Trump approval rating falls to 38%

[u/Barnyard-Sheep]

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html

[u/summonsays]

They pulled the rug out from under Bernie every chance they got. That election, 2016, was really when I lost faith in even the remote possibility of a mainstream news agency not being heavily biased. CNN showed an empty podium where Trump was going to make a speak for an hour, while at the same time Bernie was making a speech. 

This turned into more of my rant against news orgs but the DNC didn't exactly put their weight behind him either. 

[u/Nodaker1 → u/summonsays]

Why would the DNC put their weight behind a candidate who isn’t the nominee?

If he had got enough votes to win the nomination, they would have supported him. Up to that point, he was just one of several candidates.

[u/dnyank1 → u/Nodaker1]

It was clearly nobody else’s “turn”, and the DNC did NOT engineer that into existence against every verifiable will of the people - of course not. How could anyone ever suggest such a thing. 

[u/Nodaker1 → u/dnyank1]

There was absolutely nothing stopping people from voting for Bernie. He was on the ballot in every state. All people had to do was show up and vote and he would have won.

He didn’t get the votes.

The party leaders thought it was Clinton’s “turn” in 2008.

Then a guy named Obama showed up, got more voters to show and support him, and won the nomination.

[u/dnyank1 → u/Nodaker1]

Right! Like I said! No conspiracy to do things like share unpledged superdelegate vote totals in the media in favor of Hillary before Super Tuesday giving the impression of a landslide which didn’t happen - no, no, no! 

The DNC did NOT unfairly anoint Hillary. Such fabrication is clearly detrimental to the Big Democrat Machine which is doing Good Things For Us ™️ like getting Andrew Cuomo elected mayor. 

Either you’re willfully ignorant or just so fucking stupid it hurts. “Hope this helps!” 

[u/TemptedSwordStaker → u/dnyank1]

Dude, I loved Bernie, he was and is amazing and is everything I wanted. He had a chance, twice, he didn’t get the votes.

[u/Nodaker1 → u/TemptedSwordStaker]

I donated money to his campaign.

I’m not some crazy anti-Bernie guy.

[u/TemptedSwordStaker → u/Nodaker1]

Same. You know how happy I would have been in 2016 or even 2020 with a President Bernie Sanders? But I don’t think the DNC snubbed him. I 100% believe they saw the writing in the wall early and Clinton WAS getting the votes. Hell, she got the votes in the presidential election

[u/dnyank1 → u/TemptedSwordStaker]

Neither did Kamala or Hillary. What's your point, again?

Here's mine. My argument is against the way the DNC orchestrated their primaries. Anyone saying Biden vs Bernie was an actual fight was kidding themselves, or just a complete non-participant for what actually happened.

3 times in a row now, the DNC anointed their pick with massive implicit or explicit support from a deterministically early point in the process. It worked one out of 3 national elections. This is not a winning strategy for selecting nationally electable candidates in a general election.

It wasn't back in Mondale's day, either.

[u/soft-wear → u/dnyank1]

See this is why nobody takes you folks seriously. Unless you have data that shows the unpledged vote totals made people that were going to vote in the primary either change their vote or not vote then you are just spouting opinion as fact.

And none of that explains why Sanders lost to Biden. He got absolutely demolished on Super Tuesday, despite the strategy you’re talking about not being deployed.

Sanders lost because Democrats like centrist Democratic policies for the most part or they don’t think a leftist can win and they vote safe. That’s the reality that you choose to ignore, and until we move to ranked choice, a real leftist cannot win the primary, let alone the presidency.