Having a heart attack in the middle of a presidential campaign at age 78 is really not good. I like Bernie, voted for him in 2016, would probably vote for him again. But... let's acknowledge what just happened here
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This is from a statement put out by the campaign. A "myocardial infarction" is a heart attackpic.twitter.com/ZiQZmFAbuL
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The politicians in this country are so bad that I'd take Bernie Sanders in a coma over all of the healthy candidates.
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What’s wrong with Andrew Yang?
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you have voters who will ignore Biden mental status failing with each day. The people will not vote for Sanders were already not going to vote for him!
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If goes back to looking vigorous on the campaign trail, it shouldn't be a bit deal. If he looks visibly debilitated, then it will.
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When I got a stent (at age 47) I felt immediately invigorated. We’ll see how it affects a 78 year old
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The fact is many voters have people in their lives who have had the same or more invasive procedures and know that there is no long term health issue related to it.
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Elizabeth Warren and her future corporate donors who will make her Barack Obama 2.0 are now dancing with glee.
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This is just what people who already hate him will use as their excuse so they don't have to admit that they aren't really progressive. The people who care about policy will still vote for him. Nothing changes.
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His new YouTube promo would dispute this! Perfect timing!
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The good news is that they only waited two days to admit that he almost died
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Who would you want as Bernie's VP? That person would be at great chance of becoming POTUS. Who is most similar on foreign policy? Tulsi?
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She would clearly the best choice on foreign policy, but there is no way he could pick her, the party wouldn't accept it and he'd them on board. But anyway
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He just politically cut his own throat. He shouldn't even try and get on the trail again. And now everyone who gets chest pains before circulatory stent implants is now a heart attack victim. ( We need to be consistent here, not too much to ask.)
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Oh, come on. They measure troponin.
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Like 15 presidents have gotten sick or died in office. His VP would be a million times better anyway.
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Eisenhower also had a heart attack while president. I always say we get 100 days with Bernie he'll change the course of the country, then if he did die we'd just get his vice president, who we KNOW would be progressive.
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He would have a chance at a Dem Senate until 2022
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Yep. This is going to sink his campaign. We’ve always been able to say “Bernie’s age doesn’t matter because he’s healthy”, now we can’t.
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