Email from Symone Sanders: Why I joined Joe Biden's team as a Senior Advisor

[George II]

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XXXX, I joined Joe Biden’s campaign because we’re at a pivotal moment in our country’s history and I couldn’t sit on the sidelines. Everything we do right now is absolutely critical.

Over two years with Donald Trump in the White House has moved this country backwards and left painful scars on our nation’s soul. Families have been separated, with children lost in the system. Hate became a new standard as neo-Nazis and Klansmen were given a platform by this President.

So to give him four more years? No. That will fundamentally change the entire fabric of our nation. I don’t accept that, XXXX. Neither should you.

I’m on Team Joe because I trust him to get this right. I trust him to run a campaign that has standards and values and a commitment to win the White House. I’m on his team to make sure he does just that -- are you?

Joe Biden is a class act. He is unapologetically authentic and sincere. He has fought his entire career for working families and middle class Americans regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or disability, and knows the immense pressure our country has to be a moral compass -- and is more than up to that challenge.

He’s everything that Donald Trump isn’t -- which is why he’s already Trump’s biggest target.

So XXXX, we’re going to ask you for help a lot, but it’s only because a campaign like this takes everyone banding together to demand change. Make no mistake: This is a fight.

What do you say? Can you chip in $5? Your early support puts us in fighting shape:

https://go.joebiden.com/Donate

Talk soon,

Symone Sanders
Senior Advisor, Biden for President

[emulatorloo]

1. Great news! She is amazing

[Cha]

6. Absolutely!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Oh George,

be honest and admit that the massage was sent to XOXO.

[George II]

5. Bazinga!

[oasis]

17. Who dat?

[Beartracks]

28. The massage?

Freudian typo?



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[TexasTowelie]

30. It wasn't an accident.

I've never been afraid of humor.

[RandySF]

3. That's a huge loss for Bernie.

[George II]

4. Even though I was a Clinton supporter, every time Symone appeared on CNN or....

....MSNBC, I stopped what I was doing to listen to her. She has an amazing presence and grasp of the issues, as well as being able to articulate those issues. I was thrilled when I heard that she'd joined Biden's campaign. An excellent addition.

[Cha]

7. And, a Huge gain for Biden.. but

BS always has David Sirota, Nina Turner, and Briahna Grey.

[BeckyDem]

22. Bernie Sanders notably did not ask her to come back after working on his 2016 campaign.

https://www.apnews.com/2572f844ea074460a2f95243c433f9bc

[W_HAMILTON]

24. Did she not scorch enough earth to his liking?

[Cha]

33. Symone would not have gotten on with this bunch..

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[Cha]

32. Yeah, BS asked jill stein Voters to be

on his top staff.

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[BeckyDem]

35. The point I clarified was Sanders didn't ask her back. Why, I don't see anything reported about

the reason. But people speculate, sure.

[Cha]

40. The point I clarified is that BS was too busy hiring

Jill Stein Voters.

[BeckyDem]

43. BS?

ok

[R B Garr]

36. Symone was recruited by Warren, Harris, Gillibrand, and

Booker. Looks like she had her pick of way more than Bernie. Glad she bailed and is working for a Democrat. I imagine the faux outrage is hard to sustain.

[BeckyDem]

38. She wasn't asked back by Sanders.

[R B Garr]

39. So what. She had her pick.

[Cha]

41. BS wanted to go with Stein Voters.. that wouldn't have

been Symone.

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[R B Garr]

46. Exactly, Cha. Looks like Bernie likes the third party types to

run his messaging. Lots of anti-Establishment messaging. Symone is smart to ditch that losing strategy.

Hi Cha

[Cha]

48. Symone is into reality..

I could tell that by a tweet I saw of hers in the GE.

RB

[Gothmog]

50. The fact that sanders hired stein voters/supporters is a big negative

[Cha]

52. A Big Negative

Tell!

[sheshe2]

53. Yep.

It is to me. I will not say more.

[BeckyDem]

42. She wasn't given the option to return, that is the point.

[Cha]

44. The point is BS wanted Stein voters.

[R B Garr]

45. That isn't really the point. She was recruited by numerous Democrats,

so Bernie doesn’t get to malign her by claiming he didn’t want her. If anything, that is an asset to her. She is a Democrat. Many of Bernie’s returnees voted third party.

[Cha]

8. Mahalo George.. I should

get myself on their mailing list!

[sheshe2]

9. Well said Symone.

Thank you.

