Episode 745 | Bernie Sanders and the Black Vote ... Again...
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In fact, former Black, Sanders staffers said this while working on the campaign in 2016. Bernie has both the ability to authentically connect with Black voters of all backgrounds, but he isn't connecting with Black voters of all backgrounds.
Yes, he does well with Black millennials and Black Zoomers. But he needs to connect with Generation X, Boomers, the Black church and the politically apathetic. He certainly has the authenticity to do so. Will he? That was the question of 2016.
Let's discuss.... again.
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| 0:00.0 | The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support. |
| 0:04.4 | Go to W.W. dot the Benjamin Dixon Show.com to register for our blog and join the |
| 0:10.2 | Progressive Army. |
| 0:11.3 | It is time, ladies and gentlemen. It is time. It is time. It's time. |
| 0:20.8 | Say it with me. It is time for Bernie Sanders to lock up these primaries and to destroy Donald Trump. |
| 0:35.0 | Because Donald Trump, the reason I'm approaching it this way is because I need you to understand |
| 0:41.5 | Donald Trump's base is so excited about him. |
| 0:44.8 | They are so motivated by Donald Trump. |
| 0:47.5 | They think that Donald Trump is sent by God. |
| 0:50.6 | They honestly believe that he is ordained by God to deliver the prophecy of Trump. |
| 0:56.0 | There's a movie called The prophecy of Trump, the Trump prophecy. |
| 1:00.0 | They are so excited about the work that Donald Trump is doing. |
| 1:05.0 | The very thing things that we see as evil, they see is good. |
| 1:11.0 | And they are going to come out like we have never seen before and vote for Donald |
| 1:17.6 | Trump. They are going to be just as excited. They are going to consider it their own revolution. |
| 1:24.9 | They are the complete antithesis of everything that we stand for, but they believe that they are |
| 1:29.2 | right and we are wrong. |
| 1:30.5 | As wrong as we know them to be they believe that they are right and |
| 1:34.8 | believe that we are wrong and they are going to show up accordingly on |
| 1:39.6 | election day. Now you tell me who amongst that group of candidates has the momentum necessary |
| 1:50.5 | to beat Donald Trump. With one exception, one important exception. |
| 1:58.0 | The same exception that I talked about in 2015, the same exception that my sister Noah Changa talks about all the time. |
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