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News & Current Events Mar 31, 2026 at 12:24 AM

Democrats accuse Dem Senate candidate of being a GOP plant over his past support for the president

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Democrats accuse Dem Senate candidate of being a GOP plant over his past support for the president - LGBTQ Nation
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Democrats accuse Dem Senate candidate of being a GOP plant over his past support for the president - LGBTQ Nation
He couldn't name a Democrat he actually voted for but insists he's a lifelong Democrat... who opposes abortion, racial equality, "cultural Marxism"....

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fitnessexpress Mar 31, 2026 +2291
There is no controversy. He's absolutely a plant, and everyone knows it.  Here is a video going over the situation: https://youtu.be/fwT96Hma2iQ Basically the the senate race in Nebraska is going to be really close between Ricketts (R) and Osborn (Independent). The Democrats have no chance and don't want to peel votes away from Osborn, since even 3% of Osborn supporters voting Democrat would be enough to guarantee a Republican victory.  So the Democrats didn't run anyone. Ricketts took advantage and got one of his stooges to run in the Democratic primary--figuring he'd win unopposed and the Dems wouldn't be able to remove him from the ballot. Just having a Dem name would draw away enough votes to sink Osborn. Thankfully Cindy Burbank stepped up to run for the Dems at the last minute. If she wins she'll step down and remove her name from the general ballot so Osborn has the best shot to unseat the Republican and screw the GOP Senate majority.  Cindy was actually taken off the ballot by the Nebraska Secretary of State on the grounds that she wasn't a good faith candidate, after complaints by the GOP. But luckily the Nebraska Supreme court reversed the lower court decision last week and ordered her name back on the ballot. So if you want to see the Republicans lose the Senate seat, vote for Cindy Burbank. EDIT: sorry for the confusion. I mistakenly said that she was removed by the state Democrats, but she was removed by the Secretary of State of Nebraska (Robert B. Evnen a Republican) who is in charge of elections, based on a GOP complaint that she wasn't a "good faith" candidate. The Nebraska Supreme Court overturned it and put her back on the ballot, since the GOP complaint was filed too late (outside the 7-day statutory window).
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DaraParsavand Mar 31, 2026 +262
Thanks for the clear summary (I read the article too). What a depressing development. There is a guy (Les Leopold) who writes on Common Dreams a bunch about the potential for more independent runs by people like Osborn in other states where the Democratic party is not competitive and they know it. I always worried this strategy wouldn't work as I know about Osborn's past run and of course Bernie's many runs with Democrats somehow not getting in the way, but I never thought of the problem of the Republican getting in the way. I just figured the Democrats wouldn't be willing to stay away indefinitely but this is a bigger problem. The obvious solution for House and Senate races is for all states to follow Maine and Alaska's lead and use RCV with at least 4 candidates and that way the independent and Democrat can cross endorse each other. But it seems our country's uptake on modern voting ideas is pretty pathetic. My state (CA) is one of the worst - we may even get 2 Republicans running against each other for governor this year.
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +50
Bernie usually wins the Democratic Primary and then runs on an independent ticket in the general
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DaraParsavand Mar 31, 2026 +3
Where did you see that? I don't believe he has ever even once run in the Democratic primary besides the two runs for president. See Wikipedia for a list of elections. I didn't check them all, but those I did were consistent with my claim.
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +4
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral\_history\_of\_Bernie\_Sanders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Bernie_Sanders) before general election it shows the Democratic Primaries
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DaraParsavand Mar 31, 2026 +5
That's where I looked. Besides president when did he run as a Democrat? You see all those times he didn't right?
