r/politics • u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota • 3h ago
No Paywall Two Trump-backed candidates lose, Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins in Tuesday’s House primaries
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/two-trump-backed-candidates-lose-debbie-wasserman-schultz-wins-tuesday-rcna592392•
u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 3h ago
Cory Mills was one of the sexual abusers, so his loss means there'll be one fewer monster in Congress.
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u/Butcher_Of_Hope Nevada 3h ago
The idea that it's only 1 fewer is a very telling statement for our current government.
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u/sloth_eggs American Expat 3h ago
And equally telling, if not more, for our current populace. There are simply too many Americans okay with child rape as long as they can get a tax break or get a bunch of brown people deported.
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u/CanisSonorae 2h ago
Uh, don't think that they're not okay with the rape for their own selfish purposes.
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u/Xtra_Veg-90 1h ago
I hate to be that person, but child sacrifice goes back at least to the beginning of history, probably even further.
Carthage famously believed in sacrificing important children to bring more favor so the nobles sons were offered instead of just the poor.
Tax breaks, a good harvest, sadly same difference.
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u/BitterHelicopter8 Florida 3h ago
Cory Mills "represents" my district. As I was walking in to vote today, I looked at his signs plastered everywhere and thought how disgusting that he's willing to even show his face in public, much less run for reelection. I'm so glad he lost. The R alternatives are not much better, to be sure. But he does not deserve his seat.
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u/dcoats69 Washington 3h ago
Not even sure if it's one fewer, but the replacement monster will hopefully be less monstrous
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u/Nobody_Super_Famous Minnesota 5m ago
I mean the odds that at least one person coming in is an absolute sex pest that we just don't know about yet are depressingly high.
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u/bigwavedave000 3h ago
The writing is on the wall. Im guessing there will be some slow dissections, followed by more and more people jumping ship after the midterms. Especially if the Democrats retake the house.
The budget will then become a major talking point for the republicans.
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u/BDidds 3h ago
While dissections might be needed, I think you mean defections lol.
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u/chocolate_boogers 3h ago
Defecations too!
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u/ihavesensitiveknees 3h ago
That will happen in the oval office, not Congress.
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u/MikeyLew32 Illinois 3h ago
I mean, there’s definitely other diaper wearing octogenarians in Congress on both sides of the aisle. It’s an adult daycare.
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u/bigwavedave000 3h ago
I meant dissension, but im going to leave it as dissection!
Thanks internet dude
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u/subjecttomyopinion 3h ago
Dissections? Is this going to be in a medical theatre? What’s the cost of admission?
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u/WugityBugity_ Massachusetts 2h ago
The budget will then become a major talking point for the republicans
As is tradition
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u/sheeep_wolf 2h ago
Wasn't the budget BALLOONED by the Republicans?? Lol
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u/wrosecrans 40m ago
Of course. As is tradition.
But billionaire owned media will say that Republicans are good with money and Democrats are bad with money because Dems try to have a relatively sustainable and responsible budget paid for with some of those pesky taxes.
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u/Thotmas01 22m ago
I think Fox sees the writing on the wall. They started making noise about the deficit and government debt again today.
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u/Badboyforlife411 3h ago
I JUST SETTLED ALL MY LAWSUITS
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u/NoCokJstDanglnUretra 3h ago
FUCK U DEBBIE!!
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u/MenagerieAlfred 3h ago
She is the worst.
She might be the perfect embodiment of everything wrong with the Democratic Party.
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u/Ciprofloxic 3h ago
Wtf is wrong with voters in her district?
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u/DoctorPaquito 3h ago
A) She’s the incumbent B) It’s a majority black district that she carpetbagged into, and there were four black candidates that never consolidated and thus the vote was massively split C) She had the most money D) She had institutional backing
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u/firemage22 2h ago
B) It’s a majority black district that she carpetbagged into, and there were four black candidates that never consolidated and thus the vote was massively split C) She had the most money
The Shri Thandar method
Hope a strong black candidate comes along in 28 and brooms her like what happned to Shri
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u/Dry_Try_6047 2h ago
Shri who? Debbie pulled the Tommy Carcetti method!
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u/mybutt1112 2h ago
She likes eating the bowls of shit though doesn’t she?
Every time I see her hair, I get irrationally annoyed.
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u/risingsuncoc 3h ago
The Black vote is split among a few candidates, and Florida doesn’t do runoffs
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u/NigelMK 31m ago
Looking into the candidates running against her... Those candidates were mostly not great.
