Bernie Sanders turns to Fox viewers in bid for voters

[Uncle Joe]

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According to the massive Cooperative Congressional Election Study, about 12 percent of Sanders primary voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the 2016 general election. These Sanders voters appear to have given Trump the margin of victory in the three states that handed Trump the White House. The Fox News town hall was held in Bethlehem, Pa., in a state where some 16 percent of Sanders supporters — about 117,100 people — voted for Trump; Trump won Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes. It was a similar story in Wisconsin, where about 9 percent of Sanders supporters — about 51,317 people — voted for Trump; Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes. And in Michigan, about 8 percent of Sanders voters — or about 47,915 people — cast their general election ballots for Trump; Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes.

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Can Sanders separate his former supporters from Trump? Going on Fox News and making his pitch that Trump has failed them is a smart way to do it. Indeed, Sanders not only participated in the Fox town hall, he published an op-ed on the Fox News website, in which he declared, “When Donald Trump ran for president he made a lot of promises to working families. He told them that he would protect their interests while standing up to the Establishment. Unfortunately, he did not tell the truth.”

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It’s a pivotal question. Sanders told her that Trump is not responsible for that progress — it began under President Obama — and that most of the benefits of the global economic recovery and Trump’s tax cuts have gone to the very wealthy, while Republicans refuse to give working families access to health care and a “livable wage.” He is telling his former voters, in essence, Trump has failed you, and I can do better; Trump claims to be an outsider, but I am the real deal.

Will it work? Will these former Sanders voters, having helped put Trump in the White House, stick with the president, or will they switch back to their first love, Bernie Sanders? The answer may well determine who wins the Democratic nomination — and the presidency in 2020.


https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/04/18/bernie-sanders-turns-to-fox-viewers-in-bid-for-voters/

[ChiTownDenny]

1. Considering his recent and historical bashing of Democrats

that's a constituency he appeals to.

[billpolonsky]

2. I would like to see all candidates go on Fox

Get into the belly of the beast and discuss their ideas.

Get in there and get all that dirty Fox News juice all over you.

Preaching to the choir is not the way to reach out to voters.

Show the "other half", the "deplorables" what the Democratic Party is made of.

[murielm99]

3. Bernie was preaching to the choir

because nearly everyone in his Fox audience was a BS supporter. Don't expect Fox to play fair. They won't do that for the other Democrats, only for the disruptor.

[BlueFlorida]

4. 99% of the studio audience was packed with Bernie supporters

and nationwide, "watch parties" were organized by the Bernie campaign

FOX even gave a full page ad to direct Bernie supporters to tune in.

FOX got its legitimacy, ratings and ad revenue.

Bernie didn't convert a single FOX regular. If you want to see, go and see the comments at the bottom of the Fox News story about the Bernie town hall. Nearly 100% of the comments were full of contempt and derision.