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Democratic Primaries

democrattotheend

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1. The Wisconsin primary would be happening even if he dropped out

Reply to George II (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2020, 11:45 AM

Apr 2020

And it's actually better if he doesn't, because there's a competitive judicial race going on, and as it is the fact that Fox News viewers are more likely to disregard warnings and go out to vote hurts us. I think most Wisconsin Democrats want Bernie to be in the race for that primary to bring out potentially more people for an important state supreme court race.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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The Wisconsin primary would be happening even if he dropped out democrattotheend Apr 2020 #1

His staying in is great for turnout the rest of th primary, and keeps people engaged throughout the jorgevlorgan Apr 2020 #2

Special elections have nothing to do with primaries...his staying in only helps Trump... Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #5

we've already won several special elections that were held on the same day as the primary jorgevlorgan Apr 2020 #6

We need to defeat Trump and those elections could have been Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #10

contested primaries increase voter turnout by sparking more interests in every other election. jorgevlorgan Apr 2020 #11

He needs to go. Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #4

If Bernie drops out, we won't need to hold any more primaries at all. Sloumeau Apr 2020 #3

Yes, I would like him to drop out but... the voters in late primaries states question everything Apr 2020 #7

Republicans were just fine with all of the states that are not holding Republican primaries... Sloumeau Apr 2020 #8

The ballots have a lot of local issues and offices on them. Blue_true Apr 2020 #9

Would he have encouraged polls to go ahead la-trucker Apr 2020 #12