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +5
What elections did you look at? 2006 onwards it shows him winning the Democratic Primaries for Senate, then in the general he runs on an independent ticket. And 1994 is the first House primary he won
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DaraParsavand Mar 31, 2026 +2
OK, I see I was wrong now. I had initially looked at earlier elections as mayor and up through the House. I saw he was listed in the Democratic Primary in these House elections, but only as a write in and I don't know Vermont law at all so I didn't know if that means he had to register as a Democratic candidate write in or not. Sometimes he won those, sometimes he lost. In the Senate races starting in 2006, he clearly did run as a (non write-in) normal Democratic candidate in the primary. (Wikipedia left out the 2024 D primary for Senate but I assume he was in it and won it). I am surprised the Democratic party is OK with this strategy of Bernie running as a Democrat and then as an indpendent. I wasn't that surprised for the President runs that he ran in that primary as he was absolutely going to be running as a Democrat in the general had he won in 2016 or 2020. Thanks for being polite about showing me my error.
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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 31, 2026 +3
So there's a quirk in that some states you can win nominations from multiple parties. New York even allows you to gain votes from any given "line" such that you might vote for AOC on the "Workers and Families Party" line and it still counts along with votes on the "Democratic Party" line. And ultimately, the Democratic party wants to win elections, and exercise political power to get things done, and that's more important to them even than whether Sanders wants a D or an I next to his name. He caucuses with them, supports them for Senate control, and is generally a far more reliable vote than even some (supposedly) "100%" Democrats.
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +2
Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure this was raised as a topic back during the 2016 Democratic Primaries whether he'd run as (I) in the general. I think Hillary raised this point in one of the debates?
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cballowe Mar 31, 2026 +62
Don't the Democrats have a say in who appears on their nomination ballot or whether they acknowledge someone as a member of the party? Seems weird to be able to plant someone on a ballot without going through all the levels of the state party - without that endorsement it seems like he'd be an independent?
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Pol_Potamus Mar 31, 2026 +91
Unfortunately, if you give the party officials this power, you run the risk that they'll use it to keep anyone who doesn't kowtow to the party establishment off the ballot.
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ReklisAbandon Mar 31, 2026 -1
According to listnook they already have this power and they use it to keep whatever their preferred candidate is off the ballot, despite losing by millions of actual votes.
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zeekayz Mar 31, 2026 +12
They do control endorsements and DNC funding, not who runs. Way easier to run with an extra $50 mil and an Obama endorsement.
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apparition13 Mar 31, 2026 +5
They used to, but the party reforms of 1968 reduced the power of the parties. This had good and bad effect. Good: the "old boys in smoke filled back rooms" no longer decide who is running, so women and minorities have more of a chance than they did in before 1968. Bad: the "old boys in smoke filled rooms" no longer decide who is running, so people who don't play by the rules, like Trump, can run. The old boys wouldn't have allowed him anywhere near a presidential run if he hadn't been playing the game and proving himself to be a good republican for a couple decades at least. Personally I think the reforms were a mistake. Equity would have happened in the last 56 years, though not as quickly, since changes in society would have pushed women and minorities into positions of influence anyway and politics would eventually reflect that as the old boys die off and get replace by old boys and gals, without losing the benefits of tighter party control limiting candidates to those who have proved themselves to the party. But there's no way to prove that without a time machine.
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7figureipo Mar 31, 2026 +18
This is a consequence of the competing forces of both parties playing legislative games to reinforce the two-party system and of not wanting to pay for their own primary contests.
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Traditional_Sign4941 Mar 31, 2026 +17
> Cindy was actually taken off the ballot by the Nebraska Secretary of State on the grounds that she wasn't a good faith candidate Ah yes but the Republican plant was totally a good faith candidate...
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GameDrain Mar 31, 2026 +13
One correction, she was removed by an election official and returned on the ballot by the supreme Court, state Democrats didn't remove her.
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Mayweather2025 Mar 31, 2026 +10
Excellent summary. Thank you. Republicans being scared of losing a Nebraska Senate Race really puts in perspective that anything is on the table this election cycle. Democrats can win anywhere.
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nofzac Mar 31, 2026 +3
This is happening in Colorado too - In Lauren Boeberts Congressional district. Eileen Laubacher is a two time Trump supporter who just changed her party affiliation to run for this seat and is raising tons of money. This is widespread and everyone needs to do their vetting and spread the word!