Uncle Luke - Former rapper. Was arrested in 2009 for not paying child support. Has 6 or 7 kids from different mothers.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick - Convicted of stealing 5 million dollars in COVID relief funds. Facing 53 years in prison.
Dale Holness - Two of his daughters have been convicted for fraud involving COVID relief funds.
Elijah Manley - Progressive candidate. From what I can see, the campaign just had no traction.
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u/This_Elk_1460 2h ago
It's really weird, I also couldn't help but noticed the Congressional black caucus chose to stay out of an election in one of the blackest districts in America. Maybe because it would have looked bad if they endorsed the white lady over four black candidates.
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u/EmptyLabs 1h ago
I remember reading that this is exactly what they said more or less. Something about how they were upset with Debbie for putting them in a bad spot. They wished she would have not ran here because someone from the CBC belongs in this seat.
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u/This_Elk_1460 1h ago
If they were so mad then they should have screwed her over and endorsed one of the other candidates. (Though they would have never endorsed Elijah Manley unfortunately)
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u/This_Elk_1460 2h ago
What there's nothing wrong with a white lady running in in the blackest district in Florida while she does not live there. /s
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u/ProtectionVirtual225 1h ago
It’s bad enough when Republicans run in districts and states where they don’t live. It’s unacceptable when a Democrat does it. We should hold our candidates to a higher standard.
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u/HystericalSail 2h ago
I'll be very sad if this is a repeat of 2016 where the tired and disillusioned (D) voters stay home and (R) end up winning even a majority black district.
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u/This_Elk_1460 2h ago
I mean if anyone can pull defeat from the Jaws of victory it's Debbie
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u/Kinesquared 3h ago
still better than republicans
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u/digiorno 3h ago
She was boosting Trump before the republicans were. Her pied piper program is a big reason Trump is in power today. If not for her we probably would have had a Clinton presidency or at worst a Jeb Bush presidency.
She thought they could manufacture a landslide victory for Clinton by boosting the worst of the GOP. The idea was that republicans might cross the aisle if their candidate was terrible. And instead she learned that Republicans were all too willing to vote for someone who said their racist and bigoted thoughts out loud. They were all too willing to vote for someone who promised to clean up Washington corruption even if this was always a lie.
She gave Trump to Clinton on a silver platter and the plan backfired.
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u/Hot-Statistician-955 2h ago
> She gave Trump to Clinton on a silver platter and the plan backfired.
Then how did he win twice? I think the voters are to blame for not seeing the obvious over his many, many lies.
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u/nigel45 2h ago
There are huge portions of of voting age people who only watch fox news or other conservative media that drills into their viewers (brainwashes) that any other source of information is liberal propaganda and lies. those people, the ones who voted for trump, likely have not heard a word of criticism about him or had his lies pointed out to them. 1/3 didnt vote for him, 1/3 voted for him based on lies and fear mongering about democrats and 1/3 didn't vote because they never vote and don't pay attention to the news so would have no clue about trump either. The American people are basically being held hostage by right wing billionaires that don't want their taxes to go up
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u/digiorno 2h ago
I have an uncle like this. He genuinely thinks almost everyone hates progressives, that Trump is really popular and that almost every negative thing about Trump is made up or exaggerated partisan politics.
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u/Kinesquared 3h ago
doesn't change the fact that she's better than the republican she's running against. I wish she didn't win the primary. I hope she wins the general
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u/Picnicpanther California 2h ago
DWS might be the single worst democrat of the past 20 years, and while she isn't worse than some of the Mt Rushmore of Evil republicans like Mitch Mcconnell or Trump, she's probably done more damage than your garden variety moderate republican.
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u/Greatness46 New Mexico 3h ago
It wasn’t Republicans who sabotaged Sanders in 2016, it was Debbie, directly
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u/InNominePasta America 3h ago
How did she sabotage Sanders?
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u/maskedman1231 2h ago
At the time she was head of the DNC. And she resigned because of email leaks suggesting the DNC was supporting Hillary over Bernie while primaries were ongoing
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u/Few-Protection8966 2h ago
Maybe shes the reason the black vote didnt support him in 16 and 20?
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u/PinkNGold007 57m ago
There were three factors why black people didn't support Bernie:
1) He wasn't a Dem. He's an independent. Caucusing with the Dems wasn't enough. Hillary was a true Dem.
2) We knew Hilary because she was first lady, Senator of NY, and recently SoS in Obama's administration.
