BERNIE’S PLOT
AGAINST OBAMA
COMPILATION AND
COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
FEBRUARY 19,
2020
TRUTH, OR FAUX
FACTS? NATIONAL REVIEW IS CONSIDERED A CONSERVATIVE SOURCE, BUT THEY ALSO
AREN’T KNOWN FOR LOTS OF FACTUAL ERRORS OR WORSE. FIRST, BERNIE HAS BEEN
RUNNING OR CONSIDERING IT LONGER THAN I REALIZED, AND EVEN IN 2011, THE DEMS
WERE FEARFUL THAT HE WOULD “POSE A SERIOUS CHALLENGE.” SO, NOTHING HAS CHANGED,
I BELIEVE, INCLUDING MY MIND. SEE THIS AND THE NEXT STORY ON THE SUBJECT FROM
THE ATLANTIC.
Obama Team
Asked Harry Reid to Quash Bernie Sanders’s 2011 Primary Challenge: Report
By TOBIAS
HOONHOUT
February 19,
2020 2:11 PM
LISTEN TO THIS
ARTICLE – PLAYING ARTICLE: Obama Team Asked Harry Reid to Quash Bernie
Sanders’s 2011 Primary Challenge Report | National Review
PHOTOGRAPH --
Harry Reid on Capitol Hill in 2016 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Former Senate
Majority Leader and Nevada Democrat Harry Reid convinced Bernie Sanders not to
mount a primary run against former President Barack Obama in 2011, according
to The Atlantic.
Reid was
reportedly tasked by an “absolutely panicked” Obama campaign team to dissuade
Sanders — who had privately disclosed his intentions to fellow Vermont Senator
Patrick Leahy — because they were fearful that Sanders would pose a serious
challenge.
“Every
president who has gotten a real primary has lost a general,” Obama’s 2012
reelection-campaign manager Jim Messina told The Atlantic.
After being
told of the situation by Leahy, Messina then asked Reid to talk Sanders out
of the race. The two men reportedly discussed the matter twice over the summer
of 2011, with Reid telling Sanders that he needed to stop. The dialogue proved
fruitful: Sanders never entered the race.
Reid, though
retired, made headlines Wednesday by telling Bloomberg News that
Sanders’s primary opponents need to “speak up” if they “don’t like what
Bernie’s doing.”
“If Bernie is
the one that comes out ahead, we’ll just have to see what happen,” Reid said, remaining
coy on who he supported in the race. “But if people don’t like what he does,
they’re going to have to start saying they don’t like it rather than pat him on
the back.” He added that the other Democrats need to shift their strategy and
start taking initiative, rather than thinking “‘if I say something negative,
maybe people won’t like me.’”
Reid also said
Saturday that “people should not be counting Joe Biden out of the race yet.”
Last week,
Nevada’s politically-powerful culinary union decided not to endorse a
Democratic nominee for the state’ upcoming primary caucus, with Politico
reporting that the union’s top adviser helped the group arrive at its decision
after “multiple conversations” with Reid.
The culinary
union circulated a flyer to its 60,000 members ahead of the announcement which
highlighted that Sanders would “end Culinary Healthcare.”
WATCH: 0:30 --
Sanders Expected to Win New Hampshire Democratic Primary
TOBIAS HOONHOUT
is a news writer for National Review Online. @tjhoonhout
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HERE IS SOME
MORE EDITORIAL CLEVERNESS. IF SENATOR LEAHY WAS SO “ALARMED” ABOUT SANDERS’
PLAN TO RUN AGAINST OBAMA, SOMETHING THAT HE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO DO, WHY IS IT
THAT LEAHY HAS NOW ENDORSED SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT IN 2020? AND WHAT MAKES IT A “PLOT,”
AFTER ALL? BECAUSE HE DIDN’T PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE IT BEFORE FLOATING THE IDEA PRIVATELY
WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE? THAT SOUNDS NORMAL TO ME. IT’S A HUGE DECISION, AFTER ALL.
YAHOO GAVE ME
ONE PARAGRAPH OF SUMMARY BEFORE CUTTING ME OFF, WHICH APPEARS BELOW.
The Hidden
History of Sanders’s Plot to Primary Obama
The Atlantic
Edward-Isaac
Dovere
The Atlantic • February
19, 2020
PHOTOGRAPH -- The
Hidden History of Sanders’s Plot to Primary Obama
“Bernie Sanders
got so close to running a primary challenge to President Barack Obama that
Senator Harry Reid had to intervene to stop him. It took Reid two
conversations over the summer of 2011 to get Sanders to scrap the idea,
according to multiple people who remember the incident, which has not been
previously reported. Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s
presidential reelection-campaign manager.”
ABOUT THIS
ATLANTIC PIECE, THAT PUBLICATION (SAID IN THE SAME WAY THAT FORMER PRESIDENT
BILL CLINTON REFERRED TO HIS MISTRESS OF THE MOMENT AS “THAT WOMAN”) TELLS ME
THAT I HAVE HAD MY LAST FREE ARTICLE, AND I’M NOT GOING TO SUBSCRIBE, SO CHECK
IT OUT FOR YOURSELF: I THINK THE ESSENCE OF IT IS NO MORE THAN WHAT THE
NATIONAL REVIEW HAS GIVEN, IN GENUINE INFORMATION CONTENT. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/sanders-obama-primary-challenge/606709/.
MORE ON BARRY
AND BERNIE
VIDEO ONLY –
02:32 DURATION
What Obama is
saying in private about Sanders, NY Magazine reports
Newsroom
New York
Magazine reports that President Obama has privately made clear to Bernie
Sanders' campaign that he will support Sanders if he is the nominee.
Source: CNN
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