{"id":96141,"date":"2020-02-22T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96141"},"modified":"2020-02-22T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:31:33","slug":"democrats-worried-about-bernie-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96141","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Worried About Bernie Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96252\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-96252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ben-Garrison-attack-of-the-cry-bullies-448x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ben-Garrison-attack-of-the-cry-bullies-448x333.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ben-Garrison-attack-of-the-cry-bullies-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ben-Garrison-attack-of-the-cry-bullies-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ben-Garrison-attack-of-the-cry-bullies.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Who needs the facts when feelings &#8220;dictate&#8221; the facts? Rule of feelings, not rule of law. The Democratic presidential nomination process may potentially lead to some tears from a segment of the party.\u00a0 \u00a0(Ben Garrison\/GRRRGRAPHICS.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Democratic Party, and the candidates for their presidential nomination, appear to be worried about Bernie Sanders becoming the nominee. The numbers show his potential to gain a comfortable lead in the Democrat delegate count.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bloomberg provided a potential solution to this. He argued that many of the other candidates should drop out in order to consolidate support for the candidates that remain. He argued that this would help with the momentum for the centrist candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Buttigieg suggested that perhaps Michael Bloomberg should drop out. The candidates on the Democrat side support the convention rules with regards to who gets the nomination. Bernie Sanders argues that the candidate with the most votes should be the nominee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If [Sanders] is the nominee, we lose<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; one Democrat told Fox News earlier this month, with two other vulnerable congressional Democrats saying a Sanders nomination would almost certainly cede their states to Trump and even have the potential to hurt their down-ballot races for the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Elected officials across the country understand there will be down-ballot carnage to the Democratic Party if we elect the wrong person<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, a Biden campaign co-chair, stressed during a conference call with reporters. &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If Bernie Sanders were atop of the ticket, we would be in jeopardy of losing the House, we would not win the Senate back.<\/span><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Washington, former top Democrats are also expressing mounting concern over Sanders&#8217; momentum, while plotting alternative options.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many view Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s debate performance as falling short of average. His campaign videos show that &#8220;he could get it done&#8221;. However, not many details are provided on how exactly he could get it done. Also, he is reportedly trying to encourage meme creators to create memes benefiting his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bernie-sanders-surge-has-party-elders-increasingly-nervous\">details<\/a> in this article. Bernie Sanders has also said that Michael Bloomberg will get eaten alive by President Trump. Partial video and transcripts are on this CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-on-michael-bloomberg-debate-performance-donald-trump-60-minutes-2020-02-21\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Me Me Meme&#8217;s NPC University; Enter Bloomberg:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LookzqRd_Bg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party, and the candidates for their presidential nomination, appear to be worried about Bernie &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats Worried About Bernie Momentum\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96141\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats Worried About Bernie Momentum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96266,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96141\/revisions\/96266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}