Though he remains far behind Clinton in the delegate count, Sanders is hoping to inflict a “heavy blow” on Clinton by winning the California primary and is determined to have a vocal presence at the Democratic Convention in July, the Times reported.
The Times said:
While Mr. Sanders says he does not want Mr. Trump to win in November, his advisers and allies say he is willing to do some harm to Mrs. Clinton in the shorter term if it means he can capture a majority of the 475 pledged delegates at stake in California and arrive at the Philadelphia convention with maximum political power.Democratic leaders are urging Sanders to stand down to allow Clinton to focus on presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump. But the Sanders camp in recent days has escalated its rhetoric against Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, which it accuses of rigging the debate schedule and taking other measures to give Clinton an unfair advantage. The Sanders camp has also been buoyed by a series of polls showing him faring better against Trump than Clinton.
The Times reports:
Mr. Sanders has sharpened his language of late, saying Tuesday night that the party faced a choice to remain “dependent on big-money campaign contributions and be a party with limited participation and limited energy” or “welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change.”
Tensions exploded over the weekend at the Nevada Democratic Party convention, where Sanders supporters accused Clinton backers of breaking party rules. His supporters shouted down pro-Clinton speakers and sent threatening messages to the Nevada state party chair.
Democratic leaders called on Sanders to apologize, but the former Burlington mayor instead criticized the DNC’s conduct.
“If the Democratic Party is to be successful in November, it is imperative that all state parties treat our campaign supporters with fairness and the respect that they have earned,” Sanders said in a prepared statement. “Unfortunately, that was not the case at the Nevada convention. At that convention the Democratic leadership used its power to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place.”
On Tuesday, Sanders beat Clinton in the Oregon primary, but lost narrowly in Kentucky. The Sanders camp has said it is considering asking for a recount in Kentucky.
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This is getting so ugly. The hard-core Bernie supporters are becoming the Tea Party of the left. It’s got to be somebody’s fault that Bernie is losing, it’s all a huge conspiracy against him! He should do the classy thing and concede. Regardless of my previous support of him, he just didn’t get the votes. That’s how these things are supposed to work!
Seems like it’s time for Clinton to stand down.
That’s what is wrong with this ‘democratic’ process. It isn’t over, he has a narrow change but a chance yet people have been saying for months that Bernie doesn’t stand a chance. Americans have ceded the decision making to the press and party lackeys.
The Bernie Bro’s are showing their true colors in public, and it is hurting Old Yeller that he refuses to come out strongly against the misogynistic behavior of the angry white males he has whipped into a frenzy as the backbone of his campaign. From his campaign slogan of “Feel the Bern” to his more personal attacks on Hilary Clinton, his very message is a personal, negative and an aggressive antagonistic one. After the Sanders supporters put the Nevada State Chair’s cellphone number online in their social media circles (typically next to photos of dead animals) the Nevada Democratic Party has put the messages she has received online. They are violent, vile and un-mistakenly misogynistic. Old Yeller’s campaign is no longer about progressive ideals, it is anti-women. He’s not doing anything to stop it. He is stroking the flames, and it is making him look as bad as Donald Trump. No legitimate source is saying he can win the nomination – his only remaining goal is to start a revolution – – which is apparently going to be a violent one against women.
The Democratic party set the schedule for the primaries and the convention.
If they wanted to have a nominee sooner, they should have made the schedule accordingly.
This seems basic and obvious to me. But I’m not a Democrat; I’m an independent.
“If I can’t win the Democratic Party I’m going to destroy it. (Even though I’ve never actually been a member of the Democratic Party in my entire life.)” –Bernie.
I’d say Hillary is the one dividing the party. It’s not Bernie’s fault so many people dislike HIllary and flat out don’t trust her. If the Dems put up an honorable candidate you wouldn’t see a problem.
A big mistake is to trust the newspapers and media – even NPR. I’ve heard crazy stuff, even there. I think that if they paint the picture to look like Bernie and his people are getting crazy, some readers and listeners will believe it. I don’t go for it. We used to call that logical device “poisoning the well.” (You say “everything they say is lies” and then you can be the only one telling the truth.) Why should we believe one story over another? In this age of cell phone cameras, it is difficult to believe no one got footage of a Bernie person acting violent. Yelling about an outrage (in Nevada) is not violent. Fooey.
So according to stickinthemud, all of the media is corrupt and manipulated into mis-reporting about the violence and hateful attacks by Sanders’ supporters in Nevada. Want to actually witness some of it? Go to the dropbox of text messages and voicemails hurled at the chair of the Nevada State party: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/plk8x3hugdasxl4…
See and listen to the actual threats and vile comments and come back here and say you support them.
Sanders and his supporters can pretend the threats and violence didn’t happen, but the rest of the County is watching, and those who supported his ideals will be turned off from participating any further if he continues to refuse to take a STRONG stance against the misogynistic threats and violence, and stop adding fuel to the fire by personally attacking Secretary Clinton as corrupt, wall street, etc.