Monday, November 25, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speech writer for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  • Dear : You proudly praised and promoted your pal Donald Trump. We see you. We aren’t forgetting, no matter how much money you spend to try to buy the election.
  • Some good news: when we elect president, his Workplace Democracy Act will outlaw anti-union “right to work” laws across the entire country
  •   Retweeted
    "Even as acceptance of global warming has grown among Republican voters, Republican lawmakers, seemingly enabled by Trump’s outlandish positions, have only grown more opposed to taking action on climate change."
  •   Retweeted
    Bernie has a better chance of winning the presidency as of 11/25/2019 than Trump had as of 11/25/2015.
  • Mike Bloomberg isn't running against his longtime pal Donald Trump -- Bloomberg is running a campaign narrowly focused on trying to destroy Bernie Sanders, now that Bernie is surging in the polls. Pass it on.
  • Let's be clear: isn't running because he suddenly doesn't like his longtime pal - Bloomberg is running because he sees the surge in the polls & he's trying to help his fellow billionaires crush our movement.
  • Morning Consult's new early state tracking poll results as of 11/25, as compared to its same poll on 10/14: 1. Biden 26% (-5) 2. Bernie 23% (+9) 3. Warren 18% (-1) 4. Steyer 9% (-1) 5. Buttigieg 8% (+2) 6. Yang 4% (+4) 7. Harris 2% (-3)
  • BIG NEWS: Morning Consult's new poll shows that since October, has now gained 9 POINTS in early primary states. That includes a 5 point boost since the last debate. Bernie is now at 23% -- just 3 points behind Biden. Some more news: We're gonna win.
  •   Retweeted
    Post-Deabte New Hampshire / Poll Sanders 16% Warren 14% Buttigieg 13% Biden 12% Gabbard 6% Yang 4% Harris 3% Booker/Steyer 2% Klobuchar/Patrick 1%
  •   Retweeted
    NYT: “Now Mr. Sanders, 78, is running on a nearly identical platform, a greatest hits of his progressive policy items, many of which have been adopted by his rivals.” ALSO NYT: runs a story about how Bernie's recently released Green New Deal is too ambitious, cites Pete advisor
  • 1993: Clinton promises everyone will be “guarantee(d) a comprehensive package of benefits over the course of an entire lifetime” 2003: Obama says he supports single-payer 2018: Obama touts Medicare for All
  • Investment banker — whose firm works for health care companies — thinks guaranteeing health care “walks away from” traditional values.
  • 7 months ago, the NY Times reported on big donors frantically looking for a candidate to destroy . They’ve now found their guy: , Donald Trump’s longtime pal.
  • For months, billionaires have been frantically working to try to stop . Now that Bernie is surging in the polls, they have found their candidate: -- a longtime pal of Donald Trump who is trying to buy the Democratic primary.
  • Here are the clues that tell us that is not really running against his pal Donald Trump - Bloomberg & the billionaire class are primarily focused on one mission: defeating & the working-class movement behind Bernie's campaign.
  • Repeating what I said yesterday: Bloomberg’s candidacy unfortunately puts journalists in a tough spot — they know he doesn’t want bad coverage, and they know he controls a large slice of a shrinking media job market. It’s a bummer for reporters & not a good dynamic for democracy.
  • Bezos & his preferred presidential candidate are together worth $163 billion. They could choose to use that wealth to eliminate all $81 billion of medical debt in America & they’d still have $82 billion left over for themselves. But they choose not to do that.
  •   Retweeted
    What this group is lobbying for: 1. Hundreds of thousands of medical bankruptcies 2. Insulin costing 10X what it does in Canada 3. Tens of thousands of deaths each year There is a word for people who dedicate their lives to causes like this.
  • STUDY: “Relative to entirely white neighborhoods, residents of entirely black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and were 74% more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place.”