'Maybe a Bernie-Warren ticket?': 13 activists weigh in on the 2020 primary at the biggest gathering of progressives in the country
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Jul 16, 2019, 11:26 IST
Summer Stinson (right), Washington state public education advocate: "I'm a huge Warren fan ... I was supporting Bernie last time, but I'm supporting Warren and her 'plan for that' this time."
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Dave Manson, executive director of the Idaho Falls Community Food Basket, wants a candidate who'll fight poverty.
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Stan Shapiro, left, co-founder of Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks, and Bo Dirnbach, a retired schoolteacher, both support Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Kelly Thome is a retired molecular biologist from Massachusetts.
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David Reid, businessman from Manchester, NH, said Sanders' "time has passed," but he is excited about Warren, Sen. Cory Booker, and Sen. Kamala Harris — and he "still hasn't ruled out Biden."
Gerry Hoffman, a professor of chemistry at Edinboro University, ran for and was elected to serve his local Democratic party of Erie County.
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Anita Sarah Jackson, a Netroots board member who works for Moms Rising in the Bay Area said the 2020 candidates who didn't attend the conference missed out on a key opportunity.
Miranda Marquit, chair of county Democrats in Idaho Falls, ID, voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary.
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Stephanie Singer is a data scientist from Portland, Oregon.
Matt Nelson, director of Latinx political advocacy group Presente.org, is excited about the progressive freshmen congresswomen.