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Point me to the seats that progressives won in red and purple districts? Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already.
by hilbertseries 6y ago
Point me to the seats that progressives won in red and purple districts?
Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already.
Biden beat Bernie when it was 1-1 in the primary, Bernie could only win with the moderate vote split. The voters picked.
- jakelazaroff 6y ago> Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already. Crucially, though, voter support for progressive policies and for Biden did not necessarily correlate — most significantly in Florida, which Biden lost and where the state Constitution was amended to raise the minimum wage.
- creato 6y agoThat seems to have hinged on south Florida. Bernie would not have done well there given his comments on Cuba and Venezuela. In fact Bernie's comments may be the reason even Biden lost there.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoThat’s the narrative, but Biden consistently distanced himself from those comments (“Listen, I beat the socialist!”) and the GOP seems to think that anyone to the left of Mitt Romney is a communist. I think Biden’s intentional lack of attention to Latinx voters did more harm than any actual Democratic position.
- whymauri 6y agoBiden's loss with hispanics was due to his campaign's explicit choice to not target hispanics. It has more to do with bad strategy than what another candidate said or did.
- noobermin 6y agoWell Biden didn't do well in FL either did he?
- claudeganon 6y agoEvery single member of the House progressive caucus in swing districts won re-election. Everyone knows that Biden isn’t going to follow through on any of the progressive parts of his party platform. We already had eight years of the the Obama bait-and-switch with him as VP. He’s expressed more interest in appointing actual Republicans to his cabinet than doing any of this.