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In reply to the discussion: Bernie may have committed a fatal error by letting Kamala go first. [View all]Liberty Belle
(9,693 posts)so they can't really attack each other on that point.
neither of the candidates are accused of being harassers, but rather of not realizing or not acting on staffers doing it.
Compared to Trump, who has personally sexually harassed, groped, and maybe even raped women, this is a non-issue for any Dem running against Trump unless they are a convicted rapist, IMHO.
That said, I do believe that Bernie's voters have more viable choices than last time. If they were concerned about, say, Hilary's corporate money from Goldman Sachs, they can choose Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris who negotiated a settlement that got a lot more money from big banks for people ripped off over mortgage frauds than the other 49 state attorney generals were willing to do.
Delegate-rich California has an early primary this year and so I'm guessing that Kamala will win her home state and be hard for anybody else to beat, unless she has a major misstep or some huge skeleton in her closet that comes out.
The one advantage of Bernie would be he might be more apt to appeal to some of those disgruntled white male out of work factory workers, miners, etc. who are less apt to support a progressive woman of color, and he seems to have done well at exciting students to get involved.
But I just can't see him pulling it off this time around, unless someone else drops out after the early primaries and he adds a popular running mate. He would do better to get behind a candidate of his choosing and campaign like hell for them and motivate what even his detractors must concede is a large base to get out and support a Democrat who can unite Dems and beat Trump.
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