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“Bernie Has Plenty To Lose”: The Sanders Campaign Is Divided Over How It Wants To Die

The night Hillary Clinton won the New York primary, the Sanders campaign sent two radically different messages about how it planned to proceed. In an interview with the Associated Press,senior Sanders adviser Tad Devine said the campaign would “sit back and assess where we are” after the five northeastern primaries on April 26. At roughly the same time, the senator’s campaign manager, Jeff…

“An Infinite Loop Of Bullshit”: Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves The Nomination

The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Liveimagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond over Sanders’s stupidity in refusing to attack Clinton, and Clinton having rigged the primary system. (Clinton: “Remember all those states like Wyoming where you beat me by a lot, but I still got most of the delegates?” Sanders: “That was so…

“A Day Of Reckoning For The Sanders Campaign”: Decision Time, To Concede Or Attempt To Disrupt The Convention

Coming off of big wins in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend, the Associated Press reports that Hillary Clinton is within 26 delegates (pledged and super) of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. With upcoming races on Tuesday in New Jersey, California, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico, the folks at NBC First Readsummarized the situation with pledged…

“The White Entitlement Of Some Sanders Supporters”: If You’re Young, White And Privileged, You Don’t Expect To Lose

“Killary Clinton is stealing the nomination and the system is rigged against Bernie Sanders,” said the two young white guys standing behind me in line. They rambled incessantly about how she was cheating and could not be trusted. Superdelegateswere their greatest frustration. Unelected delegates who could “decide” the nomination proved that the process was a sham that was intentionally set up to…

Clinton Looks To Secure Nomination In New Jersey

Decisive wins in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico leave Hillary Clinton on the verge of victory ahead of key primaries.

Hillary Clinton comfortably won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary

June 06, 2016

Hillary Clinton now needs fewer than 30 delegates to win the Democrat nomination after a victory in the Puerto Rico presidential primary, according to an Associated Press count.

The decisive…

“The Moment Of Truth”: Why The Sanders Movement Is Just About Dead

This is the moment of truth for Bernie Sanders and his supporters. It’s the moment that determines whether everything they’ve accomplished to this point is translated into real power and real change, or fizzles into nothing, leaving behind only bitterness and resentment. And right now, the latter course is looking much more likely.

What happened in Nevada over the weekendwas an expression of some…

“Bernie’s Math Problem”: Why Sanders Campaign Has Resorted To Arguments Of Swinging Superdelegates In His Favor

Bernie Sanders won the Indiana presidential primary and has so far garnered 43 delegates to Clinton’s 37. But that’s pretty much where the good news ends. As Nate Silver documented prior to knowing the final results:

But let’s suppose Sanders pulls it out and wins a narrow victory instead, claiming 42 of Indiana’s 83 pledged delegates. He’d still then need 611 of the remaining 933 pledged…

Pledged delegates are much closer than you think.

Bernie is running against a well-known, Super-PAC empowered, millionaire, ‘Top 1%’ establishment candidate, and holding his own. David is holding his own against Goliath. 

America wants someone like Bernie to have an influence on our country. Telling Bernie to go away, or drop out, is not going to make Hillary a better candidate. Bernie is making Hillary a better candidate. 

If the convention comes up and pledged delegates are near equal [assuming Bernie keeps winning state primaries], ‘the people’ are saying they do not want Hillary. The democratic voters are telling the establishment super-delegates they do not want Hillary. That is not Bernie, that is the voters.