In an hour-long interview to air on C-SPAN on Wednesday, Bernie Sanders — while not going so far as to officially concede — admits that it doesn’t look like the Democratic nomination is in the cards for him, and at this time is unsure whether or not he will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next month:
“It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to determine the scope of the convention. I’ve given a few speeches in my life. It would be nice to speak at the Democratic National Convention. If for whatever reason they don’t want me to speak, then whatever. But I do think I’ll speak at the convention.”
With the nomination seemingly behind him, the senator’s focus is now using his delegates to influence the Democratic Party’s platform, and working with Hillary Clinton to add some of his progressive policies to her campaign.
“We are negotiating almost every day with the Clinton people and we want Secretary Clinton to stake out the strongest positions she can on campaign finance reform, on health care, on education — especially higher education — on the economy, on the minimum wage. She has clearly had to fight her way through a lot of sexism and unfair attacks over the years — which are based on sexism. But we have disagreements. She is clearly an establishment Democrat.”
Hillary Clinton has faced sexism? *cough* Bernie Bros *cough* To that point, Sanders commented on the outlandish claims made by Donald Trump that Bernie supporters will quickly come to the dark side when it becomes official that Clinton is the Democratic nominee:
“I suspect he ain’t gonna get too many of those people,” Sanders said, describing Trump as a bigot who favored anti-worker policies.
Here, here. As important as it is to incorporate Sanders’ progressive policies into Clinton’s campaign and bring the Democratic Party back together in unity, it’s just as important for Democrats to work together to keep a dangerous sociopath like Trump out of the White House.
(Via Washington Post)