Can someone please tell me why the Democrats allow someone from another party

[Maraya1969]

to run on their ticket? I don't think the Republicans would allow that.

It seems to me that Sanders should have his own ticket. Especially since it seems to be fracturing the Democratic one.

[LongtimeAZDem]

1. It was a colossal mistake by the DNC chair to allow it, IMO

[usaf-vet]

2. He has always caucused with the democrats and in some cases has helped to win in close votes when...

... every vote counted.

[Cha]

8. Yet he throws this out there..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[usaf-vet]

18. Let's not forget there are other clandestine forces out there purposely disrupting this election...

.... to favor Orangeman.

Sadly this is partially facilitated by the lack of Facebook to stop foreign government bots and trolls from using their platform to clandestinely disrupt the 2020 election to reelect Trump.

Russia has their yes man aka puppet in the White House and they PLAN on keeping him there. Causing confusion and infighting in the DNC ranks is all part of their master plan. In the military, it is called SysOps. It's a weapon and it works.

Oh and at this point, it seems to be working in this case.

[madville]

3. Bernie on a 3rd party ticket this year

would have guaranteed a Trump victory. They took their chances by keeping him close and allowing him in, now it may be backfiring since no one else is likely ending their campaigns before Super Tuesday.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Last time they pilloried him for not

being a Democrat. He was a pariah out to take Hillary down.

This time (according to many) he's the Democratic Party's only hope.

What the hell happened if four short years!!?!?

[Mariana]

13. Who is "they"? nt.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. A lot of posters right here on DU.

And I do mean A LOT.

The thought of Sanders taking the nomination away from Hillary was treading on sacred ground.

[democratisphere]

5. THAT is the question.

BIG MISTAKE! BIG!

[jmg257]

6. Hey we are letting people from another party tell us who to vote for, so why not?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=552280

[dalton99a]

7. He basically hijacked the bus

and is holding everyone hostage

[jalan48]

9. Bernie would run third party and hand it to Trump. If Centrists and Progressives can't work out

their differences I fear we may be seeing a third party developing after 2020.

[Apollo Zeus]

10. I thought this was going to be about Bloomberg

nt

[aikoaiko]

11. I welcome Bernie's run. It should be the voters decision. Not made by party establishment.

[Jamastiene]

12. He has a long history of voting the same as our party.

So, he has been kind of an ally to some degree.

Bloomberg is the one I am suspicious of, to he honest. He was an outright Republican until 2007, then an Independent until 2018. Now, all of a sudden, he is a Democrat?

At least Sanders often votes with our party in Congress. So, I can kind of see letting him run to fire up the left. Maybe our leaders are trying to gauge just how much of our party would get more excited over a more liberal platform.

But, Bloomberg? I am very suspicious of Bloomberg.

[hlthe2b]

14. Trump wasn't considered a Republican either when he first started to run.

He had (supposedly) been a registered Democrat years earlier and most recently ran for President in 2000 on the REFORM party ticket.

[drray23]

15. If bernie has run 3rd party I'm not sure he would have gained traction

That would have meant no primaries, no on stage debates. He would have had not enough free media and not the kind of money Bloomberg has to compensate for it by buying ads.

[Peacetrain]

17. The same question I keep asking..

[David__77]

19. He complied with the rules.

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