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Bernie is probably going to be the democratic nominee.
Bernie can get the left to vote for him.
Trump will grab the right and the center.
Trump wins.
... something tells me behind the scenes he was encouraging them to stay at home or vote for trump which many of them did ...
The polls say that all of the leading Dem candidates will beat trump in 2020, but this is what will happen based on 2016. In 2016 Sanders campaign was hot, but if you look at the primary votes Clinton beat Sanders. Now if Sanders had to wait for 8 years if Hillary won in 2016 and then in 2020, Sanders knew that by 2024 he would be way too old to be a viable candidate. So Hillary had to lose to Trump and though Sanders did outwardly encourage his voters to vote for Hillary, something tells me behind the scenes he was encouraging them to stay at home or vote for trump which many of them did. I believe that all of the candidates now see that if they want to be viable candidates in 2024, they need to have whoever the candidate is, probably Sanders, be beaten once again by Trump. They can then say you should have made me the candidate and I would have beaten Trump and I can beat Pence in 2024. So they, like Sanders in 2016, will give a lukewarm endorsement of the Dem Candidate and behind the scenes work to have the candidate beaten. So Trump will win again in 2020 with a poor showing in numbers by Dems.
I do not believe this for a second.
For one thing, I really just don't think Bernie would do this or even want to do this.
For another it's simply not possible to do this (a) on a large enough scale to affect the election and (b) not have this effort leak out in a major, verifiable way.
Having said this, I think Trump has 75% chance of winning simply because
- economy is good and most sheep think Trump had something to do with it
- he owns Republican party and his propaganda machine works unbelievably well on so many people no matter what he does
- he will cheat and invite Russians (or whoever) to help him rig the vote counts in few key counties in ways that noone would detect, least of all Trump's DOJ
The OP is wrong.
No grounds for the arguments exist.
I don't buy this. In 2016, the American people weren't aware of just how terrible Trump really is. Today they are.
The polls say that all of the leading Dem candidates will beat trump in 2020, but this is what will happen based on 2016. In 2016 Sanders campaign was hot, but if you look at the primary votes Clinton beat Sanders. Now if Sanders had to wait for 8 years if Hillary won in 2016 and then in 2020, Sanders knew that by 2024 he would be way too old to be a viable candidate. So Hillary had to lose to Trump and though Sanders did outwardly encourage his voters to vote for Hillary, something tells me behind the scenes he was encouraging them to stay at home or vote for trump which many of them did. I believe that all of the candidates now see that if they want to be viable candidates in 2024, they need to have whoever the candidate is, probably Sanders, be beaten once again by Trump. They can then say you should have made me the candidate and I would have beaten Trump and I can beat Pence in 2024. So they, like Sanders in 2016, will give a lukewarm endorsement of the Dem Candidate and behind the scenes work to have the candidate beaten. So Trump will win again in 2020 with a poor showing in numbers by Dems.
YOu have to remember that Sanders is not a dem, but an independent. He has to run as a Dem bedause he knows what happens to third party candidates. You may not rmember, but Sanderes reverted back to an independent right after th 2016 election. He cares nothing about the Dems or their party, he is in it like all those whose egos push them to be president, in it for himself.
You do realize Trump's approval rting just reached its highest level eveer, 47%. SO there are a lot pof people that drinkk the orange, rather than purplee, poison trump puts out there. We have become a cruel country. Just look at our humor and a lot of it is based on cruelty toward those who are different. And Trump uses cruelty like a hammer and people love it rather than be abhorted by it. Watch Trump when he is spouting his cruelty at his audiences and then watch how they laugh and cheer. So the idea that people will not vote him in for another four years with how the Dems are fighting each other, think again.
I don't buy this. In 2016, the American people weren't aware of just how terrible Trump really is. Today they are.
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