Bernie Sanders Reveals How Donald Trump Really Won The Election
“We have to compete everywhere”. We have to show up everywhere.
US President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton embrace on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “See, you’re wrong. I’m going to make Mars a progressive planet”. Sanders said he thinks the most important thing for Democrats is to figure out what to do now.
“This isn’t the kind of person I think ought to be advising the president – this is the kind of person a president-elect should be avoiding at all costs”, said Democratic Rep. Rick Larsen. “They don’t. But for a variety of reasons, they did end up voting for [Trump]”.
Obama said that the party should focus on grass-roots organising and building up state and local parties.
“That can serve him well, as long as he has good people around him and has a clear sense of direction”. Pointing out Clinton’s popular vote stance, the 75-year-old questioned how the Democratic party could flourish in a Trump presidency. Since the Democrats have so little power, she said they have a lot of incentive to reach across the aisle.
“Let’s learn our lessons, lick our wounds, brush ourselves off”.
Trisha Christensen, a sophomore, said that while she didn’t vote in this election, “Trump’s our new president and there’s nothing we can do about it, so we should come together as a nation and support him”.
“Expected losses are hard enough”.
Forty percent (40%) of all voters expect politics in Washington to become more partisan in the next year, but just as many (39%) think it will become more cooperative.
Trump has made many bold promises throughout his 2016 presidential campaign. A self-described Democratic Socialist, Sanders ran for the Democratic nomination on a platform specifically geared toward the working class and those who feel they’ve been left behind as economic changes have disproportionately benefited the wealthy and privileged.
“No one is sorrier than me”. Nobody said democracy’s supposed to be easy. His new political organization, Our Revolution, is live-streaming the event and sending it out to Sanders supporters online. Well, the Democratic leadership of today hasn’t figured this out. Colbert asks the Vermont Senator what aspects of the Democratic Party need to be overturned in order for it to be relevant – and to be able to overpower both the hate and the hot-air-populist promises of the likes of Trump. If so, Sanders and Warren ought to head immediately to those working class districts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to point out to voters what is happening.