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Vote Blue No Matter Who (The DNC Chooses)

Only Bernie Sanders is siding with democracy.

Frank Lukacovic
4 min readFeb 21, 2020

The main story from the Democratic debate in Nevada was the utter collapse of Mike Bloomberg. He was bruised and battered by all of the others on stage, especially Elizabeth Warren. He had no response for his horrid record of Stop and Frisk or for the many allegations of sexual harassment. He proved that money may be able to get you onto the debate stage but that it can’t change history. Bloomberg’s numbers will start to plummet and numerous candidates will benefit, leading to a clustered field.

There was another key moment Wednesday night. As the fiery debate was coming to a close, Chuck Todd levied a very interesting and important question to the candidates on stage. Todd remarked,

There’s a very good chance none of you are going to have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention to clench this nomination, OK?

If that happens, I want all of your opinions on this. Should the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season be the nominee, even if they are short of a majority? Senator Sanders, I’m going to let you go last here, because I know your view on this.

Here’s the official transcript with answers from each candidate:

TODD: So you want

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Written by Frank Lukacovic

M.A. in Applied Economics. I'm here to talk about economics, politics, and life. Follow me here and on Twitter @BagsFoSho

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