Bernie will vote for Hillary, that’s all he needs to do.
I don’t think it is necessary (or needed) for Bernie Sanders to tell his supporters who to vote for. His supporters like Bernie, can weigh the dire and disastrous social, economic and political consequences of a Donald Trump presidency and resulting right wing (republican) 5-4, 6-3 or 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court.
It has been a spirited and hard fought democratic presidential contest. Bernie is being given his space and time to decide when–or if he will engage on the campaign trail.
Bernie on the campaign trail, may (or may not) be on the horizon–if it is, that will be great news for liberal and progressive democrats seeking election up and down the ticket in 2016.
Because of her willingness to try and comprise and find common ground with Bernie Sanders and his campaign. Especially since Bernie Sanders and his campaign seem to be incapable of coming to grips with the political reality and understanding–that they lost the democratic presidential nomination by a significant number in popular votes, elected delegates, and superdelegates.
Bernie Sanders and his campaign are demonstrating they are incapable of compromise and more importantly governing. All the more reason why Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is and should be the democratic presidential nominee. Many of Bernie Sanders proposals, even if he were president, have no basis in political reality–and have no chance of ever becoming passed and signed into law.
…Over the weekend, members of the Democratic Party’s platform committee met in St. Louis to lay out the groundwork for the official policy agenda that party members will adopt at next month’s convention in Philadelphia. Making the cut were several of Sanders’ proposals, including a $15 minimum wage, the expansion of Social Security and stricter sanctions for Wall Street fraud, according to The Associated Press…
…In May, Democratic officials allowed him to name five of the platform committee’s 15 members, with Clinton getting six and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz getting four. It was a concession to Sanders’ campaign, since typically, the DNC chair appoints all of the members…
…Sanders said on Sunday that he is determined to press on and reiterated his vow to take his campaign to the convention…
Republicans who express they support–or will actually vote for Hillary Clinton, is starting to get interesting and politically favorable for Hillary Clinton.
This republican announced his support for Hillary on May 31, 2016.
…Elmets became a White House spokesman under long-time presidential adviser David Gergen and then moved onto the campaign trail for Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign. He later served as press secretary for the Department of Energy until he moved to California to work in public relations, policy and political consulting.
He’s now using his decades of political capital to promote the once unthinkable: Hillary Clinton for president. Elmets said she’s more qualified than the “xenophobic and scary” Trump.
“I don’t believe Donald Trump is a Republican. I think Donald Trump is a brand. And he’s managed to hoodwink America into believing he will lead this country through the fire. I think he will thrust us into the fire,” he said…
Joe Biden has been a great Vice-President–and he will be a great and important surrogate for Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in 2016. Vice-President Biden relates to blue-collar working class Americans. Vice-President Biden was a great help to President Obama in 2008 and 2012, in working-class swing states like: Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and especially the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Like Vice-President Biden, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton’s father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It is smart politics, an example of understanding state politics and the importance of winning presidential electoral votes–to target Pennsylvania as a state to showcase Vice-President Biden.
It is fitting that Hillary and Joe will kick-off Vice-President Biden’s political forway against Donald John Trump (on the 2016 presidential campaign trail), with a joint appearance in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
More great news, as Vice-President Biden, assures democrats that, Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary.
“Oh, I’ve talked to Bernie, Bernie’s going to endorse her, this is going to work out,” Biden said in an interview with Rachel Martin, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. “The Democrats are coalescing even before this occurs.”
Dude, could you chill with the constant shitting on Bernie supporters? I am a passionate Bernie supporter, but am just now coming around to seeing something decent or at least acceptable in Hillary Clinton, and then I read 2 or 3 comments about how Bernie and his supporters shouldn’t have a say in Hillary’s platform because they lost by a margin of ~10% (not figuring in superdelegates who do not correspond linearly to popular support).
What that tells me is that ~40% of the democratic base want a more aggressively progressive agenda and are willing to try something risky, and that cannot be ignored. You mention in the previous post how of course the voters will weigh Hillary against Trump objectively and vote rationally, but we just witnessed that hypothesis failing in the UK with the Brexit referendum. There was literally no upside to leaving the EU and many good reasons to stay in, but the Remain campaign dropped the ball and the disenfranchised voters voted against the status quo.
