On Debate Night, Sanders’ Online Army Is Ready for Battle
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Culver says the goal of Debate With Bernie is to make it easier for followers to spread Sanders’ messages to their own networks. “We saw how well he did during the Republican debates, and thought this would be a great way to amplify his message,” Culver says.
Meanwhile, over on the ever-growing Sanders for President subreddit, which now has 115,000 subscribers, Aidan King and his fellow moderators will be hosting a mega-thread devoted to the debate. Other members will transcribe all the questions and answers and translate them into Spanish. King has also been working in the lead-up to the debate to encourage followers to sign up for one of 4,000 debate watch parties happening across the country. The goal is to transform people from “armchair activists” into actual activists. “That’s been our biggest mission the last two weeks,” says King, who helped start the Sanders subreddit, “to get people to back up their words and say, ‘I’ll be here on this day and I’ll volunteer and put in hours on the ground and hours at the desk.'”
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