{"id":13828,"date":"2020-02-04T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13828"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:33:57","slug":"dnc-mulls-asking-donald-trump-to-run-as-democrat-in-effort-to-stop-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/dnc-mulls-asking-donald-trump-to-run-as-democrat-in-effort-to-stop-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Mulls Asking Donald Trump To Run As Democrat In Effort To Stop Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TheOnion.com February 3, 2020: WASHINGTON\u2014As the beginning of primary season upped the stakes in their search for an alternative candidate, Democratic National Committee officials reportedly mulled Monday asking Donald Trump to run for president as a Democrat in an effort to stop Bernie Sanders. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously not our first choice, but Trump has a track record of winning elections, not to mention he does well with the conservative voters we\u2019ll need to swing some red states blue\u2014if that\u2019s who we need to ask to ensure Bernie doesn\u2019t win, we\u2019ll do it,\u201d said DNC chairman Tom Perez, who had circled Trump\u2019s name on a white board lising dozens of potential candidates the party could try to convince to jump into the Democratic Party primaries in order to obstruct a Sanders nomination. \u201cThis late in the game, we need somebody with name recognition and a built-in following, which Trump definitely has. He has political experience working with Republicans, which will help him win over moderate voters who are turned off by the idea of a socialist president. Plus, he\u2019ll have the backing of the Democratic donor base, who generally prefer him to Sanders. Look, sometimes politics makes strange bedfellows, but I think I speak for party leadership when I say that we\u2019d much rather see Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee.\u201d At press time, Perez was in negotiations to ensure Trump was on every Democratic primary ballot for Super Tuesday and changing the requirements to allow Trump to qualify for the next Democratic debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TheOnion.com February 3, 2020: WASHINGTON\u2014As the beginning of primary season upped the stakes in their search for an alternative candidate, Democratic National Committee officials reportedly mulled Monday asking Donald Trump to run for president as a Democrat in an effort to stop Bernie Sanders. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously not our first choice,… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13831,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions\/13831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}