My Take on the Democratic Primary So Far

This Democratic Primary has had many twists, turns, goofs, gaffes, and candidates. First we must get the background information of the election and meet the candidates. A field of 26 candidates from the start of 2019 has narrowed down to just two. From Senators, Representatives, businesspeople, Former Vice Presidents, etc. This election started so long ago with the announcement of Donald Trump on the first day of his presidency, and then the announcement of the first two major Democratic candidates John Delaney and Andrew Yang, and this started the democratic primary of 2020. This election started way back with Trump, Delaney, and Yang, but then the field of candidates got immensely bigger with the announcement of so many candidates. The candidates announced in this order Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary Julian Castro, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Author Marianne Williamson, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Representative Beto O’Rourke, Senator Bernie Sanders, Governor Jay Inslee, Governor John Hickenlooper, Mayor Wayne Messam, Representative Tim Ryan, Senator Mike Gravel, Representative Seth Moulton, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Michael Bennet, Governor Steve Bullock, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Representative Joe Sestak, Businessman Tom Steyer, Governor Deval Patrick, and finally Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

I know! A very long field (I apologize for the long introduction). After getting that out of the way we can get to the fun. I believe that this is democratic primary so far has been for most of the primary destructive, but towards the end it has become a time for bringing the party together and getting ready to take on Donald Trump. In the beginning especially with the start of the debates the primary became polarized, because there were lots of candidates and there was limited time for them to introduce themselves to the American people. Usually they used attacks or little digs that would get the American people to visit their website and the media to talk about them for the next couple of days. There were digs like Senator Kamala Harris saying, “Vice President Biden that little girl was me.” or Cory Booker talking about Vice President Biden’s stance on Marijauana, “I thought you were high when you said it.” Attacks like that do not help our parties chances in 2020. They only polarize us and it allows Donald Trump to use those same attacks, but in the General Election.

Then the field narrowed rapidly with dropout after dropout, and we now knew who the major candidates were. Then the primaries rolled around and we had the major frontrunners arose after Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Senator Amy Klobuchar. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed to be on the campaign chopping block. Then Former Vice President Biden’s Campaign rose from the dead like Frankenstein after the South Carolina Primary.

This is when in my opinion the primary came together as two factions; The Moderates and the Progressives. The Moderate candidates rallied behind one candidate after Super Tuesday, and that was Joe Biden. Then the Progressives rallied behind Bernie Sanders (Even though Elizabeth Warren never truly endorsed Bernie Sanders). The two factions fought against each other, but soon Former Vice President Biden would take a large delegate lead.

There is definitely still a large rift in the Democratic Primary. The Bernie Sanders supporters are saying if Bernie is not the Democratic Nominee then they will not vote in the 2020 Presidential Election, which only helps Donald Trump. Former Vice President Biden is trying to bring the Bernie Supporters into his campaign. Biden is adopting two progressive candidates plans like Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Bankruptcy plan, and taking Sanders’ plan of making public colleges and universities free for people who make under $125,000. Things like that is Joe Biden’s attempt to bring the young progressive and determined voters onto his, which helps unify our great party.

As Democrats we must be unified to fight the biggest threat to our nation, which is President Donald J. Trump. As democrats, whether progressive or moderate, whether a conservative democrat or a liberal one, a christian one or any other faith, or anything else we are all still democrats. We all believe that climate change is a crisis, that students deserve a debt forgiveness plan immediately, that we need an economy that works for all, the rich and the more fortunate should pay more in taxes, Real Gun reform, or anything else. The point is that there is more that unites us then that divides us. We are the Democratic Party of the United States of America that should mean something. The party of the people who are charismatic like John Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton. The party of the Intelligent people like Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Kennedy, and Nancy Pelosi. The party of the passionate people like Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton. We are the Democrats of the UNITED States of America. So in conclusion we need to unite around whoever our nominee is , beat the most dangerous President in our history Donald J. Trump, Retake the United States Senate, Keep the House of Representatives under our control, and get Progressive and Democratic Legislation passed to protect this Country.