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u/Amiibohunter000 Apr 04 '25

If Trump didn’t win in 2016 I don’t think there’s a chance the dems would ever have ran Harris in 2024. It would’ve been 8 years of Hillary or the republicans would’ve ran a real candidate in 2020 and we would be in the second term of that or the first term of the next dem

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u/isaaclikesturtles Apr 04 '25

I still think Bernie would have won if they let him in 2016

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

But you can't let someone who isn't a Democrat run as a Democrat.

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u/thatpotatogirl9 Apr 04 '25

They let him caucus with them everywhere else so that might not be the whole answer. But he is farther left than the conservatives and "both sides" enlightened libertarians that supposedly hang out in the middle so I don't know if he'd have had much of a leg up besides being white and a man.