Bernie Sanders supporters in Texas are "pissed off." But Texas Democrats need them in November.

[RandySF]

The brewery broke out in a standing ovation and raucous applause at an election night watch party in East Austin Tuesday evening after early statewide vote returns showed Bernie Sanders with a solid lead over Joe Biden.

Amid the excitement, a Sanders campaign organizer encouraged attendees to fill their cups with beer and other libations and stock up on a menu that included pizza and burgers.

“In Travis County, Austin, we just delivered for Bernie Sanders really freakin’ big,” Austin City Council Member Greg Casar, who publicly endorsed Sanders in January, told an already brimming crowd. “The moment is upon us.”

But that moment quickly faded.

It ended up being a tough night for Sanders’ loyalists and the candidate himself, who was unable to overcome an organized push by Biden and the party’s more centrist faction to slow the Vermont senator’s early-state momentum.

Though the early voting results offered promise to the self-proclaimed democratic socialist, the one-time front-runner for the nomination, election day returns dealt a fatal blow in the state. Biden received about 34% of the Texas vote, compared to Sanders’ 30%, according to the Texas Secretary of State.

“I’m pissed off,” Marlon Saucedo, a 25-year-old documentarian, said as final results showed a neck-and-neck race between the two white-haired septuagenarians. “There’s been a lot of push against Sanders and it makes me feel very helpless. There’s always going to be a faction of the party trying to stop him.”

Alan Zaizar, 30, who wore a “Unidos Con Bernie” pin, said he won’t vote for Biden if he ends up being the party’s nominee.



https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/04/bernie-sanders-supporters-texas-joe-biden-democrat-2020/

[Cha]

1. And that is the way is goes.. you lose

some you win some.

Everyone should be voting to get the fascists out of office.. for the sake of our Country and Planet.

[vercetti2021]

2. Entitled brats

Grow up and learn this is how politics work. My guy didn't win so I'm gonna sit on my lazy pouting ass November 3rd. Trump thanks y'all ya dumbasses.

[emmaverybo]

16. This attitude is what discredits them and so by extension their leader. "Grow the f--up" is the

consensus in social media. “Brats” is right! Bernie is leading a pack of brats.

[vercetti2021]

22. The guy is older than me by a year and I know better

I was heavy for Bernie in 2016. It wasn't until his supporters shenanigans at the convention that turned me off. I learned easily that the free concerts and food along with promises of free ice cream and unicorns was nothing but fodder. Young people still have a lot to learn that such things won't just be given to you.

[Historic NY]

24. Bernie Brats....

[Gothmog]

29. These people have issues with the real world

[msongs]

3. claiming victim status. who else does that? nt

[William769]

4. Well Marlon Saucedo, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

[Moderateguy]

5. Alan Zaizar thinks Trump is a bigger amigo for Latinos then Biden I guess

[oasis]

15. Zaizar doesn't stop to think how many folks he encounters daily would

be negatively affected by Trump. And many of Trump's allies don't even want you to have a vote.

Zaizar was taken in by Bernie's promises of free stuff, but if Trump wins, he gets ZERO.

Wake up.

[TwilightZone]

6. "There's always going to be a faction of the party trying to stop him"

Uh, no, dude, you're the faction. The party is the organization that actually gets things done.

[C_U_L8R]

7. The thing about elections

They quickly prove whether you can or can't get things done. It's not good enough just to have a vision and a philosophy. You need to make lots of friends and build broad coalitions. I'm sorry these folks are disappointed. But no one took anything from them. Their candidate let them down.

[AlexSFCA]

9. and this time they had everything - money, media support

etc. No excuses. Endorsements matter but they have to be earned.

[dalton99a]

8. If they want to keep Trump in power, FUCK THEM.

[LizBeth]

10. Faction? Obviously the majority.

I have someone down in Texas. He said his Sanders people were awfully pissed at Beto.

[vercetti2021]

11. Can confirm

His live streams the past few days have blown up with Bernbros regretting they ever voted for him. These people are no better from MAGAts. Same attitudes and whining.

[SDANation]

12. If Bernie supporters stay home

Cause their guy didn’t win again, they must be some of the most privileged people on the planet, with an existential threat to our democracy looming.

[Generic Brad]

19. They stayed home for Bernie in yesterday's primaries

Why should we make an effort to win over people who don’t vote anyway?

[Moderateguy]

13. Did somebody poll the people in the brewery..

to see how many actually voted? Or did they expect the Democratic Party to hand Sanders the nomination without his supporters having to actually vote.

[frazzled]

14. Why is it that other candidates' supporters

always manage to overcome the situation (maybe after a few days of grief) when their candidate has lost a race, and then they recover. Often, they come to accept why the loss happened, that maybe their candidate just wasn’t the one. Almost never do they harbor the paranoid suspicion that a mythical cabal conspired to “stop them.”

