Republican High Hewitt's plan to vote for Sanders confirms my greatest fear

[RandySF]

Republicans are going to meddle in open primaries.

[Mike Nelson]

1. Yes, and they did this...

...last time, too.

[dewsgirl]

2. Even scarier, I saw something about Ben Shapiro doing the same😳.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Cuts both ways

It's just the way the game is played.

[highplainsdem]

7. Not really. Trump has no real rivals, so they don't need to vote in their primary, and

Dems voting in their primary wouldn't stop Trump.

But they're free to meddle in our primary, in open-primary states.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. True - this time around,

but there's always another chance to nail them.

It's a two-way street.

[highplainsdem]

4. They're close enough to voting now to be fairly sure a vote for Sanders is the easiest way to stop

Biden.

Earlier they might not have been sure whether to vote for Sanders, Warren or Buttigieg.

[VarryOn]

5. Sure they will...

Admittedly, I’ve done the same when things were settled in the Dem primary.

Personally, I think primaries should be closed.

[Gothmog]

6. Obama campaign guru: Trump would love to run against Bernie

Link to tweet

Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager is warning that Democrats would struggle in a general election against Donald Trump if Bernie Sanders is the nominee.

In an interview with POLITICO, Jim Messina predicted that Trump would exploit Sanders’ stamp of socialism in battleground states needed to defeat Trump, keep control of the House and have a shot at winning the Senate.

“If I were a campaign manager for Donald Trump and I look at the field, I would very much want to run against Bernie Sanders,” Messina said. “I think the contrast is the best. He can say, ‘I’m a business guy, the economy’s good and this guy’s a socialist.’ I think that contrast for Trump is likely one that he’d be excited about in a way that he wouldn’t be as excited about Biden or potentially Mayor Pete or some of the more Midwestern moderate candidates.”....

“From a general election perspective, socialism is not going to be what Democrats are going to want to defend,” Messina added.“If you’re the Democratic nominee for the Montana Senate race, you don’t want to spend the election talking about socialism.”

Messina is the latest Democrat to raise concerns about Sanders at the top of the ticket. Endangered House Democrats are coalescing around Biden because of concerns that Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could threaten their reelection hopes, POLITICO reported Saturday.

[evertonfc]

8. meddling in open.primaries

isn't new. Hell, I live in Tenneessee and have voted for the GOP candidate I thought less likely to win in General election. What He is doing is as old as voting machines. It simply shows you who they prefer to face

[RandySF]

9. That's how McCain won Michigan in 2000

I ws part of the effort.

[turbinetree]

10. But Hewitt thinks the impeachment trial is a basically a scam.............

just like him.............................

During an appearance on Meet the Press, Hewitt argued that President Donald Trump's action in Ukraine did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212886703

[Voltaire2]

11. To date there have been zero successful attempts

to significantly affect the outcome of any remotely open presidential primary by members of the opposite party.

However there have been some moderately successful efforts to sow discord within a party by claiming that primary results were invalid because of alleged organized crossover voting.

[Cicada]

12. Who among us has not sinned?

My wife and I registered as Republicans so we could vote against Reagan twice when he ran for governor. At the voting precinct in married student housing there was a long waiting line for democratic primary ballots. We could walk past them all, no wait. Someone derisively said “here come the Republicans.” I volunteered once as a voting observer. In my hippie finest, tie die forever, the election official assumed I was the observer for the peace and freedom party. That I was there as a Republican confused her greatly.

[madville]

13. This is normal in Florida with closed primaries

Many Republicans I know are registered as Democrats so they can vote in the county level primaries (like Sheriff) where everyone runs as a Democrat, even in red counties no less.

A coworker and a family member of mine have said they are voting for Bernie in the primary just for fun and to hopefully cause some chaos.