Replace “leaving the EU” with “electing Trump” and “Remain” with “Hillary Clinton” and it’s essentially the same situation.
The only way forward is to embrace Bernie’s supporters, let them feel like they’re being heard by Hillary and that it is a cooperative effort and not like they’re being shut out. Right now it feels a lot like the party is still trying to ignore us and that is just petty and short-sighted.
Joe Biden was elected to “two terms” as Vice-President, as the running mate of President Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Where has the “corrupt tool of the banksters” rhetoric gotten Bernie Sanders and his campaign? Answer: A resounding loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 democratic presidential nomination contest.
Bernie Sanders voted to deregulate Wall Street in 2001. Does that make Bernie Sanders a “corrupt tool of the banksters”?
Remember, Donald Trump is a man running for president who has had white supremacists working on behalf of his campaign, currently has racist and bigoted white supremacists attending his events in support, initially refused to condemn and distance himself from a Ku Klux Klan member …or white supremacist and despicable anti-Jewish comments and online posts…
…Donald Trump made slight of Harriet Tubman being placed on the 20 dollar bill, made several racist and bigoted references to African-Americans as “The Blacks”, led the racist and bigoted Birther Movement against President Obama …
…Donald Trump is the racist and bigoted republican chicken that has come home to the Republican Party to roost. The Republican Party in totality, is nothing but a racist and bigoted political hate group, fronting as a political party.
You seem to consider anything positive being said about Hillary Clinton–as shig on Bernie Sanders supporters. There is nothing in the articles or my comments in conjunction with the articles (that you responded to), that can be viewed as shig on Bernie Sanders or his supporters.
I feel shat upon. You’re saying that my friends and I are just being childish and unreasonable and that my preferred candidate is throwing a tantrum, even though Bernie is trying to get everyone on the same page, while fighting to make our voices heard in this party. You’re saying that we’re insignificant and we should be ignored. That we lost and we need to shut up (even though again, we may make up a significant portion of the vote in the general election). You’re saying that the issues I have, that my family has, the very real issues that need aggressive solutions need to take a back seat because 3 out of 5 delegates chose Hillary.
Again, there is nothing in the articles or my comments in conjunction with the articles (that you responded to), that can be viewed as shi****g on Bernie Sanders or his supporters.
Second, I stand by the other past comments about Bernie Sanders and far to many of his supporters. Your interpretation of my comments are your own, you are entitled to them, but they are not my comments, they are your interpretation of my comments.
And to your last comment you might as well say “I’m sorry you were offended”. Because who gives a shit how we interpret your commentary / campaigning right? That’s our problem.
Wow, the way I look at it the Clinton campaign is causing this chaos by not responding to the fact that, despite her being given every advantage by the DNC,Sanders still got nearly half the vote despite being an unabashed socialist.
Yet the DNC is completely ignoring that and if anything they’re moving more to the right (Health care is not a right? Asshats)
If Clinton and the DNC would ‘read the writing on the wall’, respond to their constituents, and bend somewhat then we wouldn’t be having these conversations.
The Bernie supporters are certainly causing the “chaos”, but it’s just because they are marginalized and feel backed into a corner in American politics. The DNC digging in their heels fans the flames, but the turmoil is from the people.
The big thing is that the turmoil is a very good thing even if some people tend to use their hearts above any reason.
Just look at the difference between the GOP and DNC reactions to the primaries. The DNC never immediately jumped at each other’s throats like the GOP did, and definitely did not have the same reaction of people looking out solely for themselves. Bernie and Clinton clashed, but it wasn’t the vitriol that immediate came from each GOP candidate. To me, the DNC hasn’t handled things well but there’s at least a response of an establishment willing to change instead of simple saying “the voter’s spoke” and then doing whatever they wanted anyways like Paul Ryan.
