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In reply to the discussion: This is going to get a lot of blow back, but it needs to be said! [View all]DFW
(54,365 posts)Public statements about what Biden "NEEDS" to do are.
If Sanders wants to hang on to ANY relevance at all after the election, his best chance is to quietly support the Democratic ticket as it is, not as he wishes it were, because THIS time, no one will be around to listen to him at all if Trump should steal the election again. To retake the White House, our margin of victory needs to be overwhelming, as demonstrated by the last election. Winning by a "comfortable margin" has proven to not be enough. Every "lookit me" headline generated by Sanders IS drama, and is one more distraction from a goal the country cannot afford to miss this time. It is not only not helpful, it is detrimental. Until Election Day, anyway.
Sanders might ponder that he will probably get more accomplished after the election by calling in an IOU to a president-elect Biden than wagging an "I-told-you-so" finger at a runner-up Biden.