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State Republican leaders in South Carolina are urging GOP voters to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the state's Feb. 29 Democratic primary.
The plan - orchestrated by Greenville GOP chairman Nate Leupp and several other prominent Republican Party leaders - revolves around GOP leadership's belief that Sanders poses the least amount of challenge to President Trump in November's general election and its goal of getting the Palmetto State's Democratic lawmakers to agree to close the state's primaries.
"Bernie Sanders is the most socialistic, liberal candidate running in the Democratic presidential preference primary," Leupp told
The Post and Courier. "So we feel we can make a strong point that our Democratic state legislators need to help work to close our primaries so it protects them as well as the Republican brand."
Currently, South Carolina has open primaries, meaning voters don't have to be associated with a political party in order to cast a ballot.
According to the paper, Leupp and company are set to unveil their plan on Thursday at a press conference at the GOP's headquarters in Greenville.
In the latest Post and Courier
poll, Sanders only trailed former Vice President Joe Biden, who has long been the favorite in the state, by five percentage points.
Leupp said that he believes that the state's large Republican voter base could make the difference in the primary. To his point, in 2016 roughly 740,000 people voted in the state's GOP presidential primary, while only 370,000 voted in the Democratic version.
"I think we can easily affect the outcome," Leupp told the paper. "This is going to catch on like wildfire."
I love it when the Fascist DPST's get hoist on their own petard.
Vote Bernie - I have planned for some time.
The Communist needs to be exposed for not the kind old Uncle Bernie - but the Joe Stalin communist he is. And won't be giving up one peny or bit of his nomenklatura privilege.
Hell - I would vote for H.... before Bernie on Nov election.
He is the ideal nominee to expose the Fascist DPST radicalism - and have America not be morphed into amerika by the LSM and Communist sympathizers.
Republicans urging GOP voters to vote for Sanders in South Carolina primary: report
