Tennessee U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Marquita Bradshaw late last week thanked the Democratic Socialists of America for helping her campaign, and she also said she can get Republicans to vote for her.
Bradshaw said this during an online conversation with DSA members nationwide. DSA Los Angeles officials posted the video on their YouTube channel.
“We flipped some Republicans, explaining to some DSA members what Medicare-for-all really is and having that patient-centered aspect of it and then talking about education and the environment,” Bradshaw said.
“Yeah, we flipped a lot of Republicans because their candidates are not talking about those issues that are more American issues. That’s how I know that we are going to win in November. It’s because we stick to the issues.”
Bradshaw said that more than 500 volunteers have signed on to her campaign since the primary election. She also said various people throughout Tennessee have donated almost $250,000 to help elect her.
“That is how I knew I would win because when I saw the ActBlue come in and how someone started giving $2 every week, sometimes with 75 cents. I said that is how that will happen,” Bradshaw said, adding she hopes to energize conservative black women and young people into supporting her.
“It will happen with no money.”
Bradshaw also praised the DSA and told them that she “could not have done as much without you.”
As The Tennessee Star reported this month, Bradshaw is an environmental activist and former AFL-CIO organizer. Her campaign website lists her as a community organizer who volunteers for, among other groups, the AFL-CIO, the left-leaning Sierra Club Executive Committee, and the Tennessee African American Environmental Justice Network.
As reported in 2018, socialists in Tennessee apparently have even more influence over the Tennessee Democratic Party than previously believed, including at the state level. Citing a Gallup poll that year, USA Today reported most Democrats no longer think highly of capitalism. Nearly 60 percent of Democrats feel better about socialism.
Bradshaw wants to replace the retiring U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Voters will choose between her or Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty on November 3.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Marquita Bradshaw” by Marquita Bradshaw.
The only way she gets my vote is if I’m sitting on a jury and she is the defendant.
Good luck with that, Marquita! This is a red state thank God, & socialism will NEVER be a popular campaign platform here. Go peddle your Marxist agenda in San Francisco or Seattle.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Delusional
There might be some truth to it. Many supporters of Bernie Sanders in 2016 ended up voting for Donald Trump because they were justifiably angry with the manner in which the Clintons had betrayed them with NAFTA and the like. As you remember, Sanders had opposed NAFTA.
Assuming that Bradshaw opposes NAFTA as Sanders and Trump did, she MIGHT be able to steal some Trump votes. The Deep State also has major enemies on the Left as well as on the Right. We shall see in November whether she can cut in to some of Trump’s former supporters, let alone on whether or not she could win the general election in November. Time will tell.
Marquita who? She might have “flipped” a Republican or two, you know the dead ones that still vote, BUT she and her ilk are losing the Black vote in droves!
People like her are the best thing that ever happened to the Republican effort!
POS BLM
and 30% of nashville.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Commie trash!! She will win 30% of Memphfrica.