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130. Joe Biden-"I'm not Bernie Sanders"

Joe beat Sanders and won easily by running as a mainstream Democrat. I was a day one contributor to Joe and got to meet him in person at two fundraisers before the primaries started. Joe was clear that he was running as a mainstream Democrat and was not going to move to the left. At one fundraiser, Joe made the point that neither Sanders nor Warren had any foreign policy experience and discussed how world leaders viewed TFG, Pence and to a lesser degree Sanders.

The platform was at best a compromise and was aspirational at best. I note that most of Sanders/Warren platform concepts did not make it into this document including no mention of Medicare for All. As noted in the above articles, Biden did not move to the left on most issues.

I was a Clinton delegate to the 2016 convention, and we were geared up for floor fights on the platform, credentials and rules reports. I had a friend on the platform committee, and she told me that we compromised to avoid a floor fight and gave Sanders most of what he wanted that made sense. I note that Clinton and Sanders met a couple of times before Sanders endorsed Clinton https://rollcall.com/2016/06/14/sanders-clinton-meet-to-discuss-platform/

A week after Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination, she sat down Tuesday with her chief primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, in Washington for about two hours to discuss the party platform.

Billed as a key step toward uniting the party, the meeting between the rival candidates began after Clinton had clinched a lopsided victory in the District of Columbia primary Tuesday night, the final contest of the 2016 presidential primary season.

“I simply want to get a sense of what kind of platform she will be supporting,” Sanders had said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, “whether she will be vigorous in standing up for working families in the middle class, moving aggressively in climate change, health care for all, making public colleges and universities tuition-free.”

I note that Sanders did not formally endorse Hillary Clinton until after a number of other meetings by members of each campaign. Again, we were geared up for floor fights on the first day of the convention.
The Clinton campaign had a whipping infrastructure in place, and we rehearsed what would happen if there were floor votes. According to my whip. these floor fights were avoided by Clinton giving Sanders what he wanted. At the event the night before the start of the convention, I ran into a Texas candidate who was on the rules committee, and she told me that they worked until 2 in the morning on issues and again the Clinton campaign gave Sanders what he wanted.

This was not a fun convention. I was at the Texas delegation breakfast where we had a mini riot when Sanders delegates demanded that we condemn Hillary Clinton and vote for Sanders.

I was told that I was a bad Jew for not supporting Sanders and called some other names. My youngest child was my guest, and she was confronted by some Sanders delegates and was cursed at and called the c-word for not agreeing to get me to change my vote. My whip kept me informed and I knew 20 to 30 minutes in advance of planned stunts like booing John Lewis, Elijah Cummings and Jim Clyburn.

I hope that you understand that platforms are meaningless. Heck, TFG and the GOP did not have a platform in 2020.

I found this to be amusing

I also found this to be amusing---'I'm Not Joe Biden': Bernie Sanders Snaps Back At President https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/01/23/im-not-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-snaps-back-at-president/?sh=3b33a5eb9e30

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hit back at President Joe Biden Sunday morning, saying the two have “strong differences,” four days after Biden similarly distanced himself from the democratic socialist politician.

Joe is a mainstream Democrat and ran as a mainstream Democrat during the primary.

Hakeem Jeffries is trying to keep Justice Democrats from taking over and destroying the party. I am not a fan of the Justice Democrats and I am glad that Hakeem is working to protect the party