'Trump can absolutely kill him': Wall Street shrugs off Sanders

[comradebillyboy]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/wall-street-shrugs-off-bernie-sanders-114529

An avowed democratic socialist narrowly won the New Hampshire primary, propelled by promises to jack up taxes on the rich, nationalize health care and take a sledgehammer to the nation’s banking behemoths.

Wall Street has so far reacted to the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders with a massive yawn — because few in the industry think the Vermont senator has a real shot at becoming president.

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That’s because the overwhelming consensus on Wall Street these days is that should Sanders wind up as the Democratic nominee — sliding past a handful of moderates also at the top of the field — he would get demolished by President Donald Trump in the general election.

“There’s no Bernie fear at all, because I think the general view is that he is just way too far left of a candidate to beat Trump and a more moderate candidate would be much more competitive,” said Steve Massocca of Wedbush Equity Management. “If Bernie becomes the candidate and you assume Wall Street wants Trump to win again — and I think they do — then this is nothing but good news.”

[redstateblues]

1. Sadly this is true

[bluewater]

2. Wall Street you say? lol

I bet Wall Street would say that about Warren too.

I wonder why? cough *the wealth tax* cough

[AJT]

3. Having a CEO brother, it is true. My brother wouldn't vote for Hillary or Trump.

He left the presidential ballot part blank. He said he would vote for Biden or Bloomberg, no one else.

[BlueWI]

4. Polling says otherwise.

A better question is whether the DNC and potentially jilted moderates would sell out to win the GE, as would be expected if Bernie isn't the nominee.

Bernie bashing, like Hillary bashing, serves no useful purpose at the end of the day.

[Gothmog]

5. trump would destroy a weak candidate like sanders

I am very worried about down ballot races. sanders is a very weak candidate and would be easy for trump to destroy. In addition to the well written 101 page memorandum with oppo on sanders with a 1000 pages of backup from the Clinton campaign trump has his own oppo file on sanders that would destroy such a weak and divisive candidate like sanders.

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trump had a two foot thick book of oppo research on Sanders http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044

They ignored the fact that Sanders had not yet faced a real campaign against him. Clinton was in the delicate position of dealing with a large portion of voters who treated Sanders more like the Messiah than just another candidate. She was playing the long game—attacking Sanders strongly enough to win, but gently enough to avoid alienating his supporters. Given her overwhelming support from communities of color—for example, about 70 percent of African-American voters cast their ballot for her—Clinton had a firewall that would be difficult for Sanders to breach....

So what would have happened when Sanders hit a real opponent, someone who did not care about alienating the young college voters in his base? I have seen the opposition book assembled by Republicans for Sanders, and it was brutal. The Republicans would have torn him apart. And while Sanders supporters might delude themselves into believing that they could have defended him against all of this, there is a name for politicians who play defense all the time: losers....

The Republicans had at least four other damning Sanders videos (I don’t know what they showed), and the opposition research folder was almost 2-feet thick. (The section calling him a communist with connections to Castro alone would have cost him Florida.) In other words, the belief that Sanders would have walked into the White House based on polls taken before anyone really attacked him is a delusion built on a scaffolding of political ignorance.

sanders was such a weak primary candidate that the Clinton campaign did not use its oppo but trump would have fun destroying such a weak candidate like sanders

I will vote for the nominee of the party but I fear that the nomination of sanders will lead to a Speaker Kevin McCarthy

[Cha]

6. KR

[Gothmog]

7. Sanders would kill down ballot candidates

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