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AlexRyang Mar 31, 2026 +14
The Nebraska Secretary of State has removed Cindy Burbank from the primary ballot for not filing in time, to note.
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Polenball Mar 31, 2026 +22
They put her back a week ago, it seems?
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Polar_Vortx Mar 31, 2026 +6
Can they not just nominate Osborn as the Dem candidate as well?
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admiraltarkin Mar 31, 2026 +60
No. Dem = scary = loss The only way to win is to win as an independent
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 +30
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admiraltarkin Mar 31, 2026 +9
I remain convinced that Beto's strategy of going everywhere is essential. No, you're not going to win the ruby red area, but losing it by 30 is better than losing by 50. From there, run up the margins in the cities and suburbs to eek out a win
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fiercedeitysponce Mar 31, 2026 +5
Why not take the Bernie Sanders approach and run in the primary, then reject the nomination to run independent, avoiding this exact scenario? Might even give some of the voters a “he rejected the Democratic Party” narrative, which may be stretching the truth but might still poll well with disappointed conservatives.
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Polar_Vortx Mar 31, 2026 +2
Ah okay I was thinking something similar to how Mamdani was both the Dem and DSA candidate
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AoEFreak Mar 31, 2026 +1
I could be wrong on this, but I believe that Mamdani being the DSA candidate just means that they endorsed him. I don't believe that the DSA actually run candidates as a separate political party like Democrats and Republicans do.
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Plow_King Mar 31, 2026 +6
thanks for the detailed breakdown!
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Killersavage Mar 31, 2026 +2
I mean if they’ll allow one bad faith candidate why wouldn’t they allow another. Shame that our politics have even come to this.
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IsaacsIssac Mar 31, 2026 +1
Ironic. GOP runs bad faith candidate to secure a seat. Democrats say ok fair we will do it too. GOP has a meltdown and cries fowl play. Incredible.
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cyxrus Mar 31, 2026 +1
This was an extremely confusing post to read. So is it good or bad they added her back to the ballet?
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HJWalsh Mar 31, 2026 +1
Good.
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caitnicrun Mar 31, 2026 +1486
- He couldn’t name a Democrat he actually voted for but insists he’s a lifelong Democrat… who opposes abortion, racial equality, “cultural Marxism”…. Fukk right off.
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BLU3SKU1L Mar 31, 2026 +239
Absolutely no democrat is going to use the phrase "Cultural Marxism". Not even the Social Anarchists used to throw that term around, and they wanted community groups with well defined and diverse social roles to be stronger than the federal government.
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buttbuttlolbuttbutt Mar 31, 2026 +44
There are some words that, when yiu see/hear them, you immediately know they arent who they say they are. Like the three fingers scene from Inglorious Bastards.
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WhatIsLoveMeDo Mar 31, 2026 +19
Barack HUSSEIN Obama. 
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buttbuttlolbuttbutt Mar 31, 2026 +11
Whats fun to do, is find someone who watches fox news too much, and used the trigger phrases, Obama, Transgender, Hillary, etc, and watch them repeat the TVs argument like a good little puppet. Wait til they do two, then poi t out they repeated it like a good puppy, every time you bring it up. They'll recall the now moment, and one other, and it angers and frustrate them, so you leave them alone with those emotions. The brain will skip steps, and imstead of the argument, the brain will skip to the unsettled anger feelings.
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +4
Spent '08 working his campaign in Indiana. God, I heard that so much. Though we did flip the state, so it was pretty surreal--the Pod Save America guys talk about knocking doors and hearing people shout "I'm voting for the \[n-word\]!" Got a lot of that. Also, getting so many flashbacks now in 2026 with how people are fearmongering about "Hasan Piker" with the exact same sneer that they put on "Barack *Hussein* Obama". And how it's being overwhelmingly deployed against brown Muslim leftist candidates. The Andrew Cuomo playbook is apparently very popular among the consultant/leadership class on both sides. Thank god it travels like wet tissue paper with actual human beings.
