we've been analyzing and reviewing the results from Super Tuesday, and these are not good results for the Progressive Movement of the United States and it's really important when we look at these
results to contextualize them not only in terms of what they mean in terms of issue­oriented questions like support for Medicare for All which is still high or support for a particular college
policies or whatever, but it also needs to be looked at in the context of some of the coalitions and labeled groups that exist. And I went into detail about the results already. I won't do it again. Join
building a lead of about 70 delegates over Bernie right now and based on the polling in the remaining states, still, to vote. It is an uphill battle for Bernie Sanders.
This is now not about these results but the bigger picture, we knew this would happen in the sense that we knew they'd try it, right?
There was a question of whether it would work to try to coalesce the establishment vote, and so far it worked.
You heard all sorts of analyses for the last six months, about Bernie ceiling is like 18 and then Bernie gets to 20 and then Bernie ceiling is like 23 and then burning gets the 25 and then Bernie
ceiling is 30 and then he gets the 31 and 32 and some national polls. But there was a question of whether... Is there some sealing... And when you look at BI and creating
in the polls and focusing on South Carolina the first racially diverse state, you have to start to say if there is a ceiling for Bernie, "This is an interesting way to test it by focusing in on that first more
racially diverse state arguably more representative of some other parts of the country and the democratic electric. So I got that boost from Congressman "Cliburn winning in South Carolina by a
bigger margin than the poll suggested. And what that meant was that voters were thinking, Okay, if I don't want... Bernie Warren is increasingly weak. Basically bid in, is my choice. Then Pete
dropped out. Well, if you weren't already with Bernie then pet dropping out more than likely pushes you to Joe
Biden if Amy drops out, which she did and endorses Dobie. Well, that's more support for job. And so the question was, is there a significant amount of the support for other candidates? Pete and Amy
is an example that would go to Bernie Sanders or is bite and going to get the lion's share of Amy and pet supporters does a big rally with Amy and Beto or... Or gets the pet endorsement and then
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supposed to lose those states. So now, there's all sorts of enlightened analysis coming out of the woodwork in the DNC
establishment stole it Bernie's campaign was ganged up on it was voter suppression. insiders don't want burning to be the nominee. corporate media has been boosting bid, and an hurting burning all
along, and every single one of those has some truth to it. There is no question, but we also have to realize that Bernie is not merely the victim here, because if we don't recognize that the progressive
movement will never win and that would be a tragedy when we see Bernie not take pack money, we love it, it's the right thing to do. It's morally correct.
Lots of House seats have been one in that way, but every decision has some risk associated with it. When burning doesn't play these inside baseball party politics games with the Democratic Party
where they coordinate they say, "Let's get pee out. Let's figure out how to stop this at, let's get Burnie out on this day, get Amy out on this day to endorse. I love that Bernie doesn't play those
games, he just runs his campaigns, he tells it like he sees it, he says what he would do he puts together policy Bernie is loved because he doesn't play those games, but in a lot of the real world,
sometimes you need to play those games to get into a position of power in the first place, to then change the system. So when we say the establishment stole it, there's no doubt the DNC
establishment coordinated this 96­hour plan of consolidating Amy and bode edge around Jo bite, and of course it was fabricated and planned but it only works if there's enough centrist or center­left
support to make it possible and it was... So we have to recognize that when we spend time on Twitter and read it, we get an overly optimistic assessment of the portion of the national Democratic
letter electorate who wants someone like Bernie that's not an attack on Bernie. There's lots of candidates that are liked.
Excuse me, getting very fired up in punching my Mike. There was lots of candidates that are liked and disliked by different electors. It doesn't tell us if they're good or bad candidates, but we have to
recognize that if you ask people about Medicare for all people are increasingly for it. If you ask people about free college, people are increasingly for it, there are lots of people who don't want
Bernie to be the nominee, and a lot of them voted last night when so many people come out and vote for someone other than Bernie. We can't just say people are confused and they were tricked by
the DNC and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because then, we will not win if that's what we do, if we just say We are the victims and everybody else is has either been bamboos old or whatever the case
may be. When you look at people, supporting BI and pet and Amy throughout the campaign, and not... We tried to ignore it, but there is this total amount of center­left ideology in the Democratic
Party Medicare for All more popular than ever free college. You zoom out, and there are millions of Democrats who believe in what they call capitalism and
they hear democratic socialism and they don't like it socialism viewed more favorably now than in decades, but there are lots of Democratic primary voters, who believe in what they see as
moderation. This is not an attack on anybody this is not praise for anybody, it's assessing the electorate. Bernie bet on a ton of new voters that he could bring out, but new voters voted by
roughly the same proportion as in 2016, in some states, lower new voter turnout. There is a racial analysis to be made. Bernie one Hispanic voters with 50% he only got 15% of the black vote
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yesterday, 60% for by­BIN young voters, a lot stayed home. Another group Bernie was counting on... And then lastly there is something to be said just more broadly about coalitions, and the people
that different candidates get involved with. And so, the cord that that strikes with a more casual follower of politics, I've talked about some of the toxic people around Bernie.
I can see past it because I care about policy and I believe Bernie has the right policies, but all over my Facebook page and Twitter account. There were people telling me, David, I agree with Bernie
the most every time I do one of these tests about whose policy is closest tears, but I don't wanna implicitly approve of the toxic people. Bernie has around him, and they said... So I ended up voting
for bian. So if you said to me, "Well how could Bernie have fixed it? That would require me to tell you that
Bernie should have been someone other than who he is. The last thing I'm going to tell you is Bernie should be inauthentic because Bernie is all about authenticity. He calls himself a democratic
socialist he has the people around him that he wants around him Bernie refuses to do the inauthentic stuff. And this was the result, okay, tons of people have been saying Bernie needs a one­on­one
against someone, else in the primary and then he'll do really well. It became very quickly a de facto one­on­one of course, Bloomberg taking votes from "bian and
Warren likely taking votes from Bernie. We now have to go through Florida and New York, and Michigan, with what is going to effectively be a two­person race, and it may actually be one very
soon. There's one other important number here which is the popular vote right now, Joe, Biden has received nearly a million votes more than Bernie. If you look at the percentages Joe Biden has
received 24% more votes than Burnie in these primaries, when you see that it has to be more than just the establishment played delegate games to sneak by, more delegates.
We can't ignore it, if we, in the progressive movement, ignore these numbers, we will lose now Joie may be the nominee and is very, very possible he will lose to Don from... Anyway we'll talk about
that. That's a different argument, but I think it's important for the Progressive Movement to have a healthy and accurate assessment of what is going on here and not resort to the sort of selfvictimized and blaming everybody else for what took place.
That's not going to get us anywhere and I don't wanna see that done. Tell me where you disagree with me. I'm ready, I'm on Twitter at pack.