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Bernie Sanders Urges Supporters at DNC Convention to Back Biden and Defeat Trump: 'Price of Failure
Mediaite
By Reed RichardsonAug 17th, 2020, 11:19 pm
Senator Bernie Sanders offered a full-throated endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee—and former 2020 primary rival—Joe Biden during the first night of the Democratic National Convention. And, true to his word, he urged his progressive supporters to follow suit to help defeat President Donald Trump and to preserve the gains his left-wing supporters have made and can make in a Biden administration.
Sanders, speaking from his home state of Vermont, pulled no punches about the consequences of the 2020 election, calling it an “unprecedented moment” with overlapping public health and economic crises, in the midst of a nationwide awakening about racial injustice.
“In the midst of all of this, we have a president who is not only incapable of addressing these crises, but is leading us down the path of authoritarianism,” Sanders said. “This election is the most important in the modern history of this country. In response to the unprecedented crisis we face, we need an unprecedented response, a movement like never before of people who are prepared to stand up and fight for democracy and decency and against greed, oligarchy and bigotry.”
He then nodded at his campaign’s supporters, who briefly pushed him to the front of the 2020 primary race and who proved to be a growing force within the party.
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By Reed RichardsonAug 17th, 2020, 11:19 pm
Senator Bernie Sanders offered a full-throated endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee—and former 2020 primary rival—Joe Biden during the first night of the Democratic National Convention. And, true to his word, he urged his progressive supporters to follow suit to help defeat President Donald Trump and to preserve the gains his left-wing supporters have made and can make in a Biden administration.
Sanders, speaking from his home state of Vermont, pulled no punches about the consequences of the 2020 election, calling it an “unprecedented moment” with overlapping public health and economic crises, in the midst of a nationwide awakening about racial injustice.
“In the midst of all of this, we have a president who is not only incapable of addressing these crises, but is leading us down the path of authoritarianism,” Sanders said. “This election is the most important in the modern history of this country. In response to the unprecedented crisis we face, we need an unprecedented response, a movement like never before of people who are prepared to stand up and fight for democracy and decency and against greed, oligarchy and bigotry.”
He then nodded at his campaign’s supporters, who briefly pushed him to the front of the 2020 primary race and who proved to be a growing force within the party.
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WE have got to get out the vote! Yes indeed. 