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ErusTenebre Mar 31, 2026 +239
Cultural Marxism lol ok
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xKILLBILLIONAIRESx Mar 31, 2026 +109
Cultural Marxism: the right-wing catch-all for "in case I forgot something gay or progressive or woman" So basically all things even vaguely left of the extreme far right.
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rainator Mar 31, 2026 +47
Cultural Marxism is a lazy rewording of cultural Bolshevism which is a literal Nazi conspiracy theory. As in actual German Nazis from the 1930s and 1940s…
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dawidowmaka Mar 31, 2026 +46
The venn diagram of Democrats and unironic users of the phrase "Cultural Marxism" is two untouching circles
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A_Rogue_GAI Mar 31, 2026 +34
And of course his opponent is a Republican named for a debilitating nutritional deficiency.
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rogueciridae Mar 31, 2026 +11
He’s a billionaire’s son with crooked teeth. That’s what gets me. I mean yeah, he’s an evil Trump-humping piece of shit who bought his Senate seat, but he couldn’t handle a year or two of orthodontia? No one told him politics might be easier if he didn’t look like a walking snaggle-toothed p****?
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YouWereBrained Mar 31, 2026 +31
Buzzwords
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Winged_Metal Mar 31, 2026 +3
What is the point of running democrat to attempt to be a plant and then saying these as his talking points instead of* just pretending to be full democrat and then take the mask off after the elections are over? (Edit typo*)
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Duel2Duel Mar 31, 2026 +5
Guess he doesn't feel a need to go that far. Even if he got it and got 3-5% of the vote, thatd still make a big difference in a close race.
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InevitableAvalanche Mar 31, 2026 +2
They aren't smart enough to be able to emulate a decent person.
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kochredahik Mar 31, 2026 +234
Good. We don't want anyone who EVER supported the monster in the White House at ANY point in their political career.
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Deto Mar 31, 2026 +72
I will never trust the moral judgement of anyone who has ever supported Trump.
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yes_u_suckk Mar 31, 2026 +18
Yep, reminds a co-worker that said recently how he doesn't support Trump now due to all the shit he's doing, but he supported him on his first term. Yeah, because Trump was apparently a great president the first time, right? /s
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +2
Exactly! Unfortunately, there's one in the Senate Minority Leader position.
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 +5
Chuck Schumer? What are you talking about?
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +16
Trump endorsed Cuomo. Schumer supported the Trump candidate over the official Dem candidate for one of the most powerful positions in the country. And for Andrew F****** Cuomo.
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Paqza Mar 31, 2026 +9
Schumer is also pro-genocide
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 -2
Yes. His flaws are many. That man should be in prison and it's utterly humiliating to wake up every day and remember that monstruous PoS is the head of our party with no visible opposition.
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 -3
Prison? You need to calm down.
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Paqza Mar 31, 2026 -1
Do you also support funding genocide / equipment used in genocide?
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 +1
Are you saying that is Chuck Schumer’s decision to make alone? Do you have any idea what else is going on in the world?
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +2
Do you think that "I wasn't the only one involved" is a great defense for aggressively driving what could become the holocaust of our time, judging by the Greater Israel expansion plans? Every single day, we get a better and better idea of how historical atrocities happened. Turns out, people just allowed them to happen while handwaving the bad. I'm sure in \~30 years, everyone totally will have been against this in the 2020s.
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 -1
Okay, so what do you think the punishment should be for mass murder and treason? Brown Muslim deaths still count, despite what our party is telling you. Plus Schumer is likely one of the worse traitors in US history, if you trust his own words.
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 +1
Why are you trying to single out Schumer and none of the Republicans trying to start a holy war? They control government. Schumer is 1 vote in 1/2 of the legislative body.