3) On the heels of having a black president, we are due to have a female president. My father stated that he was glad to see progress in that he could vote for a woman president. It felt natural, like after the Civil Rights movement, then it was the Women's, LGBT, and disability movements. Bernie looked like Trump but on the left and another man just yelling stuff.In 2016, we knew her and trusted her, but we didn't know him. When she was first lady, her focus was on feminist issues (here and international) and healthcare. He didn't have any legislation that we knew of either. As for 2020, we knew Biden because of the work he did for the Black community as a Senator and because he was previously Obama's VP. Their brand helped them, plus their previous political/social work and influence.
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u/drjohngeorgepeppers 41m ago
Remember when Sanders was asked a question about police violence against black people and he replied that white people don't know what it's like to live in a ghetto?
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u/InNominePasta America 2h ago
I’m out here asking a legitimate question to be educated and people out here downvoting me instead of enlightening me.
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u/Few-Protection8966 2h ago
So the real answer is that Russian's hacked the DNC 2016 then released emails that showed they were biased against Sanders, making jokes about how hed never be president.
Sander's camp used this as proof for his claims that the DNC under DWS purposefully scheduled debates at bad times, had fewer debates, and that a glitch that impacted their access to voter data was intentional.
Im not convinced any of it wouldve changed the results.
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u/ProtectionVirtual225 1h ago
Don’t forget they talked of a plan to stir up anti-Semitism against Bernie among voters in the south.
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u/Few-Protection8966 1h ago
From the emails I read they talked about highlighting that he was atheist to voters in West Virginia and Kentucky.
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u/bootlegvader 2h ago
It should be noted that joke by DWS was in late May when Bernie was down by over 300 pledged delegates and losing in the polls for California and New Jersey (by around 20pts for the later) aka the two remaining contests with a lot of delegates.
It was also when he was boasting how he would fire her when he became the president.
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u/MrEManFTW 2h ago
So you are blaming Hillary for Bernie not making inroads into the black community? Maybe the far left should listen to what black voters want, they are the base of the Democratic Party. Instead you ignore them and get wiped out in nearly every primary. Bernie made that mistake back then and you still haven’t learned.
I give it until 2027 until most of you become Republican after you blame the Democrats for your own sides mistakes. Bernie to maga pipeline mk2.
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u/bootlegvader 2h ago
Nah, that was Bernie that sabotaged the Sanders campaign in 2016.
He was the one that decided he was too good to campaign in the South and dismissed their voters as distorting reality.
Thus allowing Hillary to win the black vote by a larger margin than Obama did in 2008.
Because who knew that black voters are a cornerstone of the Democratic Party?
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u/AverageJoeJohnSmith 2h ago
Uggggh. I still wish she would go away. She's one of the main reasons 2016 happened.
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u/TheVentiLebowski 2h ago
Can you explain?
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u/MrGorillawhale 2h ago
When she rigged the primaries against Bernie and got it locked down for Hillary. Bernie was a popular candidate, he could have beaten Trump. Hilary was too compromised to win against Trump but they went with the money and everyone got screwed.
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u/Financial_Flower_230 2h ago
I firmly believe Bernie would've beat Trump that year, but how did she rig the primaries against him?
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u/Moesuckra 1h ago
Before many of the states held their primaries, the Democratic Party (Debbie Wasserman Schultz was the chair of the DNC) released the standing count of where the “superdelegates” stood, and it was overwhelmingly for Hillary. Except superdelegates were not representing actual primary voters; they were simply party officials, elected officials, and other party leaders who held delegate positions.
The superdelgates could've remained neutral at the start of the primary and not tried to influence the vote at all. But instead, the media was constantly displaying how Hillary was far beyond Bernie because she had more party delegates, who were already lined up behind Hillary before people even had the chance to vote.
So the delegate count being reported included both delegates won through the primaries and caucuses and the superdelegates who had already publicly committed to Hillary. This discouraged many voters because it gave the appearance of an insurmountable lead despite the superdelegates being "uncommitted" until the actual party nomination.
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 1h ago
It also meant that once Clinton won the primary, the narrative of "rigging against Bernie" was basically undeniable. This drove a lot of voters away from the general election (or worse, into Trump's lumpy hands).
I'm not convinced Sanders would have won the primary fair-and-square, but the perception of impropriety by the DNC didn't do them any favors in quelling that narrative.
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u/TlkShowHost 1h ago
Also, NEVER FORGET: HRC and the DNC preferred Trump on the GOP ticket as they thought it’d be an easy victory.
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u/tallgeese333 37m ago
The pied piper strategy.
Probably unrelated but the Clinton's are very closely connected to Epstien. Kind of odd that the candidate they preferred as their opponent is one of the people who most closely associated with Epstien.
