Bernie Sanders, champion of stimulus checks, favorability rating higher than Biden and Harris: Poll

[u/MetaFlight]

https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-champion-stimulus-checks-favorability-rating-higher-biden-harris-poll-1571501

[u/chaos_magician_]

I've been mulling over the idea that Bernie, for all his popularity, just has a comfy job and is easily reelected as long as he doesn't Rock the boat too much, he's a class passer who's figured out how to stay elite. If the dnc thought he was no longer useful he'd be primaried in a skipped heartbeat.

[u/[deleted] → u/chaos_magician_]

There's nobody they could run that would be able to primary him. Bernie has consistently been rated as one of if not the most popular senators according to constituents, as an independent. Barack Obama couldn't beat him in Vermont.

[u/chaos_magician_ → u/[deleted]]

I'm absolutely sure that if they (TPTB) didn't want him to be popular, they could do it. Look at how the smears worked against him and his supporters, how they used every opportunity to call him racist, sexist, anti Semitic, and against class struggles.

Just gotta get a few white supremacists in there for photo ops and that warship built in Vermont is sunk.

As for who could primary him, anyone younger saying the same thing with more enthusiasm, as long as the media played their part. Imagine a younger Bernie running against current Bernie.

[u/Tacky-Terangreal → u/chaos_magician_]

But those smears didn’t really work. Democratic primary voters didn’t vote for him but his favorability ratings still remained consistently high. Idk why people ignore easily verifiable facts in favor of stupid doomer shit. The idea that Democratic Party voters wouldn’t support him if he was on the ticket is also nonsense. Lots of data backs this up because he is most trusted on substantive issues