'Who are we?' Big donors battle for Democrats' future in Florida

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Reuters
Letitia Stein
AUGUST 9, 2018

SARASOTA, Fla. (Reuters) - Andrew Gillum, the son of a bus driver who became the mayor of Florida’s capital, is struggling to gain traction with voters in his bid to become the state’s first black governor.

Yet key Democratic megadonors and liberal leaders have backed the 39-year-old Gillum over a crowded field of viable candidates, convinced his voice represents the party’s future in America’s largest swing state in presidential elections.

Billionaire philanthropists Tom Steyer and George Soros are pouring extraordinary manpower and money - each committing about $1 million so far - into Gillum’s campaign ahead of Florida’s nominating contests for governor on Aug. 28. Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who appealed to party progressives in his unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid, also endorsed Gillum.

Florida “deserves to hear what we think is a really important voice and a very progressive voice about how this country can move forward,” Steyer said in a telephone interview.

The outside intervention is turning the race into a marquee test of divisions among Democrats still searching for a winning strategy against President Donald Trump’s Republican Party as they seek to deliver a punishing blow in November’s midterm elections.

(more)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-florida/who-are-we-big-donors-battle-for-democrats-future-in-florida-idUSKBN1KU14Q

As predicted the 'Old Guard Cigar Smoking Dixie Democrats' from the 60s are clashing with the New Democrat Radicals that they have indoctrinated or imported over the last several decades. I've been saying for years that the younger American Democrat socialists, and all the foreigners the Democrats have imported into the country, are not going to vote for these octogenarian old White people who currently own the Dem Party.

And they are not going to vote for some White, gay, latte-sucking, vegan, sweater wearing, so called 'intellectual' from Harvard, who only cares about illegals, transgenders, climate change, and plastic straws. These issues are nowhere close to the 'top of the list' of things most people care about, including most Democrats.

The young Democrats the Liberals built over half a century have become the Frankenstein's monster of the political scene. And the old-timey, ancient, White Democrats don't have any clue what to do about it. Their grossly inflated egos made them believe that all Leftists would always vote for them, and no one else. It never occurred to them that there could ever be anyone more radical and farther to the Left than themselves.

Welcome to the New Democrat Party.

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Reuters
Letitia Stein
AUGUST 9, 2018

SARASOTA, Fla. (Reuters) - Andrew Gillum, the son of a bus driver who became the mayor of Florida’s capital, is struggling to gain traction with voters in his bid to become the state’s first black governor.

Yet key Democratic megadonors and liberal leaders have backed the 39-year-old Gillum over a crowded field of viable candidates, convinced his voice represents the party’s future in America’s largest swing state in presidential elections.

Billionaire philanthropists Tom Steyer and George Soros are pouring extraordinary manpower and money - each committing about $1 million so far - into Gillum’s campaign ahead of Florida’s nominating contests for governor on Aug. 28. Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who appealed to party progressives in his unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid, also endorsed Gillum.

Florida “deserves to hear what we think is a really important voice and a very progressive voice about how this country can move forward,” Steyer said in a telephone interview.

The outside intervention is turning the race into a marquee test of divisions among Democrats still searching for a winning strategy against President Donald Trump’s Republican Party as they seek to deliver a punishing blow in November’s midterm elections.

(more)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-florida/who-are-we-big-donors-battle-for-democrats-future-in-florida-idUSKBN1KU14Q

As predicted the 'Old Guard Cigar Smoking Dixie Democrats' from the 60s are clashing with the New Democrat Radicals that they have indoctrinated or imported over the last several decades. I've been saying for years that the younger American Democrat socialists, and all the foreigners the Democrats have imported into the country, are not going to vote for these octogenarian old White people who currently own the Dem Party.

And they are not going to vote for some White, gay, latte-sucking, vegan, sweater wearing, so called 'intellectual' from Harvard, who only cares about illegals, transgenders, climate change, and plastic straws. These issues are nowhere close to the 'top of the list' of things most people care about, including most Democrats.

The young Democrats the Liberals built over half a century have become the Frankenstein's monster of the political scene. And the old-timey, ancient, White Democrats don't have any clue what to do about it. Their grossly inflated egos made them believe that all Leftists would always vote for them, and no one else. It never occurred to them that there could ever be anyone more radical and farther to the Left than themselves.

Welcome to the New Democrat Party.

It certainly does seem that the left is coming full circle and destroying themselves.  The mid terms are going to be very interesting indeed.