I still don’t like Hillary Clinton, but my estimation of her increased by a little by her writing this for The Toast: http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/a-note-on-the-toast/
At a minimum it was a very smart move.
Well the good thing is your estimation of Hillary is higher than before you read the article.
If she wrote the article, she was probably hoping to drive down her high negatives among many critical voters who dislike her.
She has been running campaign ads in swing states designed to highlight her positive accomplishments, in hopes of driving down her high negatives among critical voters.
I’ll tell you though, Bill and Loretta did not help her this week.
the-toast is (was) huge, and had a dedicated following, and sending a reasonably warm and personal message to a readership at that point has a lot of impact. It was smart. I still will cringe if I do wind up voting for her, but I want her to do things that make me cringe less and this helps a little.
You’re not kidding. Big Dog better be sent to the dog house for that one.
Hillary Clinton will have a better chance of defeating Donald Trump, if she has the support of a large majority of Bernie Sanders supporters.
I believe the majority of Bernie Sanders supporters will eventually vote for Hillary, because a vote for any third party candidate will only help Donald Trump win the presidency.
There are worst things things that can cause an emotional eruption of despair, weeping and sorrow than voting for Hillary Clinton. Like being a Golden State Warriors fan at the moment of realization–that your record setting and supposed invincible team, has lost the NBA Championship to my hometown Cleveland Cavaliers.
Some people are going to stay home and let everyone else make the choice for them. Depending on the state this will either help or hurt Trump/Clinton.
Jill Stein could attract some Bernie or Bust types. Right now she so’s minor they aren’t including her in most polls, though the ones she’s in are around 4%, so it’s hard to know the real base of support is there. The Greens are weak and Stein’s running a loathsome enough campaign (on Twitter she’s mostly just attacking Clinton, and actually repeated Trump talking points to do so), that while I’d thought about a Green vote, it won’t be for her.
Gary Johnson is primarily attracting Libertarians and Republicans who can’t stomach Trump. He’s polling around 10% now, so a vote for Johnson’s usually a vote against Trump. If there are Bernie fans who back Johnson, they’re hopeless fools. So some third party votes could actually help Clinton quite a lot.
At this point even with the understandably unhappy former Sanders backers, there aren’t any blue states that have turned purple that I’ve heard about. On the other hand Arizona, usually sold red, had Trump losing in a recent poll (!):
It’s going to be a weird one, but I would like to see more third party candidate support at this point since it’ll suck more away from Trump than Clinton. The number of disenfranchised Republicans is greater than that of the disenfranchised left.
Despite what the current presidential polling says, which favors Hillary Clinton, the vote to determine the next president of the United States will be close–and every vote counts.
Until the last vote is cast in the 2016 presidential election, supporters of Hillary should continue to register others to vote, encourage others to vote, help get out the vote and vote themselves–like Hillary is behind in the polls.
No victory by Hillary in the 2016 presidential election, should be assumed or taken for granted. The following is unexpected and welcomed good news for Hillary, Why? because every vote counts in the 2016 presidential election.
More Republicans for Hillary–great, the more the better.
…Faced with a choice between Clinton and Trump, some Republicans have begrudgingly agreed to support him while others are simply opting out of the election. But for these women who founded the group, (and one man who has joined in solidarity), Trump’s bombastic style, offensive rhetoric toward women and minorities, slapdash policy “suggestions” risk destroying the party.
This is the post-primary Never Trump movement in action. Their new organization, which is not affiliated with the Clinton campaign, is part support group and part activist hub: They intend to host off-the-record social events for like-minded conservatives and sponsor get-out-the-vote efforts for Clinton. They started in May by launching accounts on Facebook and Twitter and are planning to make an appearance at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia next month…
103 year old and Ruline Steininger plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in the presidential general election. Ruline campaigned for Hillary in the democratic presidential primaries and caucuses–and now in the 2016 presidential general election, she again is campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, 103-year-old Ruline Steininger spoke about campaigning for Clinton during the Iowa caucuses saying she never thought she’d live to see a woman president in her lifetime.
and Loretta 
did not help her this week.
