Mac1958
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I was pretty much just assuming that Hillary was going to win, so I didn't pay much attention to what she was saying in her speeches. I do remember her spending a lot of time slamming Trump and not getting into the meat & potatoes, but those were just sound bytes from her speeches.
Anyway, here's an interesting piece from the Daily Beast:
Team Bernie: Hillary âF*cking Ignoredâ Us in Swing States
Behind-the-scenes stuff is always interesting. From the piece:
âThey fucking ignored us on all these [three] battleground states [while] we were sounding the alarm for months,â Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and former Sanders surrogate who served on the 2016 Democratic National Committee platform committee, told The Daily Beast. âWe kept saying to each other like, âWhat the fuck, why are they just blowing us off? They need these voters more than anybody.ââ
âThe math that they lost on, is the math we won on,â Konst said. âSo we wrote out a plan, and sent it to them, telling them to stop thinking youâre going to get this âObama coalition,â itâs not going to happen.â
âWe were painting them a dire picture, and I couldnât help but think they literally looked like they had no idea what was going on here,â she continued. âI remember their faces, it was like they had never fucking heard this stuff before. Itâs what we had been screaming for the past 9 months⊠Itâs like [they] forgot the basics of Politics 101.â
âA ham sandwich could beat Donald Trump,â Melissa Arab, a Michigan delegate for Sanders, told The Daily Beast during a protest outside the Democratic convention in July. âAnd Hillary cannot beat Donald Trump.â
âFor me this is not about Hillary Clinton, this is about HIllary Clintonâs staff becoming too insular, too professional where regular working-class folks did not matter to them,â Kleeb said. âShe had too many people [on her campaign] wearing Prada going into pollster meetings, not enough of us.â
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Anyway, here's an interesting piece from the Daily Beast:
Team Bernie: Hillary âF*cking Ignoredâ Us in Swing States
Behind-the-scenes stuff is always interesting. From the piece:
âThey fucking ignored us on all these [three] battleground states [while] we were sounding the alarm for months,â Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and former Sanders surrogate who served on the 2016 Democratic National Committee platform committee, told The Daily Beast. âWe kept saying to each other like, âWhat the fuck, why are they just blowing us off? They need these voters more than anybody.ââ
âThe math that they lost on, is the math we won on,â Konst said. âSo we wrote out a plan, and sent it to them, telling them to stop thinking youâre going to get this âObama coalition,â itâs not going to happen.â
âWe were painting them a dire picture, and I couldnât help but think they literally looked like they had no idea what was going on here,â she continued. âI remember their faces, it was like they had never fucking heard this stuff before. Itâs what we had been screaming for the past 9 months⊠Itâs like [they] forgot the basics of Politics 101.â
âA ham sandwich could beat Donald Trump,â Melissa Arab, a Michigan delegate for Sanders, told The Daily Beast during a protest outside the Democratic convention in July. âAnd Hillary cannot beat Donald Trump.â
âFor me this is not about Hillary Clinton, this is about HIllary Clintonâs staff becoming too insular, too professional where regular working-class folks did not matter to them,â Kleeb said. âShe had too many people [on her campaign] wearing Prada going into pollster meetings, not enough of us.â
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