Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBERNIE SANDERS’S POST-CALIFORNIA CHOICE
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanders-post-californiaEta: Note to Mods: the headline in the article is all in Caps.
Sanders's intentions are apparently somewhat muddled and - one might say - confusing. The only clear thing is that Bernie wants it all about him, despite what he says.
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... The Sanders scenario goes like this: Clinton has only reached the magic number of twenty-three hundred and eighty-three if one counts superdelegates (this is hard to avoid, since the Democrats have more than seven hundred superdelegates), who, though they say they are voting for her now, can change their vote at any time up until the roll call at the Convention. The question is why they would do such a thing. Clinton has a majority of the pledged delegates as well, so there isnt really an argument based on electoral returns. The superdelegates are elected officials and Party functionaries, who overwhelmingly back her and seem unmoved by polls that show Sanders doing better in matchups with Trump. Sanders argues that they could, nonetheless, be talked into it. (We are on the phone right now, he told Lester Holt, of NBC, on Tuesday.) Sanders alluded to this exercise in his Santa Monica speech by saying that he was pretty good at arithmetic and knew the road was steep. It is so steep, at this point, that it requires not a climb but a rocket. What is the potential fuel that the Sanders campaign is looking foran indictment or some disqualifying scandal? It would be hard to see that as an outcome worth celebrating for any campaign.
And then there is his meeting with PBO today, after which Bernie apparently decided to use the WH as background for his latest speech. http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanders-meets-with-president-obama-over-democratic-race-1465486247
*Sanders Says He Will Do Whatever He Can to Keep Trump From Getting Elected
*Sanders Calls for Statehood for Washington, D.C.
*Sanders Says He Will Meet With Hillary Clinton to Discuss How They Can Work Together to Defeat Trump
More grandstanding, methinks. I'll believe that Bernie will do whatever he can to keep Trump from getting elected and to work together with Hillary when I actually see him doing it - not simply talking about it.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)DC, where minorities are the majority.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)1988 and only joined the push for DC statehood in 2015.
Today he used the WH as the set for a free campaign ad. The coffers may be lower than we thought.
As you say, DC voters are smarter than that.
Cha
(305,137 posts)For instance that there would be "no negative campaigning" when he first stepped into the Dem party.
He forgot to mention he would be demonizing Hillary and the DNC in a short time.
And, I don't believe that he didn't have any intention of doing it in the beginning.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)seemed to set up a photo-op and a forum for SBS. Bernie does not sound as if he is willing to relinquish the spotlight in any way.
I truly hope that I am wrong.
Cha
(305,137 posts)of his use of campaign funds to fly to Rome in search of the Pope
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)But Pope Francis managed to avoid the photo-op. The Pope was more rightly concerned with the plight of Syrian refugees than with the comparatively tawdry concerns of a US Presidential candidate.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Most recently, it was used to get the ACA passed. I live in DC for 12 years, and it was really weird not to be represented, other than by the Republican- controlled congress.
What really pisses me off is the fact that BS only congratulated "her campaign." Insert appropriate expletive here.
BlueMTexpat
(15,493 posts)He still ignores the obvious.