Sanders holding a 2020 rally for himself 18 days before #Midterms is definitely peak Sanders 2016 obliviousness, so you got that right. https://t.co/FIuAyEsjgZ
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) October 20, 2018
This was the role Donald Trump was supposed to assume in December 2016 — the grifter travelling first-class on ‘campaign donations’, riling up the rubes in his base to shiv Democrats and prop up Republicans. Sanders is no Trump, showman-wise, but then the Cosplay Socialists in his particular camp are even more pathetically eager to be pleased than the MAGAts.
And of course the NYTimes is there for him!
… Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has not yet announced he is running. But for several blocks in this college town on Sunday afternoon, he was certainly marching.
From the front of a group of Iowa State College Democrats, Mr. Sanders, widely assumed to be preparing another presidential candidacy, inspired cheers and chants, his mere presence whipping up the kind of political excitement this early-voting state knows so well.
But if Democratic euphoria was the theme of the day, Mr. Sanders also sounded a cautionary note about the party’s prospects in the midterm elections on Nov. 6.
“I happen not to believe that there’s going to be this great blue wave,” he said earlier on Sunday at an event in Fort Dodge, in north central Iowa. “I happen to believe that on election night, which party controls the U.S. House will come down to a very few seats.”…
Somewhere Dean Baquet felt a thrill run up his leg, without quite knowing why.
This grifting a**hole alleges he’s supporting a midterm candidate by pointing people to his own fundraising page. https://t.co/4NJX9pAgqs
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 21, 2018