I’ve had candidates lose altogether before, after working for many months on their campaign. Sure, it’s really hard at first, and maybe I never get quite the same level of enthusiasm for the eventual nominee. But I’ve gone ahead and supported and voted.

I find this behavior excessive and odd, especially when they expect everyone else to vote for their candidate if he wins.

I have to say, for the first time in these many years, that I would probably gag a lot, maybe even throw up a little bit in my mouth, if I had to vote for Bernie Sanders in the general. I pray that I am never put in that position. But I’d never not vote. And I’d never say my candidate was robbed. I definitely would question the sanity of humanity, as I did when Trump took the election in 2016.

[emmaverybo]

18. Good one. "Mythical cabal" lol.

[Hoyt]

17. That'll show them. Give trump another term..

[honest.abe]

20. What a clueless assinine fool.

Bernie needs to have a serious talk with his supporters to ensure this absurd dangerous attitude is not pervasive among his people. Otherwise we may get a repeat of 2016.

[NCProgressive]

21. This attitude comes straight from the top

Always the whining and victimization but never actually analyzing the electorate and adjusting the message. Never any attempt to allay the fears of various groups who are threatened by the socialist talk.

The railing against the corporations and billionaires as evil doesn't help. Billionaires invest in corporations and most people are dependent directly or indirectly on local corporations.

People are smart to know that if the company I work for is taxed 50%, it will not be able to provide me work and/or benefits and may have to relocate somewhere else.

If a wall street transaction tax is implemented, the mutual funds I invest in via 401K will have to drop the yields because they trade hundreds of times a day in various stocks to balance the portfolios. It is not the billionaires who are invested in mutual funds - it is average middle class people who will be hurt.

Bernie's campaign should think of the effect it has on followers - they lose their sense of reality and are filled with anger and resentment. No one is entitled to a victory.

[MaryMagdaline]

23. It's only been one day. The guy was bitter

Let’s reach out to him and all Bernie voters and give their platform a chance to be heard

[GulfCoast66]

25. The whole winning them over thing is ridiculous

The ones who are in the Bernie cult of personality will never vote for anyone else. The people who feel they are left of Biden but engaged liberals will vote for the party. Ignore them. Had we done that after 16 we would not be here now.

If Donald Trump as president is not enough reason to get you to vote for a Democratic candidate you are lost to the Democratic Party. And probably would not vote anyway.

Bernie is learning the lesson on relying on the youth vote. They don’t.

[Squinch]

26. Meh. And the guy who won't vote Democratic in the general? He's an imbecile. We can't

be gearing our arguments toward the imbeciles. Trump has a lock on that constituency.

[NurseJackie]

27. "There's always going to be a faction of the party trying to stop him." Oh GROW UP, Marlon! Boo hoo!

"There’s always going to be a faction of the party trying to stop him."

Oh GROW UP, Marlon! Boo hoo!

There was a "faction of the party trying to stop" Joe Biden too. Welcome to the REAL WORLD! It's a lot different than the rainbows and unicorn fantasy utopia that's being promised.

Alan Zaizar, 30, who wore a “Unidos Con Bernie” pin, said he won’t vote for Biden if he ends up being the party’s nominee.

Alan is going to do whatever he wants to do, and we would be wise to give up on a hopeless cause. Instead of spending hours stroking his ego and validating his irrational fear and hatred... instead of devoting so much time trying to bring ONE malcontent over to reality (and he probably won't vote anyway even if someone wears-him-down) that effort would be much more effectively spent gaining DOZENS of new voters.

So, just let one Alan Zaizar go... instead work to get DOZENS OF NEW VOTERS to take his place. That sounds like a good plan to me.

[beachbumbob]

28. politics is about winners and loser, in the end we ARE ALL LOSERS if trump is re-elected

THATS IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

any body who claims to be a NON-REPUBLICAN has to get that thru head

[Bengus81]

30. How fucking old are Bernie supporters---five or six years old?

Biggest bunch of crybabies now AND in 2016. Jesus...I stood behind Bloomberg for a couple of months but was always going to vote for WHOEVER could beat Trump to a pulp.

[brooklynite]

31. 40 years of politics have taught me two valuable lessons...

1) Sometimes your candidate loses

2) In the event of “1)”, suck it up and move on to the next candidate or campaign.

[TexasTowelie]

32. If that event in East Austin had been held twenty years ago,

then the crowd would have largely favored Biden. East Austin used to be primarily African American before it was gentrified with McMansions and millennials.

[dalton99a]

34. Excellent point.

But the hipsters must have their Domain and craft breweries within comfortable distance

[Happy Hoosier]

33. How DARE people vote against their candidate!!!!

Really, really bothersome.

[onetexan]

35. Asa long tine TX Democrat, all i can say is we couldn't count on BS supporters in 2016

We can't count on them now. We just need to fight harder to GOTV, as was done to put Joe on top last Tuesday. Oh the petulance & impetuosity of the young...sigh

[Jose Garcia]

36. It doesn't matter who the nominee is, we aren't going to win TX