2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: To Sanders supporters FROM a Sanders supporter: please stop saying Bernie should've got the nom. [View all]Gothmog
(154,889 posts)We had several telephone calls before the conventions and instructions from the Clinton campaign to be nice to the Sanders delegates. I had my youngest child with me as a guest and on more than one occasion Sanders delegates screamed obscenities at her because she was betraying her generation by not supporting Sanders. We had to move a couple female delegates away from a Sanders delegate who was screaming obscenities in the convention. Eventually the Sanders delegation leader had to get between this delegate and any female Clinton delegate.
After the convention there were issues. A Sanders person bragged to my daughter at a young democrat meeting that she was telling voters while poll walking for a down ballot candidate to vote for Stein. I wish that these were isolated incidents. There are rifts to be healed but none of these rifts deal with hypothetical claims that Sanders could beat trump.
I am focusing on voter protection issues and registering voters for next cycle. I would like to see these rifts healed but there is so much to do to turn Texas red. Sanders voters were not a significant presence in Texas anyway in that Latino and African American voters really rejected Sanders. Sanders was less than 25% in my senate district and barely made 35% statewide.