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The man who ran Bernie’s campaign says Democrats are still making the same mistakes with Democratic Socialists, and they
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Tad Devine was in a car driving from Rhode Island to Washington when he told 125 reporters that Hillary Clinton was going to lose the general election.
Key facts
- The Clinton message almost from the night that she won the Iowa caucuses—49.9 to 49.6—was her inevitability,” he recalled
- What he saw in 2016, and subsequently in not only 2020 but also 2024, Devine said, is what prompted him to write the book in the first place
- New York requires eligible voters to register at least 25 days before Election Day, but the NYACLU found that this disenfranchises young voters the most
- Tad Devine was in a car driving from Rhode Island to Washington when he told 125 reporters that Hillary Clinton was going to lose the general election
Summary
Look at Clinton’s weakness in open primaries, where independents could cross over and vote, Devine said. “I said on that phone call that I thought Hillary Clinton was a weak candidate in the general election,” he told Fortune. Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Hampshire. A decade later, he’s written a book about it, called How the Democrats Screwed Bernie, out July 7.