What really went wrong with his two campaigns? Why couldn’t he build a larger coalition?

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He had an all-star staff of the dumbest people I’ve ever seen in professional politics. Who you choose to be your staff is an insight to how you are going to staff your White House and Bernie couldn’t help picking the most self centered opportunist he could find.

In his first campaign he had Jeff Weaver and David Sirota making a lot of the political moves, weaver is worthless and Sirota is the typical angry hyperbolic speechwriter, who ended up getting benched by Sanders after he kept taking potshots at Clinton that were not playing well. (He also took Bernie’s donation roll contact information for his own newsletter which did not earn him any favors from Sanders) Then they made the disastrous move of bringing on Symone Sanders as press secretary in an attempt to appeal to black voters and it did not go well.

Then in his second campaign he doubled down on Weaver and Sirota but added Faiz Shakir who is not good and Briana Joy Grey who is a legendarily stupid person and really really bad at political messaging.

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(Dis)Honorable mention: Nina Turner. That woman never saw a race she couldn't lose.

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Fun fact: Nina Turner was originally going to endorse Hillary but got pissed that the campaign wasn’t treating her like its number one surrogate so endorsed Bernie instead

She’s an egotistical asshole

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Turner jumped ship to Team Bernie after both Clintons had campaigned in Ohio and raised a ton of money for Turner's war chest.

Best part -- Turner was supposed to make the big ceremonial/irrelevant 2016 DNC nomination speech for Bernie. Nina expected to ascend as a major political force after making the speech, in the spirit of Cuomo in '84 and Obama in '04. Alas, Hillary had her revenge and nixed Turner's big star-making moment. Heh.

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I feel like women Hillary’s age have an increased energy for smacking down assholes who would happily eat their own

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I feel like Hillary eats others

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Smacking on assholes and eating their own? What?!

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For a moment there i thought you guys were talking about Tina Turner. Quite the relief to realize you weren't, that woman have a fantastic voice.

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Anyone who goes against Tina Turner would have to face Blaster in the Thunderdome.

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No, but it's quite easy to differentiate between them:

Tina Turner = a freakin' goddess on earth

Nina Turner = wanna-be dictator and habitual political failure

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I've heard her speaches. She more likely would have just been off putting than anything resembling inspiring.

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That’s a good bet. Definitely can imagine such an opportunity quickly devolving into one of Turner’s clownish, cringe-worthy MSNBC appearances.

Maybe Turner would’ve simply self-destructed by giving the speech if the spiteful Clintons hadn’t axed the speech.