Justin Ward
2 min readFeb 22, 2020

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If you pull on any loose thread, this falls apart. I work seven days a week so I only have time to deal with the most glaring.

  1. ) As for the battleground states Clinton lost, Clinton lost them. She didn’t dedicate enough resources to campaigning in those states because she thought she had them in the bag. Coincidentally, Bernie Sanders is winning in all polls in those states she lost, and is the only candidate within the margin of error in Purple states like Texas.

2.) As for Bernie-Trump crossover voters they only accounted for about 6–12 percent of the electorate. By contrast, 24 percent of Clinton primary voters voted for McCain against Obama. A lot of those weren’t genuine Democrats in any real sense. They were registered Democrats in closed primary states who hadn’t changed affiliation though they hadn’t voted D in like four decades. Jared and Ivanka are registered Democrats, so on paper they’re “Democrats who voted for Trump.”

Anyways, let’s stick to the issue at hand and not rehash all this bullshit. Who has the best chance to beat Trump right now.

In the latest poll, he’s the only candidate beating Trump nationally by double digits. Biden is pretty much done at this point. Most of the time Warren is barely polling outside the margin of error.

It’s Sanders or Bloomberg. Who are you going with?

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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