are doing him no favors


biden says his public option will help with the not insured and underinsured, now is the time for him to expand and explain that plan to win Bernie supporters over

when people are literally dying of perfectly manageable medical problems and you accuse us of "dividing the party" it is insulting

I don't care about a candidate who tosses out words but never comes up with a practical way of making a dent in those numbers.

I do care about the fact that the guy who DOES have a plan to do something about those numbers has won the primary, and someone is trying to derail his GE campaign.

Why don't YOU care about that?

The Voters in all these States Voted FOR Joe Biden not Sanders.

Get it?

for many of them. Hillary adopted a lot of Sanders' policy prescriptions, but it didn't do her any good with his hardcore followers.

Exactly! Hillary gave concessions and they didn't appreciate It one bit.

Same page, sop!

There is 0% chance of this Congress passing a Medicare for all bill. There is a zero chance of Biden vetoing a bill that will never exist. This is a dumb talking point.

"Senator Sanders, how can you honestly look Americans in the eye and say any of your plans will be passed by Congress?"

that you want? If you don't get these first, then it's kind of moot, isn't it? Let's first concentrate on winning and kicking the orange anus out of office and then get down to work.

because the longer Bernie is around, running his attack ads on Joe, the more center and center right votes Joe needs to attract for the election in November.

Bernie people may not "vote blue no matter who"... especially if Bernie keeps having his surrogates write negative things about Joe.

We need to get behind Joe now.

Especially with the global pandemic, we need one voice to contrast with Trump. Not two. We need to show the "alternative President you can have next January if you get out and vote in November"

He can not demand anything. Hillary made massive concessions and the convention was still a shit show. This time, it's a massive blow out, a landslide. If Bernie wants concessions. he needs to politely ask, not demand.

If that is a shit show then we need more of them.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/how-big-is-hillary-clintons-convention-bounce-226545

his movement, those beatings are just going to make him and his movement seem a whole lot less relevant than they really are. Bernie's not doing anybody any favors by hanging around in this race - including himself and his supports. He's not building leverage, he's throwing it away.

play the elder statesman role while retaining some perception of relevance. Or he can wait for the bloodbath that is coming and that will crush any perception of his relevance.

That he is choosing the latter is so irrational!

30% coalition. With no plan B

All speculative too. When is M4A going to pass Congress? Not in this term.

Bernie would have won if the voters were for this.

sanders not dropping out may help Biden. sanders keeps on losing primaries by large margins nnly strenghten's Joe's position https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/no-surprise-bernie-sanders-is-still-all-about-himself-never-party/

Donald Trump...he needs to get out. He has won what three states? And that is all he is likely to win.

I particularly oppose the way that Sanders and his camp oppose a public option and expanded Medicaid.

Joe's doing just fine (actually a LOT more than just fine) right where he is. Just stay put and appeal to the broad swath of Americans who are somewhere in the middle and win the election in a landslide. Then after he gets in, tack left and start implementing liberal policies that help the vast majority of people.

Americans prefer having "socialism" spoon-fed to them...they don't like having their mouths forcibly held open and having it poured down their throats.

Besides, another 10 months of coronavirus and market meltdowns and they'll probably be begging for it.

Stay the course, Joe.

Bernie now thinks M4A will pass in Congress. OMFG He is truly...….' Are you really going to veto a Medicare for All bill if it is passed in Congress'.' 'Not me, shush.

if they want 4 more years of trump or not. If they do, screw them. We can do without you and you have no input in the future period.

He's staying on to feed his ego.

It's not just a label to dirty.

Definitely classes in the principles and practices of liberal democracy would be desirable as well.