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +1
On the treason bit or on the murder bit? Because I hate them *all* for murder and regularly call my congresspeople pushing to have Hegseth on death row. My rep is a Republican and I'm pretty sure their staff has me down as a harmless local eccentric at this point, but wtf else can I do? As for the treason bit, Schumer is one of the only ones stupid enough to get up on stage and repeatedly brag about his treason. He confesses continuously. And he takes pride in his own confession, as you can see. That makes it real easy. The others have enough brain cells to recognize that maybe a US elected official shouldn't say it's literally their job to funnel taxpayer funds to a state that's bombing US allies, murdering US citizens, murdering journalists, murdering hundreds of thousands of children, and attacking the US constitution to prevent any of us from criticizing this madness. And if we're talking about Iran in general, Schumer has been working hard *against* Dem diplomacy on Iran for ages. So yeah, he did everything within his power to bring this timeline about--though I'm sure he'd be much happier if we weren't losing the war badly.
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 -6
🙄 You think Chuck Schumer is responsible for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians? I think that’s greatly overstating Chuck Schumer’s effectiveness. He has trouble accomplishing things in the US Senate as a senator. You think he controls Israel.
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fkootrsdvjklyra Mar 31, 2026 +6
"Pro-genocide" is not the same thing as "responsible for genocide"
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +2
It is when you rallied support for the bombs, voted for the bombs, and keep getting up on stage saying it is your "job to give Israel all the aid it needs". No, sir, you are a US Senator. Your job is not delivering taxpayer funds to a foreign state that keeps bombing US allies, murdering US citizens, murdering journalists, murdering hundreds of thousands of children, and actively attacking the US constitution to prevent any criticism of this deviancy.
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Paqza Mar 31, 2026 +1
Re-read what I wrote and get back to us.
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happyColoradoDave Mar 31, 2026 -1
Were you talking about a different genocide?
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ultradav24 Mar 31, 2026 -2
Schumer never supported Cuomo - where does this myth come from?
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westgazer Mar 31, 2026 -4
Never supported him? He may not have directly endorsed him in 2025 (and also refused to endorse Mamdani) but he certainly has supported and endorsed Cuomo in the past.
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ultradav24 Mar 31, 2026
The person said he supported a person endorsed by Trump… Cuomo wasn’t endorsed by Trump in the past. Schumer didn’t support Cuomo last year either - in fact he made more supportive comments about Mamdani than he did about Cuomo including calling him to congratulate him. I don’t recall him saying anything about Cuomo last year
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westgazer Mar 31, 2026 +1
Okay but someone claimed that Schumer has never endorsed Cuomo. He didn’t endorse him this time around but he absolutely endorsed him in 2018, which is not never.
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +1
>Schumer didn’t support Cuomo last year either - in fact he made more supportive comments about Mamdani than he did about Cuomo including calling him to congratulate him. Are you kidding me? I literally live in Brooklyn not that far from Schumer and this is some insane gaslighting/revisionism about the NYC mayoral election.
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NewSauerKraus Mar 31, 2026
Same with anyone who gets Nazi SS tattoos and doesn't cover them until two decades later when they decide to run as a Democrat.
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timoumd Mar 31, 2026 -4
I mean I'd accept someone who supported him on the reform party because that was forever ago and the crazy was less public
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Jedimaster996 Mar 31, 2026 +10
There's literally never been a moment he hasn't been nuts. Are we really that fast to forget his initial campaign of "lock her up", "build the wall", and running on promises that'd make a junior high president electorate blush?  I can excuse the average American for the first, by a razor-thin margin because most Americans are uneducated & ignorant who don't do any research.  I won't give that same grace to someone running for any level of government because I'd expect someone to be of somewhat competent mental faculties & character if they're going to be in charge of important offices in power. 
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Scott5114 Mar 31, 2026 +5
The person you're replying to is referring to [his Reform Party campaign in 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign), which was 16 years before "lock her up" or "build the wall". He dropped out of that campaign after three months, issuing this statement: > So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman—Mr. Duke, a Neo-Nazi—Mr. Buchanan, and a Communist—Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep. ...Which is an extremely weird thing to imagine Trump saying, but apparently 26 years ago he knew how to at least pretend to be a reasonable adult. Sometime between then and 2016 he gave up on that.
