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Democrats Now Openly Admit They Pushed Biden to Block Bernie (jacobin.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remembering the media hysteria after Bernie won Nevada's caucus followed by the relentless promotion and support given to Biden after he won SC with Clyburn's help. You could feel their collective sense of relief from cable tv heads that their taxes weren't going to go up transmit from the tv into your soul. They were laughing at us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Wasn't just Clyburn. Obama organized for all the candidates besides Biden and Warren to drop out ahead of SC. This was to ensure that the centerists didn't siphon votes from Biden but Warren did siphon votes from Bernie.

Also Biden didn't have the organization to do well on super tuesday because the establishment didn't like him until they decided he was their only choice for stopping Bernie, so his campaign was anemic and underfunded. They solved this by having the democratic committeemen step in as an impromptu campaign organization where Biden didn't otherwise have get out the vote operations. So they had the democratic party whipping up votes for a particular candidate in their own primary election.