[NYMinute]

10. Well done Symone

This OP made me go and donate.

[Cha]

11. Some BS surrogates aren't happy with Symone..

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All of a sudden Symone's motives are suspect?!

[George II]

12. She explained on CNN why she didn't sign up with BS again this time around. It wasn't....

....negative, she's too classy for that, but she all but said she is disillusioned.

[Cha]

23. Mahalo for that, George.. I would

have loved to have heard what she had to say.

I didn't know much about her(not having tv) but I did see a tweet of hers in the GE that showed me.. she is very much Not deluded.

[oldsoftie]

13. See the earlier Shaun King smear attempt on Her & Biden. But Shaun King is himself a smear.

[Cha]

25. Thanks oldsoftie.. I very much

agree about SK.

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[Drunken Irishman]

14. So much hate from Bernie supporters...

I got stuck in a twitter thread where they were all mocking Biden's speaking - but what they don't know is that Biden had a stutter when he was a kid and sometimes it becomes pronounced in his speeches.

A lot of good Bernie fans out there - but a lot of hateful ones too.

[Sugarcoated]

15. Ohhhh,

that's so effed up

[George II]

19. Yes, there are lots of hateful ones out there. Governor Dan Malloy (CT) suffered from dyslexia....

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...He was the first person ever to be permitted to take his bar exam orally, since he had issues reading, and was a successful Federal prosecutor. He was also a stutterer early in life.

Throughout his entire political career, longtime mayor of Stamford and two-term Governor of Connecticut, he memorized virtually all of his speeches and did them from memory.

[Cha]

27. Wow!

[Cha]

26. I just read that very recently that

Biden had a stuttering challenge from childhood.

And now..

Joe Biden

Before his rise in politics, though, Biden dealt with stuttering throughout his childhood and into his twenties. According to a February 2015 article from CNN, the issue of stuttering came up recently during a stop at a coffee shop in Des Moines, when Biden spoke with a mother about her daughter's experience in Head Start, the government program to provide early education and nutrition services for low-income Americans.

https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/joe-biden

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[oldsoftie]

34. I had no idea he had a stuttering problem. nt

[JI7]

16. Michael Tracey is the one that claimed Maxine Waters Assaulted him

[George II]

20. Yeah, he was assaulted by an 80-year old woman (not to sound sexist or ageist!)

[Cha]

31. Worse!

Reporter Gets Roasted on Twitter for Accusing Rep. Maxine Waters of 'Shoving' Him

One reporter appeared as though he might have been the latest victim of such an attack. Michael Tracey, a journalist for The Young Turks, questioned legendary Representative Maxine Waters outside an event in Los Angeles. He initially claimed he was shoved by Waters when he tried to question her.

"Once Twitter saw that Waters simply pushed his mic out of her face, rather than "shoving" him, they let loose a barrage of parodies related to his claim, comparing the event to recurring gags you might see in a Looney Tunes cartoon."

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MOAR! https://www.complex.com/life/2017/06/maxine-waters-shoves-reporter-twitter-roast

[Cha]

29. Reporter Gets Roasted on Twitter for Accusing Rep. Maxine Waters of 'Shoving' Him

One reporter appeared as though he might have been the latest victim of such an attack. Michael Tracey, a journalist for The Young Turks, questioned legendary Representative Maxine Waters outside an event in Los Angeles. He initially claimed he was shoved by Waters when he tried to question her.

"Once Twitter saw that Waters simply pushed his mic out of her face, rather than "shoving" him, they let loose a barrage of parodies related to his claim, comparing the event to recurring gags you might see in a Looney Tunes cartoon."

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Mahalo for that, JI7!

MOAR! https://www.complex.com/life/2017/06/maxine-waters-shoves-reporter-twitter-roast

[Gothmog]

49. The sanders camp is really mad about this hire by the Biden campaign

[Cha]

51. Sour grapes..

[George II]

55. Symone Sanders, who I've always respected despite her position in 2016, is free to work for...

...whomever she wants. That was the point of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[mcar]

18. Nice

Thanks for posting.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. My first contribution of the season.

Chipped in my five!

[Gothmog]

37. I got this email also this weekend

This is a great hire by the Biden campaign

[NurseJackie]

47. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[sheshe2]

54. Kicking!

[George II]

56. Symone Sanders was on AM Joy this morning. Without being too blunt....

....when asked why she didn't go back to work with the Sanders campaign, she said Joy should ask him:

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[Gothmog]

57. It was a great interview

I love AMJOY