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Pelosi Admits Bernie Sanders Won’t Hurt The Party By Leading The Ticket
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4:38Now PlayingNancy Pelosi sought to ease some fears of establishment Democrats this week by saying that she is comfortable with Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket if he wins the primaries. The talk recently among establishment folks is that Bernie will hurt down-ballot races, though there is currently no shred of data that supports that argument. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Yesterday while she was leaving a closed door meeting in the House of Representatives, reporters went up to Nancy Pelosi and asked her if she would be comfortable with Bernie Sanders being at the top of the Democratic ticket and there was a good reason that reporters would want to ask this question. For the last week or so, we have seen lots of attacks coming from the, I guess establishment side, saying that Bernie Sanders is categorically going to destroy down ballot races if we put him on the top of the ticket. Now, bear in mind, there is absolutely no data whatsoever to support this claim, but we have seen it from all kinds of blue check marks on Twitter who described themselves as political consultants, MSNBC contributors, yada, yada, yada. I advised this person, but oops, they lost. But trust me, I'm totally right about this one. Anyway, so reporters went up to Pelosi and said, hey, okay, obviously this is going around or are you concerned about this? Are you comfortable with Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket? And Nancy Pelosi gave you a one word answer. Yes.
Are you comfortable with Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket? And Nancy Pelosi said, yes. So reporters then later in the day found Chuck Schumer and they said, hey, Chuck, same question. You okay with this? And Chuck Schumer also said, yeah. In fact, Chuck actually went a little further than just the one word response. He said, yeah, I'm comfortable with any of these people. We've got great people running. I think all of them will beat Donald Trump. I haven't supported anybody. I'm not going to until we know who the nominee is, but I'm cool with all of them bye. Okay, so is that going to kinda calm the fears of all these establishment types when you have the two leaders of the Democratic party, the House and the Senate who come out and say, yeah, I'm fine with this guys, and they should be fine with it. Because as I mentioned, there's no data out there that says that Bernie Sanders is going to hurt down ballot races. I mean, think about Hillary Clinton for a second, okay. Hillary Clinton was the establishment choice. All the superdelegates already backed her back in 2015, okay.
So she had the establishment support that, that's not, you know, arguable it was there. They wanted her to be the nominee. So then 2016 rolls around, obviously Hillary Clinton loses, but she wins the popular vote. So does that mean the Democrats swept and took back the House and the Senate? No, they didn't. And they actually could have taken back the Senate because there were more Republicans up for reelection in 2016 then there were Democrats. And you know how many of those Senate seats the Democrats won with Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket? Two, they won two. Certainly didn't take the majority back. So Hillary Clinton didn't really help out there. You know how many house seats the Democrats picked up in 2016 with Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket? Six, just six. Six out of over 400 seats, folks, and Hillary Clinton sitting at the top of that tip, ticket, even with the popular vote only picked up six. So can we stop with that?
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