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What were the reasons why Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders lost support during the
campaigns?
Interesting question, well, they didn’t!
It’s really like comparing apples to oranges, so, Bernie Sanders lost the nomination for
the, Democratic ticket, for the Presidential election.
So he lost out to Hillary Clinton, at the stage which they were basically choosing which
Democratic member is going to run for the presidency up against, whichever the Republican
was.
And of course, that was Donald Trump.
Now, multiple reasons; so Bernie didn’t really lose, Bernie, I guess his kind of very
left wing, by American standards, not by anywhere else, but by American standards, Bernie is
a little bit of a, you know, self-proclaimed socialist, and I think that scares some people.
Most his, the money he raised was online, and from the younger generation.
So I believe, what was it, something like 17, 18 dollars approximately was the average
donation to Bernie Sanders, very small!
Forgive me if I am mistaken, but it was very small definitely under $50.
So he unfortunately, when it came to the uh, nomination, to run on the ticket, he didn’t
get it.
Now, we found out a few months later that it seems that Hillary Clinton had some dubious
dealings with Democratic National Convention.
Rather that she, the questions they were asked, I believe she was privy to, she knew, she
was told the questions, so she had time to prepare.
It wasn’t spontaneous, and that’s a huge advantage of course.
But apart from that, I definitely think, when you know, you are in the Clinton family, kind
of like the Kennedys, they’re political dynasty, you could say; well connected, establishment
elite by now.
You know, maybe their backgrounds were not, but for sure, they are considered political
elite, wealthy.
So well connected, you know, when your friends essentially, are running the show in the Democratic
party, it’s easy to have an advantage, maybe a lot of these things are not written down,
but nevertheless they do, matter.
So basically, yes, the establishment.
Now, now, if you want to go further and ask, why did Hillary Clinton lose support after
she became the nominee, for the Democratic party?
Well, it’s pretty easy, the email scandal she had, that didn’t help of course.
But I think mostly it’s about the fact that people just don’t trust Hillary, they never
did, they don’t trust her husband too much, but they trust her even less.
She, yeah, she’s part of the establishment.
I think the people are sick of that, the vote, a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because,
not really because they’re enamored by him.
I mean, he has no history, in politics.
But that was his advantage, that was the reason why people liked him.
They thought to bring someone else, someone to shake up things, and you know, the Clintons
had 8 years in office.
Of course, the best, economically the best years we’ve had, since the Great Depression
definitely.
But still people don’t trust them, there are questions lingering regarding the Clinton
Foundation, that’s got a lot of money from Arab, gulf states.
So a lot of people wondering, you know, whether, essentially, um, countries that have questionable
practices and human rights abuses etcetera, are trying to buy favor through the Clinton
Foundation; and whether that influences, of course, the future president, which would
have been Hillary Clinton.
So yeah, people don’t trust her, and people wanted someone fresh, someone new—really
bad decision as we’ve seen during the last 14/15 months, but regardless, it was against,
and that was the biggest mistake of the Democratic party.
To choose someone that was so establishment against, to run against someone that wasn’t.
When they took polls, between Bernie and Trump, projected polls, I believe Bernie was at least
10% ahead, but with Clinton it was 2 or 3%, and that by the election, and basically the
margin of error on these polls is about 2%, so you could say they were neck and neck.
Now it is true that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but did not win the number of
electoral college votes needed to clinch the presidency.
Happened with George W. Bush also, few years back.
But, nevertheless, the gap should have been bigger, and we see that with town halls, that
Bernie Sanders has, that he can sit in a room, with white farmers in Arkansas and Alabama,
Louisiana, and people, Trump voters essentially, mostly Trump voters, that basically talk about,
talk about universal healthcare, talk about foreign policy, talk about, you know, the
Israel/Palestine conflict.
Even though he’s Jewish, which is interesting, he is very much about Palestinian rights as
well as Israeli rights.
So, he’s not skewed to one side.
And he’s been saying the same message for the last 50 years.
So, nothing has changed, we just gave him a little more attention.
Unfortunately not even to clinch this, but yeah, people are tired of the way things are
and they want someone fresh, and they thought Donald Trump, was that person.
Alright, if you have any other questions please post them below, and I’ll try and answer
them spontaneously.
Thank you!