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Sminahin Mar 31, 2026 +1
>...Which is an extremely weird thing to imagine Trump saying, but apparently 26 years ago he knew how to at least pretend to be a reasonable adult. Sometime between then and 2016 he gave up on that. He never really pretended. He was just a less high-profile political figure so his madness wasn't on full display. Remember the Central Park 5 and when Trump went full Klanmode over them?
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timoumd Mar 31, 2026 +3
His Reform party run was way before "lock her up" and he was trying to ride the coat tails of Ross Perot.  Still idiotic populism, but less malicious and also I can see a lot of personal growth for our hypothetical candidate over 3 decades.
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MatthewSWFL229 Mar 31, 2026 +250
Pulling a Fetterman i see
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UngodlyPain Mar 31, 2026 +119
Fetterman wasn't a plant, he had a solid record and such unlike this phoney... He just also had a stroke during the general election.
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elconquistador1985 Mar 31, 2026 +135
He didn't have a solid record. There were skeletons in his closet that were overlooked because "big cool guy, wears sweatpants, flies rainbow flag".
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Sweet-Neck6619 Mar 31, 2026 +102
And his opponent was oz
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MrRoma Mar 31, 2026 +9
There was a primary before he ran against Oz
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UngodlyPain Mar 31, 2026 +79
He was a mayor and LT governor for years as a Dem in both positions. He had literally 1 grey/orange/etc flag with the jogger incident, that was obviously a poor choice on his part, but not the end of the world. You're being pretty reductionist, with just saying "swear pants and rainbow flag" as if that's all it takes.
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cwk415 Mar 31, 2026 +9
You are correct. He switched after his brain broke. 
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flypirat Mar 31, 2026 +2
Could you explain how the jogger incident was a **grey** flag?
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alabasterskim Mar 31, 2026 +20
He wasn't a plant. He was a piece of shit for the love of the game.
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UngodlyPain Mar 31, 2026 +21
Unfortunately he's a living case study of brain damage causing conservatism.
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peipei222 Mar 31, 2026 -4
He was always a conservative
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Avid_Reader87 Mar 31, 2026 +1
That’s just his PR team spinning his switch.
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Sir_Vexer Mar 31, 2026 -11
Uh huh sure
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UngodlyPain Mar 31, 2026 +6
Care to elaborate at all?
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RLewis8888 Mar 31, 2026 +61
So he talks about how he hates Trump, but supports all his policies. Pretty much text-book Republican.
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Holiday-Age6347 Mar 31, 2026 +28
i mean, just looking at the picture, I believe it 100%
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M4MRDR187 Mar 31, 2026 +21
Don't even give this dipshit dweeb the time of day...
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ThistleroseTea Mar 31, 2026 +34
>CNN looked into Forbes’ background. He posted several sermons to Facebook, where he railed against “cultural Marxism” (an antisemitic dog whistle), “radical feminism,” and the “left-wing media.” He attacked Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protestors and praised Republicans for restricting abortion. He also referred to former President Joe Biden as “Dementia Joe.” >Forbes told CNN he has voted for the current president in several elections but insisted that he’s a lifelong Democrat. He was unable to name a single Democrat he had ever voted for but said that he’s a “free thinker” and “not a clone,” which is why he has a history of attending events sponsored by the state Republican Party.
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alabasterskim Mar 31, 2026 +21
He's a plant, and it's gonna be tough, but I think Osborn can sway people.
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CantankerousRabbit Mar 31, 2026 +6
lol he even looks like one lol
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syynapt1k Mar 31, 2026 +4
The GOP are going to lean into this tactic. I have serious concerns about Graham Plantner in Maine as well.
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takoko Mar 31, 2026 +7
I live here, and I don’t. Maine is too small a state, with a pretty non-transient population. There’s usually 1 degree of separation (2 at most) from one person to any other person in the state. Had he been a member of the high school republicans… we’d know. He has full union endorsement and was working with Acadia Action (a grassroots, very left/progressive group) well before he was recruited by a combo of union and Bernie backers. He’s also not just running, he’s building networks of progressives all over the state first to support his campaign, but also other progressive groups and each other. His campaign was instrumental in defeating a voter suppression ballot initiative on the November ballot. Every progressive activist I know is working to get him elected. Will they succeed… yet to be seen, but the dude is no Fetterman.
