‘Uncommitted’-Backing Bernieworld: The Primary Is Over, Time to Vote for Biden

Three leading progressive groups are plotting a strategy to push the Democratic Party platform while calling on the left to rally around the president.

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Prominent national progressive groups that have spent months boosting the “uncommitted” movement in presidential primaries are now urging support for an inside-the-tent strategy to influence the Democratic Party’s platform for a second Biden administration.

Leaders of those groups are now expressly calling on lefties to support the reelection of President Joe Biden, calling it the “best strategy” to “preserve and amplify our voice while fighting the most dangerous threat to U.S. democracy in our nation’s history.”

It’s an important data point for Democrats scrambling to answer a burning question ahead of November: Will livid progressives who turned out to cast a vote against Biden in battleground primaries help to hand former President Donald Trump a win?