2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win. [View all]BainsBane
(54,773 posts)but to imagine that determined the outcome of any primary is delusional. Also Bernie knew about none of that when he made those charges, long after it was clear he couldn't win. More importantly, unlike his supporters, he actually knows what the DNC does (I'm presuming he does since he's been in DC for three decades), so he knew his claims were false.
Do you think it would have mattered if Bernie would have had all the questions in advance? At the New York Daily News interview, he proved himself unable to engage substantively with issues he had been talking about for years. It shouldn't have been a shock that they wanted to know how he planned on implemented what he was running on. The interview demonstrated he never planned on implementing any of it. He and his supporters were furious that he was expected to offer more than talking points.