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Memitim Mar 31, 2026 +5
Naturally. Conservatives have nothing to offer of value, so expect even more corruption, betrayal, and deception. Lies and hate are all they have.
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Mr402TheSouthSioux Mar 31, 2026 +4
Nebraska like a lot of GOP supermajority states are nothing but cronyism and corruption.
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ashandrien Mar 31, 2026 +11
John Fetterman?
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ArtisticActuary1484 Mar 31, 2026 +3
For a minute there I thought they meant John fetterman
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Intolerance-Paradox Mar 31, 2026 +14
>Conservative pastor That’s not a thing. We can dispense with the euphemisms and just say Nazi
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ReleaseTheSheast Mar 31, 2026 +6
Expect to see more and more of this
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MoonChainer Mar 31, 2026 +7
It's time we go scorched earth on conservative politics altogether.
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AKraiderfan Mar 31, 2026 +2
Not a single person from a left persuasion uses the term “free thinker” to describe themselves.
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Mrgrayj_121 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Is fetterman from pa one cause at this point he is one to me
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OnionPastor Mar 31, 2026 +1
Different situations as the plant running in Nebraska has no intention of winning and is there to prevent the independent candidate from winning entirely. The actual dem party wasn’t running anyone to support the independent candidate until this point where they are now running a respected candidate against the plant. The respected candidate has promised to drop out after defeating the plant in the primary, leaving the election to the independent who has a real chance of winning and the Republican.
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Mbaker1201 Mar 31, 2026 +2
He is not the first, will not be the last to do this!
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Im_Ashe_Man Mar 31, 2026 +2
Throw this scumbag out of the race.
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Slight_Glove1785 Mar 31, 2026 +2
We live in the dumbest timeline.
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PhlebotinumEddie Mar 31, 2026 +2
Dude could ironically end up being a spoiler for the GOP candidate causing Osborn to win.
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hackingdreams Mar 31, 2026 +2
We already know they're capable of it - look at what they did in North Carolina, for starters. We know this guy is absolutely tainted. The party should eject his ass.
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OnionPastor Mar 31, 2026 +1
The party has nothing to do with it. The candidate filed with state election boards as a a democrat.
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W031zMe Mar 31, 2026 +2
WTF, dems? Have you not heard of vetting? Every aspect of every person’s life is out there for anybody to find. Do your f****** homework!
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HaxanWriter Mar 31, 2026 +5
Democrats need to learn how to vet their f****** candidates.
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pfannkuchen89 Mar 31, 2026 +3
You know that they can’t stop him from running for election, right? All he had to do was file with the state election board. The state Democratic Party can’t stop him from running or from labeling himself as a democrat.
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QuietCola-Roaster Mar 31, 2026 +3
Sinema, Manchin, Fetterman… the twits just keep on coming…
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OnionPastor Mar 31, 2026 +1
Did you just not read the article at all?
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minus_minus Mar 31, 2026 +5
Sadly this is what the democrats reap for giving up on states that used to vote for Dems. I live in Illinois and we still get republicans running for statewide office every election. They usually lose badly but not every time. 
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +8
Osborne got 47% last election. Much higher than a Dem would get. Why take votes away from him?
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minus_minus Mar 31, 2026
The enemy gets a vote. Having given up on running a dem opens up the process to these shenanigans. 
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da2Pakaveli Mar 31, 2026 +3
They should've just held a faux primary and then have the nominee drop out
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minus_minus Mar 31, 2026
Or … they could have spent the past decade trying to make inroads where they aren’t yet competitive instead of throwing up their hands and walking away. 
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cwk415 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Conservatives proving *once again* that they are pathologically dishonest, and are completely incapable of winning without lying/cheating. 
