 Alright folks, we've got some good news. It's not the best news ever, but I'll take anything we can get so voters living in 180 different countries who are Americans just participated in the Democratic Party primary and Even though there weren't that much delegates to be awarded Bernie Sanders still won and he won over Well-maintained so as Zach Montalera of Politico reports Sanders won 58% of the vote which included just under 40,000 Americans living abroad and Sanders will be awarded nine delegates to the National Convention over the summer According to the release from Democrats abroad Biden won 23% of the vote and will take home four delegates Turnout was up 15% over 2016 Democrats abroad said for the group's largest recorded primary in-person voting took place from March 3rd through March 10th at sites around the world Voters could also submit electronic ballots Americans living in the United Kingdom accounted for the most voters 5689 with Germany Canada France and Mexico rounding out the top five So there are two things I want to talk about why this is good news and maybe a sign of what's to come And why this might not necessarily matter too much even if it is good news So the first thing is that this is good news because even though the bar was low We were just kind of looking for a sign of life Like is there anyone left who's voting in this primary that isn't willing to just suck it up and vote for Joe Biden Are we just gonna coordinate him or are we still going to make our voices heard and Voters overwhelmingly said no, I support Bernie Sanders. I think that the vision that he is you know Putting forward it's the vision that I agree with the most and I don't care that Joe Biden is currently the front-runner I'm gonna support Bernie Sanders and it doesn't matter that Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar all fell in line and backed Biden. I support Bernie Sanders So this is this is good news but To put the brakes on the optimism just a little bit on one hand. It's not It may not matter because there aren't that much delegates that are going to be awarded. So it's certainly not enough to Change the trajectory of this primary Bernie gets nine delegates Biden gets four, right? Now could it be you know a sign that maybe there's this shift in momentum? Maybe Bernie is gaining That's certainly possible But I will say that Bernie Sanders was kind of poised To win Democrats abroad because if you are living in the united kingdom Germany, france You already are experiencing firsthand some of the policies that Bernie Sanders is proposing, right? So they have socialized medicine in the uk What Bernie Sanders is asking for is socialized insurance So it's not even as extreme So of course if you're living in the uk and you have any experience firsthand with their national health system You're going to obviously realize that what Bernie Sanders is proposing is superior to biden's vision of A public option. I guess he proposed it before but we didn't get that I mean That's obvious, right? Bernie Sanders actually has policies that are not radical because they've been implemented throughout the world But a problem with this is this sample of voters democrats abroad They're likely not representative of democrats living here at home Because if you have exposure to these types of social democratic policies Then they're less, you know, they're they're less foreign to you for lack of a better word So you're familiar with them. They don't seem extreme So you know people at home they might still Kind of just fall in line because momentum is a difficult thing to shift And you know, it's going to be that much more tough for us to get a swing in momentum because of covet 19 Like bernie sanders is currently doing all of these phenomenal things He's holding almost daily town halls where people can ask questions to him and health care professionals or other policy makers He had his entire Base raised two million for corona relief efforts. I mean he's doing so much But they're ignoring it And they're focusing on corona virus, which they should be but when they bring in the political aspect they talk about donald trump or Andrew Cuomo So I mean it's tough to get that That switch to flip So it goes from biden to bernie in terms of momentum But this is good news and Whenever there's good news in dark times I think we should grab onto it and hold onto it for as long as we possibly can Because we need it right now. I'm not saying that this is a sign of things to come but you know Does it give me a little bit of hope? Little bit not too much but a little bit overall. I'm still very cynical very pessimistic Because our future is uncertain. I don't know what's going to happen We have donald trump Who is completely incapable of being a leader and then we have joe biden who's feckless and mostly absent bernie was our chance to really Not just change the country but save the world and people in this primary They decided to go for joe biden Because the media is very effective at brainwashing people but I don't have to get into that because This is supposed to be a good news video. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna self-censor and we'll just say congratulations bernie for winning this