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JT45242

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22. Vote totals 16.9 million to 13.2 million ; 55 percent to 43

Reply to intheflow (Reply #21)

Fri May 8, 2026, 03:42 PM

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Your feelings may have been hurt but it was not the superdelegate total or anything else. She won the primaries.

She beat him. She would have won the general election if the Russians hadn't manipulated Bernie Bros and large portions of the African American community to either vote third party or stay home.

She supported those policies I listed above.

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