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Democratic Primaries

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themaguffin

(4,536 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:58 AM Mar 2020

I know this is frustrating to Sanders supporters, but I see the support of Biden as [View all]

a not just a "safe" vote, or a "moderate" vote.

Or "just not trump" vote.

I have felt for sometime - whether it's Biden or someone else, that the priority is presidential leadership and experience.

Yes, we need to address healthcare - and yes coronavirus exposes that even more.

Yes, we need to be bold with climate change policy.

However, trump has decimated our foundations - the agencies, the courts and his many executive orders.

...our foreign relationships.

It's unprecedented.

It's not that Bernie isn't capable of that, but the campaigns note their focus.

For Biden, it's undoing trump's damage, mitigating damage, stabilizing everything and rebuilding.

Bernie is pretty much focused on his long time policy issues - again important, but many of us see the house on fire.

And yes, healthcare etc are fires of their own, but nothing can happen with our gov't in shambles.

It's not just about being anti or non trump, it's about being the opposite.

This just isn't a policy election in the traditional sense, the need is more of having a presidential leadership in the purest sense, not an election of policy vision.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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