Senate Democrats queasy over Sanders as nominee

[RandySF]

Senate Democrats are feeling queasy about their party’s presidential primary after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) seized frontrunner status by winning the New Hampshire primary, while former Vice President Joe Biden stumbled to a fifth-place finish.

Democratic senators have been careful not to criticize Sanders publicly, fearing that it could undermine party unity heading into the November general election, which they view as a must-win contest.

But they have serious questions about the electability of their self-described Democratic Socialist colleague, and the problems he may create down ballot for vulnerable Senate candidates.

Several of Sanders’s signature proposals, such as “Medicare for All,” free college, cancelling student debt and the sweeping Green New Deal, don’t even have support from a majority of Democratic senators.

“I think there’s a substantial element of people worried about where we’re going,” said a Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to comment on discussions with colleagues.

Asked about Sanders’s reputation as a lawmaker on the far-left of the nation’s ideological spectrum, the lawmaker said, “senators worry about that.”




https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/482867-senate-democrats-queasy-over-sanders-as-nominee

[Happy Hoosier]

1. Nominating Sanders would, IMO, be a massive mistake. NT

[still_one]

3. If that happens, I am sure the "socialist" label will go over big with the public in the general

election

[Zolorp]

4. Not to mention being on the ballot in 1980 as an elector for the SWP presidential candidate.

The Socialist Workers Party, which proudly proclaimed themselves to be Trotskyist Communists.

[Magoo48]

5. Socialist paranoia looks like a cheap suit on Democrats.

[SamKnause]

6. Take some Dramamine and get over it.