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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sanders defends Trump voters: I don't think they're racists, sexists or homophobes [View all]
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326820-sanders-defends-trump-voters-i-dont-think-theyre-racistsVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Friday defended voters of President Trump, saying that the election was Democrats' to lose and that the party needs to better represent the working-class voters who supported Trump and other GOP lawmakers
"Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don't agree, because I've been there.
Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders said while speaking at an Our Revolution rally in Boston with fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Sanders went on to say that a "fundamental restructuring of the Democratic party" was needed to win future elections and that problems with party's current setup is why many were quick to support Trump in the election, not because of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail.
"We need a Democratic Party that is not a party of the liberal elite but of the working class of this country, we need a party that is a grassroots party, where candidates are talking to working people not spending their time raising money for the wealthy and the powerful," Sanders said. "And when we do that, when we transform the Democratic Party, we transform America."
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Sanders defends Trump voters: I don't think they're racists, sexists or homophobes [View all]
Celerity
Dec 2019
OP
In my view the majority of Trump supporters fit at least one of those bills
BannonsLiver
Dec 2019
#19
For a guy who rarely (if ever) supports his own allegations with data or evidence...
LanternWaste
Dec 2019
#94
No you are not alone. The MAIN THREAD that binds them together, rump voters
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2019
#29
Anyone who still supports Trump has no basis to object to being called racist, sexist homophobes
StarfishSaver
Dec 2019
#18
2nd that. Spend some time in the party Bernie. More than a few months every 4 yrs.
IADEMO2004
Dec 2019
#10
The fact is not all of the people who voted for Trump are racists, sexists or homophobes.
Autumn
Dec 2019
#24
Ya, pretty evident. Too bad denying that facts only works to enable the behavior.
Lexee
Dec 2019
#96
"..it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election"
myohmy2
Dec 2019
#42
No, but when he just throws out the blanket statement that they're not racist he invites criticism.
BannonsLiver
Dec 2019
#92
Ignoring Comey, foreign interference, and the LIEs propagated by some so called
still_one
Dec 2019
#57
What about the people who voted for him because he promised to keep the Mexicans out?
BannonsLiver
Dec 2019
#47
How is the Democratic Party a party of the liberal elite and not the working class?
betsuni
Dec 2019
#89
This from last year: "I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not
betsuni
Dec 2019
#61
If he truly believes what he said in these quotes... I can't vote for anyone with judgment that poor
RockRaven
Dec 2019
#62
There are a small % who could possibly switch to the right Democrat so I really don't have a problem
Quixote1818
Dec 2019
#75
I don't believe that the 1% to 2% of Trump voters that Bernie would attract
TexasTowelie
Dec 2019
#83