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misterlabowski Mar 31, 2026 +1
Corny ahh mfer
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kanokari Mar 31, 2026 +1
There needs to be penalties for plants and people like Sinema
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D1scoLemonaid Mar 31, 2026 +1
People have done this successfully in my county twice in two recent elections. They both ran as Democrat and as soon as they either won their primary or won the election they changed their entire tune. It's infuriating and dirty. We're stuck without representation and gerrymandered further into a hole. know I am begging to the wrong people but Please do your own due diligence and not vote solely by the D or R by their name. Please don't vote for any turncoat. There is no reason someone should be trying for an office they know nothing about after completely changing their viewpoints. They can start with everyone else and work with the party they're claiming to be obviously brand new to... They need to show not tell.
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beadzy Mar 31, 2026 +1
hey he and fetterman must be bff
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Basicyeti837 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Republicans running as Trojan democrats will likely become a trend very soon, unfortunately. Democrats need to be vigilant.
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Jayco424 Mar 31, 2026 +1
This sounds like a recipe for mass insubordination if not full blown mutiny from what is the World's most premier fighting force. Like this is **advanced stupid** like I'm sure children and the average "not the brightest" person could tell you pissing off the people with guns who you just trained to be super killers is a bad idea.
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TheCoyotl Apr 1, 2026 +1
There are a lot more gop plants like him in the Democratic Party.
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Big_Truck Mar 31, 2026
Is it shady that a Repub is running as a D to dilute votes? Sure. However, Dems needs to figure out how to fix their reputation son that a blue D next to your name doesn’t make you fully unelectable in roughly half of US states. While the GOP can always steal a race in a blue state every so often, Dems almost never steal a statewide race in a red state. The national branding of Dems is in the toilet. And the Dem leadership seems to be doing precisely nothing to change that.
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athornton79 Mar 31, 2026 +7
Sadly, the only way to change that is by new laws. The 'branding' that equates Dems with something worse than what you scrap off your shoe is reinforced and repeated endlessly on the media controlled and dominated by Republican supporting billionaires. Fox News is practically a brain washing and propaganda network. Nothing bad about Dear Leader can be spoken. All ills are acknowledged as due to the 'liberals'. With DECADES of such narrative, you have whole chunks of the population that have been indoctrinated with that way of thinking. You can't just "rebrand" and suddenly fix your image. When it has been actively attacked for decades under the guise of 'news' and 'opinion', its not something that can be overcome so easily. How DO you fix it? Bust up the mega-media corporations that dominate and control the networks. Stricter guidelines on what can be considered "news" versus "entertainment". Fox News, as a prime example, has enjoyed the benefit of being viewed as a NEWS organization for years. In court, however, they've always gone with the defense of being "an entertainment network" which only has "real news at specific hours". Yes, there are serious first amendment concerns in any restrictions that might be considered, but at the very least, busting up the control so a handful of billionaires can't dictate how things run across the board. We used to have anti-monopoly laws that actually were enforced.. regulatory capture has done its job in that regard.
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Brigadius Mar 31, 2026
What's the legality on this? Running as an opposition party.
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JustARandomDrunkGuy Mar 31, 2026 +4
It’s literally just politics, nothing illegal about this at all, in fact it’s good that there’s no laws against it as it can be easily abused. Make sure to tell people to vote Burbank in the primary as she will drop out after winning to give Osborne the best chance, that’s the only reason she is running there.
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Justaregard Mar 31, 2026
Here is different plan….if the Iran war is about protecting the US long term then let’s nationalize all the weapons manufacturers and then the cost of weapons go down because we wouldn’t need them to make a profit or give shareholders anything until the war is over and we return them to private company status.
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vikingblood63 Mar 31, 2026 -2
He’s an old school Democrat like Biden and Byrd !
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rp2784 Mar 31, 2026 -3
Yet another distraction! Release the Epstein files!
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iplaybassok89 Mar 31, 2026 +2
Not everything that happens is a distraction for that lol. Or is this the new thing everyone here just parrots over and over and over again whether it’s relevant or not
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FantasticWeather4362 Mar 31, 2026 -16
Democrats baffled by man's patriotism. Fixed the headline for you!
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