Justin Ward
2 min readOct 11, 2019

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The reason why Sanders supporters are focusing (not fixating) on Warren is that anyone who has eyes (and sense) in their head can see that Biden won’t be able to sustain his lead in the long run and this is ultimately going to come down to a Sanders-Warren two-way race.

Biden may have a solid lead now in the polls, but after his showing in the last debate, there’s no way he’s going to hold onto it. He’s talking nonsense non-stop. Candidates who are polling in the single digits (Buttigieg) are out-fundraising him. Sanders and Warren each doubled his fundraising numbers in the last quarter. He’s the Jeb Bush of the Democratic Party this election.

Since this will turn into a contest between Sanders and Warren before the year’s end most likely, it makes perfect sense to focus on her. Both candidates have similar platforms, so it’s important now to differentiate between the two and make the case for why voters should choose Sanders over Warren, and that’s exactly what commenters like Nathan J. Robinson, Sam Seder and the writers at Jacobin are doing.

What you’re doing is concern trolling. “If Bernie and his supporters really care about their revolution they need to stop doing politics and making the case for why he is the candidate to carry out said revolution.”

Just stop it.

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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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