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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders records video announcing 2020 campaign [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And, amazingly, increasingly control of the house appeared possible. For sure, the numbers would have been close, either way, giving us much more power in the house, and control of both chambers was possible.
It was ALL lost. 3/4 of his primary voters were solid Democrats who always absolutely intended to vote Democrat. They are us.
But his rest, that other quarter who believed what he, plus the Republicans and Russia in overlapping themes, told them: 12% voted for TRUMP. 2% refused to vote because they believed what he'd told them about Democrats. The rest voted third party -- how many because they believed his "reform"-style stories that Democrats were corrupt and just a variation on Republicans and how many who just couldn't do Trump, I don't know. But we were watching him and his remaining following, and we know he didn't try a fraction of what he could have.