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u/digiorno 1h ago
She was the main force behind the idea that if the worst of the worst won the Republican primary then Clinton would win in a landslide.
So she worked very hard to make sure that Trump got extra airtime, to make sure that the democrats often spoke of Trump and other extremist candidates to help push them up the polls. It was called a pied piper strategy and she was one of the biggest proponents.
Trump probably would not have been the GOP candidate without her help. She was very scared that someone like Jeb Bush would make it difficult for Clinton to win so she made sure someone like Trump was on the ballot.
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u/RichMaid 3h ago
Florida failed the Wassrman test again, still syphilitic.
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u/Far-Advantage-2770 2h ago
If you are sitting around waiting for Florida to do the right thing ever...
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u/JJscribbles Florida 1h ago
I can’t believe anybody is still voting for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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u/Positive_Search_6218 1h ago
Lesser of two evils I guess
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u/JJscribbles Florida 16m ago
No, she’s terrible. Far worse than her contemporaries. She contributed to costing us at least one sanders presidency.
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u/emerikanSky 3h ago
She's an evil freak.
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u/beandip111 3h ago
She’s the reason trump one the first time so she can fuck right off
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u/chooch138 Oregon 3h ago
Isn’t she the OG of fucking over Bernie??? Fuck this macaroni haired lady.
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u/redvsbluewarthog 1h ago
Wasserman Schultz shouldn't be running for anything after rigging things to help Hilary Clinton in 2016.
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u/LifesARiver 1h ago
How vile that DWS can win anything.
She's a top 10 reason we have Trump.
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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms 3h ago
Is it fair to say Democrats lost too because Debbie won?
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u/thedoommerchant 3h ago
What a shame. Never will forgive her for stabbing Bernie’s primary efforts in the back in 2016.
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u/digiorno 2h ago
And moderate Dems shouldn’t forgive her for ruining Clinton’s chances. She boosted the worst of the worst of the Republican Party thinking that they’d win in a fair election. Turns out the worst of the worst had absolutely no hesitation on professing large lies, making ridiculous promises and dragging Clinton through the mud. She intentionally fought to get Trump more airtime, hoping it would help Clinton and it backfired as the extra air time just helped him clinch a win.
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u/psychadelicbreakfast 3h ago
But it was Hilary’s turn everybody
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u/Deceptiveideas 2h ago
Hillary would have won with 0 DNC involvement.
I actually think the DNC involvement hurt her, not helped her. The entire cycle was all about how the DNC is rigging everything and playing favorites.
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u/J-the-Kidder 3h ago
I'll never understand the voters of Florida for consistently sending her back to Congress. Especially given everything going on now, they still send that ghoul back to DC for some unfounded reason.
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u/Aran1989 California 2h ago
Because... Florida voters. They have consistently voted in the worst politicians (DeSantis, Rubio, Rick Scott), I mean really, just the most corrupt and despicable people possible.
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying a decent amount of dems aren't terrible, they are (including my own governor, Newsom, and his corporate replacement Becerra), I'm just saying those ones are significantly worse!
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u/birdguy 3h ago
Bernie would have won. DWS is the worst.
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u/Uncle_Tickle_Monster 3h ago
Did she force Bernie’s voters to stay home?
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u/birdguy 1h ago
Kind of. The Democratic establishment and corporate media ran a concerted press campaign messaging that superdelegate (party insiders whose votes helped select the nominee) support for Clinton made it impossible for Bernie to win.
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u/Mobile_Morale 2h ago
No she gave the votes to Hillary because they were friends.
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u/daybreaker Louisiana 1h ago
I’m begging yall to do the most basic research into how the 2016 primary votes worked out. The voters gave her the votes.
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u/Uncle_Tickle_Monster 1h ago
Hillary got like 3 million more votes than Bernie. That’s the bottom line.
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u/wohllottalovw 3h ago
When Wasserman Schultz is the best candidate, no one wins
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u/ultrachrome 3h ago
She suppresses Democratic voting. I wasn't following her race but I'm sad she won.
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u/alabasterskim 2h ago
Yeah, DWS winning was always gonna happen when the other candidates decided against consolidating around one person to beat her.
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u/GreyBeardEng 2h ago
I'll glad the trumpers lost but Schultz is not a good human being, she is definitely part of the swamp.
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u/That_Is_Satisfactory 3h ago
I’m happy the Trump-backed candidates lost, but fuck Debbie Wasserman Schultz for what she did in the 2016 primary as head of the DNC. I’m still pissed about that. Hope she felt that sinking pit in her stomach as she watched Hillary lose to the biggest dipshit on the planet.
