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Bernie’s town hall on Fox was awesome just to watch the Fox News guys scramble to hide the fact Bernie was winning over the Fox crowd.

Just an aside, these town halls were pretty much a bunch of bernie fans. I mean he was applauded overwhelmingly when he said the Boston Massacre terrorists should be given the right to vote. It is not like there were a bunch of conservatives getting won over by Bernie’s wisdom. Yes, it was a Fox News Broadcast, but the audience was a bunch of Bernie bros/sisters. It was a Bernie crowd. They were applauding his leftist rhetoric because the audience loved his leftist rhetoric. All the town halls have the fans of the candidate themselves with them. The many candidates have their fans with them at these town halls. They all bash Trump and those in the crowd cheer, because they are all fans of the candidates themselves, be it Democrats or Republican. Trump had his fans with him last week. Bernie is going to have another town hall this week on Fox sometime, it will again be a Bernie crowd cheering him even if it will be on Fox.

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This town hall was in a county overwhelmingly won by Donald Trump and contained liberals and conservatives. Bret Baier and FoxNews were surprised when Baier asked if the crowd would support Medicare for All and the crowd all cheered. You could tell…it also prompted an immediate Twitter response from Trump asking why the crowd was “so smiley”.

There are also more Sanders’ supporters that watch Fox News than supposed “lib networks” like CNN and MSNBC.

This is not surprising. Trump supporters and Sanders’ supporters are the same phenotype.

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Who are they?

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Gabbard has two delegates from the primaries thus far. Those primaries include the states of California and Texas. How can anyone think that a candidate with 2 delegates at this stage is a viable candidate? That is the reason why she will be excluded from the debate.

If Gabbard is so good why don’t the Republicans invite her to participate in their primaries’ debates?

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Let’s take your post on its face value. There is a candidate, T Gabbard, who has singularly failed to attract sufficient support from Democrat supporters to win more than 2 delegates from a possible 1,397 thus far. A candidate need 1,991 to win the nomination. Gabbard needs to win another 1,989 delegates to get to 1,991 delegates. In order to that she will probably need to win around 80% of the rest of the delegates. In what alternate universe is that likely because it isn’t remotely possible in this universe?

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I agree, she is getting 1 percent of the vote if that, there is no reason, and the Democratic Party has the right to change the rules if necessary to exclude someone who has no path to the nomination and she hasn’t shown to be in any polling in Michigan for example or anywhere else with anything more than 1 percent, when I was looking at the results of most of the states, it would say <1 %. So I don’t see the big problem here. I don’t understand the Republican flirtation with Tulsi anyway.

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There is only one rational explanation for the Gabbard fixation by Republicans. I am sure you will be able to work out what it is.

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Had to change the rules to exclude her.

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I understand the flirtation.

It’s fake.

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Tulsi Gabbard is an interesting candidate. Honestly, had she gained traction she would have made for an interesting choice. Unfortunately, we have Trump in the White House so now is not the time to take risks but instead choose a candidate who has the best shot of beating Trump.

Once she started to wane RT, Russian Bots and Trolls and Sputnik all started to do the same thing they did with Jill Stein. Prop her up, extol her virtues, make it seem that she is being mistreated. The reason? They really want a third party candidate who can siphon a few million votes off of the Democratic candidate.

Just like a lot of you guys are hoping to do.

She may fall for it, she may not. I hope she doesn’t. Nobody wants to be the factor that keeps Trump in the White House for another 4 years.

But seeing all of this “poor Tulsi” stuff in this thread? Give me a break.

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Sneaky, I get you’re just stirring the pot and that is all well and fine, but the fact of the matter is there hasn’t been a single debate that has had the same criteria for inclusion. As the field winnows down, the bar that is set becomes ever higher.

Which is what took Booker down, he was broke and didn’t have good enough poll numbers to merit inclusion.

With Bloomberg, he was polling stronger than a lot of other included candidates but didn’t have a lot of donations because he wasn’t soliciting them, he was self funded. So they considered that and included him later on. It was the best thing for us, because Warren had his ass for lunch. Fortunately, he is going to sponsor whoever wins the nomination and support down ballot candidates as well, which is pretty awesome. Not bad for just letting him join a few debates.

Tulsi has neither polling nor money. She has 1 or 2 delegates, thus no path to win the nomination. Bloomberg actually did better than her, so did Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar.

The only reason folks are wanting her in is so she can attack Biden. And if she can’t get on the debate? Then just cry foul and try and trick her into running third party so she can siphon a few votes off.

I went to Google and just typed Tulsi RT. First thing that popped up is a webpage devoted to her. She is one of their “trends” pages.

So is every other Democratic candidate who is out of the race, but strangely Biden and Bernie do not have a trend page. When you search their name on site it is all negative articles, but every Tulsi article paints her as an aggrieved figure being locked out of our democratic process.

Troll bots have also been highly active in supporting her, in similar fashion to what they did with Stein.

I get why folks want her around, if she takes a few million votes away from Biden, that is perhaps the difference. Factor in voter suppression, the electoral college, a nice dose of gerrymandering and a good bit of “That Democrat is crazy/sick/commie” and perhaps folks can get another 4 years of Trump.

Now the GOP could just do it the old fashioned way, getting more votes in a straight up contest, but we know how that would turn out. So get used to the next few months seeing stories about caravans, dead people voting, voter fraud and all of the usual nonsense.

I still hope someday the GOP may just wish to win an election fairly, but I don’t see that happening in the short term or long term.

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Glad we could agree.

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At the very least, they are homophobic.

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For all the Gabbard supporters who have participated in this thread, can you provide me with the number of delegates that Gabbard has won in this week’s primaries?

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Tulsi Gabbard goes on Tucker Carlson to make an appeal to all the liberals who watch his show I guess to complain about … something… I guess.

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Tulsi Gabbard. Republican’s favorite Democrat. I think that should tell you all you need to know.

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I’m saying coastal democrat americans are so partisan as to let Hillary get by with anything. Above the law.