Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Ball on Bernie's strategy going forward

Yes, the establishment with all its tricks had a good night. But in the end after the CA results are all in it's likely that Bernie will be about tied with Biden in the delegate count. So Krystal holds out hope that such a result is actually a good sign that we the people supporting Bernie combated the mighty forces of the establishment and the best they could pull off was a draw. However we and Bernie need to dramatically shift the election narrative in the way the establishment did.

How? Voters in every State support Medicare For All. Voters still trust Bernie the most on healthcare and climate change. The problem is that voters bought the establishment's fearful narrative that Bernie can't be Dump; like Dump they use fear to cow us. So we need to counter that with the facts and framing on Biden's flaws and that he will likely lose to Dump. We need to hammer Biden's losing policy positions like bad trade deals that cost Americans jobs and lowered our standard of living. We need to emphasize Biden's desire to cut social security. And Biden's commitment to wars. And Biden's commitment to Wall Street and corporations. Bernie is already returning to the narrative and it has been effective to date.

Kyrstal though thinks we need more. We need to pick up more votes with suburban voters. She thinks it would be best to offer Warren the VP slot on the ticket, as she's been popular with this white, college-educated demo. That would certainly and dramatically shift the narrative. The problem is though, would Liz drop out of the race and accept it?

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