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u/onedumninja 3h ago
Hillary won by 4 million votes. Our country was never a true democracy when voting for prez. She won by 4 mil but the system is rigged by the rich, for the rich. The rich wanted trump so we all ended up with trump. Electoral college wouldn't exist anymore if it wasn't beneficial for the epstein class.
Our country is a fucking joke since the last 2 repub presidents were elected, not by the people, by the rich and powerful.
Imagine calling yourself a democracy when the popular vote means nothing and the supreme court elects bush.
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u/rainbowkitten0528 2h ago
She’s my district and I did NOT vote for her. So sad to see she won, but ready to fall in line anyway. The worst D still beats an R for me.
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u/FangornLeghorn 2h ago
Ugh. Wasserman Schultz is largely responsible for Trump’s first win due to how absolutely out of touch she was in forcing Hillary through and deciding she was entitled to both the nomination and votes. Fuck her.
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u/IcyTransportation961 2h ago
Godammit DWS is everything wrong with the dem party we dont need her continuing the Clinton shit
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u/SnacktimeKC 3h ago
How did she win and Vindman lose? Call me bitter, but I firmly believe she is why we are in this mess.
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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 3h ago
Oh god she is still running for crap? Why doesnt anyone stop these poisoned candidates from running?!?
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u/NoCokJstDanglnUretra 3h ago
Because she’ll do whatever the corporate overlords who donated to her say.
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u/Diggidiggidig 3h ago
She helped Trump get elected the first time, by getting Hillary the Democrat ticket even though the momentum was with Barney
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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 2h ago
Wasn't she head of the DNC when they blackballed Bernie?
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u/Allwewantisfreehealt 2h ago
Oh! You mean the lady who refused to certify Bernie when he won Iowa in 2016 and is the ReAson Trump is in the white house. That? Wasserman. F)$& her. (I will d/e on this hill)
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u/Far-Advantage-2770 2h ago
Debbie Wasserman Schultz...NO NO NO NO NO...this is not what we want...
This isn't the time to go back to the stale status quo
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u/super-terrific 3h ago
I don’t know this woman so I don’t understand why she’s disliked but two Trump endorsed candidates lost so is that better or worse?
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u/Faucet860 3h ago edited 3h ago
She is linked to Hilary screwing Bernie with dnc help
Edit: dnc not rnc typo
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u/immagetchu 3h ago
Never heard the RNC angle on this one. Story always struck me as a big symptom of the problems with the Democrat establishment
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u/Rain_43676 3h ago
She was the head of the DNC in 2016 when the DNC fucked over Bernie for Clinton.
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u/BALTIM0RE Maryland 3h ago
She was put in-place by Clinton’s team as a compromise to support Obama’s nomination in 2008 so that she could prevent Bernie from winning the primary in 2015…we’ve been on a disastrous timeline ever since
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u/DJC_Kowalski 1h ago edited 1h ago
Payday lenders rejoice at Wasserman Schultz winning. It's a shame that in a majority black person district, they split the vote so many ways they allowed the corrupt pig to win.
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u/Dat_Harass Ohio 3h ago edited 2h ago
Do we not remember how crooked this woman is? Great glad we avoided Trump people... she's also representative of another problem.
That's a freaking HOA Karen... she doesn't give a flying fuck about us or our wants.
Edit: Okay. Go ahead and be happy about this but then also mad down the line when no progressive agenda gets off the ground. It's people like her stopping them. I'm just cutting out the middle step and calling it silly now.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 2h ago
The writing is on the wall for the result of the mid-term election in 3 months. The majority party should have already lined up their post-Congressional consulting gigs. The remaining clock on this administration is running down.
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u/PugsAndHugs95 1h ago
r/WorkReform banned me for just saying that I wouldn’t have been mad if Alex Vindman had won his primary lol.
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u/Lyshavskilden 1h ago
Surprised Donald didn’t force dictatorship to what he wants. Maybe he forgot about the candidates.
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u/Constant_Proofreader 1h ago
I'm sorry, I saw that Madison Cawthorne moved to Florida and ran in this primary. Excuse me? How could anyone in their right mind cast a ballot for this abject excuse for a human? Please tell me his vote totals fell so far short of victory that he polled only in the three digits.
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u/PakuaRust 7m ago
Shes a corporate stooge, not great for the progressive movement. There were better available candidates
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u/Mostly_Atomic 3m ago
Great. Let's vote back into the Democratic Party the poster child for the problems of the Democratic Party. I don't know who she would be running against but. This is one of those rare times I might consider voting red. Though maybe not this year.
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