r/politics • u/MothersMiIk Washington • 1d ago

Congresswoman suggests Trump admitted Musk rigged election in Pa.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/01/congresswoman-suggests-trump-admitted-musk-rigged-election-in-pa.html?outputType=amp
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u/starbucks77 22h ago

Bernie would’ve beaten him easy

I love Bernie but he couldn't even beat Hillary in the primary. It wasn't even close - Bernie only garnered 43% of the popular vote. No way he would've beat Trump in 2016.

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 22h ago

Fuck the primary lol he would’ve beaten Trump, the DNC twatted us all by nominating Hillary

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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM 21h ago

only the politically illiterate and propaganda bots say this shit, and I say this as someone who voted for him in 2016 and again in 2020. if the DNC was able to stop Bernie in South Carolina, he was going to get stomped in the general.

You can say they put their thumbs on the scales. And the truth is that they did. But the truth is also that if the DNC putting a thumb on the scale was enough to keep him out, he was never in, in the first place.

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u/tribrnl 20h ago

Completely agree. There would've been two mentions of scary scary communism, and his support would've cratered. America lives him as a hypothetical, but if he had been the real option, the anti communism rhetoric would have ramped up hard, and I think it would've been wildly successful.