By Endorsing
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders May Have Positioned Himself to Win The
Presidency
Elizabeth Algernon Branscum Q. Why did Bernie endorse
Hillary now?
A. They threatened to completey shut him out of the convention if he
didn't.
Q. Couldn't he have said screw them and go and fight at the convention anyway?
A. No. Hillary has more delegates, Superdelegates, and supporters on the DNC
rules committee. They would have voted down every one of our platforms, denied
Bernie the opportunity to speak, and basically shut him out of the entire
process. All the leverage he has gained up to this point would be gone.
Q. So wait, Bernie DIDN'T quit today?
A. No. He had to say she won the primary, he endorses her and will help the
party defeat Trump, yadda yadda but he DID NOT concede. There is a very big and
important difference. Had he conceded, all of his delegates would go to Hillary
and he would no longer be an option for nominee.
Q. So Bernie can actually still win??
A. YES. And if he wasn't still TRYING to win, he would have conceded. The ONLY
option he had to get to the convention with his delegates behind him and have a
chance to still win was to do what he did today. He is not a traitor. He didn't
sell us out. He did the only possible thing he could have done to keep fighting
for the nomination.
Q. So how can Bernie still win if he's losing the delegate count and he just
said he will help Hillary win the election?
A. By far the most important thing to the DNC, even more important than making
sure Hillary beats Bernie, is making sure the Democratic nominee beats the
Republicans in November. They scrutinize every poll, every opinion of the
public, every event to judge whether a candidate is strong enough to win in November.
There are A LOT of things going on right now that show how weak of a general
election candidate Hillary Clinton is:
-66% of the country sees her as untrustworthy
-60% thinks she should have been indicted for the email scandal
-A lot of Bernie supporters won't vote for her
-Congress has requested the Department of Justice investigate her for lying
under oath about the email scandal
-There's a possibility more emails will be leaked by wikileaks or hackers
further proving her guilt
-Many believe the FBI is secretly investigating the Clinton Foundation
-Her "wins" during the primary havr been tainted with accusations of
fraud, suppression, lawsuits, and investigations
And then there's Bernie. An honest candidate people trust and whose approval rating
and trustworthy rating crushes Clinton's. This is the argument Bernie will make
at the convention. With all his 1,900 delegates inside arguing this case and
100,000 supporters outside arguing this case, we hope the DNC realizes he's the
only choice. He CAN win the convention, but he has to get there first. That's
why he endorsed her today.
Q. So it's still important that all of his delegates go to the convention and
we all still March on it like we planned?
A. It's more important now than it ever was before.
Q. What if the DNC still refuses to nominate him at the convention? Can he
still run third party now that he endorsed her?
A. Yes. In fact, running third party has never been an option until AFTER the
convention. We need to stick with Bernie and see this through to the
convention. He's led us this far. Do not abandon him now.
Q. What if he loses at the convention and doesn't run third party, but instead
endorses Hillary 100% and asks us to vote for her?
A. Then our revolution continues without him and we continue to fight against
Hillary Clinton and the DNC all the way up to November and beyond by voting for
someone like Jill Stein or writing Bernie in. But the time for that is NOT here
yet.
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