Sen. Sanders rallies public support for Roe v. Wade after Kennedy retirement

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) this week urged Americans to show their support for the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, following the announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.

“We gotta rally the American people around Roe versus Wade,” the Vermont independent said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday. “Overwhelmingly, the American people support Roe versus Wade, and we have to make it clear.”

Kennedy's departure from the bench, effective July 31, has prompted many abortion-rights groups to sound the alarm over fears that President Trump’s nominee to replace Kennedy could pose serious risks to abortion access.

“I suspect the nominee will be another right-wing disaster,” Sanders said. "Our job is to mobilize the American people who overwhelmingly, among other things, do not believe that we should overturn Roe versus Wade.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/394622-sanders-calls-on-americans-to-rally-behind-roe-v-wade-after

[Squinch]

1. I lulzed.

[sheshe2]

7. I lulzed out loud.

[Gothmog]

2. This is kind of late now

Maybe he should have been more concerned during the 2016 general election cycle. The SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016. It is sad that so many sanders supporters voted for trump and were trump's margin of victory

Link to tweet

[Uncle Joe]

4. The general election?

Not to mention

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Moreover, defections from a primary to general election are common. More voters went from Hillary Clinton to John McCain in 2008 than went from Sanders to Trump in 2016; about 13 percent of Trump’s 2016 voters also voted for Barack Obama in 2012.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/24/16194086/bernie-trump-voters-study

[Gothmog]

5. LOL

Sanders was so weak in his support for Clinton and that iI found your claims to be funny. In 2008, Hillary Clinton endorsed President Obama within days after the California primary. Clinton's endorsement came before the Texas State Democratic Convention which made that event an easy and fun convention. In 2016. sanders refused to concede and endorse Clinton until he extorted concessions. The 2016 Texas convention was a zoo with Sanders delegates being jerks.

I was a delegate to the DNC convention in Philadelphia and sanders did little to control the hateful actions of his delegates. Under DNC rules, each candidate has full approval rights over their delegates. I was vetted by the Clinton campaign in order to be a delegate. Candidates need to vet their delegates and be responsible for any inappropriate conduct done by their delegates at the convention. Sanders evidently did not vet his delegates at all except to reject one Texas delegate because that delegate would not state that he hated Hillary Clinton (that poor kid was a guest of the Texas Democratic Party to the National Convention to make up for the shabby treatment by the Sanders campaign). There was a ton of poor conduct at the convention including a number of sanders delegates yelling obscenities at my child (who was my guest) and calling her the C-word for not agreeing to get me to change my vote.

There was a planned stunt by the sanders delegates at the National Convention to boo Congressman John Lewis. I was warned of this stunt 20 or 30 minutes in advance by my whip. Sanders evidently knew of this stunt and refused to stop it. Again candidates should be responsible for the bad conduct of their delegates. Sanders did nothing to control his delegates and that hurt the convention and the campaign.

Finally Sanders never released his mailing list. Clinton turned over his list to Obama and actually helped a great deal.

I am amused that you really believe that sanders did much to help stop trump from becoming POTUS.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. I will never forget or forgive Sanders' behavior at the convention

That convention was beautiful, and a contingent of Sanders supporters tried their best to disrupt it. They reached the bottom when they booed John Lewis. Thankfully, convention organizers & local delegations were extremely organized and outshouted and out-signed them.

Meanwhile Sanders himself slumped grouchily in his seat and let them boo John Lewis and other convention speakers.

[Gothmog]

12. I will not forget or forgive sanders delegates calling my daughter the c-word

These idiots were suppose to represent the best of the sanders campaign

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Even worse than the booing

Calling a child that is just about as low as they can go.

[Gothmog]

8. I am not the only one who felt that Sanders failed to really campaign for Clinton

Sanders was horrible and weak in his pretend efforts to support Clinton https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/05/bernie-sanders-is-finally-campaigning-for-hillary-clinton-but-does-she-even-need-him/?utm_term=.59f575bef833

He reluctantly and belatedly endorsed her. And the two speeches he has given since for her have basically been papered-over versions of his own stump speech. In short, since he ended his own campaign, Bernie Sanders hasn't done much publicly to help get Hillary Clinton elected president.

[AlexSFCA]

3. he is diluting his economy messaging

[George II]

6. Where has he been?

January 2017 http://la.adl.org/event/rally-to-save-roe/

February 2018 https://www.tripsavvy.com/march-for-life-dc-1040127

And many others.

[Devil Child]

9. K&R!

Always great seeing folks here twisting anything of Sanders into a negative. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

[Uncle Joe]

10. + all that exists