Former Sanders Spox Goes Off On Twitter: 'NO ONE STOLE THIS ELECTION!'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Symone Sanders, former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)'s presidential campaign, went on a Twitter rant Monday as the Democratic National Convention unfolded, criticizing those who were still supporting the Vermont senator over the party's nominee, Hillary Clinton.

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Symone D. Sanders
@SymoneDSanders

Look, people are well within their rights to have passions and opinions. That is how we create change in this country. We need the passion!!

5:33 PM - 25 Jul 2016
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Symone D. Sanders
@SymoneDSanders

But let me be clear - NO ONE STOLE THIS ELECTION! Team Sanders we did AMAZING WORK. But we lost. It's a hard reality for some.

5:36 PM - 25 Jul 2016
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Symone D. Sanders
@SymoneDSanders

It was a hard reality for me. Because I fought hard. Now, we won some great battles, but the reality is the system didn't cheat us.

5:38 PM - 25 Jul 2016
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Symone D. Sanders
@SymoneDSanders

Now the contents of the leaked emails show individuals were definitely biased, but 7 folks on an email didn't "steal" the election.

5:41 PM - 25 Jul 2016
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[63splitwindow]

1. K & R

[Orangepeel]

2. Good for her

[jtuck004]

3. "Love me, love me, love me. Now, stop loving me and love someone else and shut up".

What a blindingly great piece of well-thought-out strategic thinking.



You think you can pretend to a revolution and then just stop? That's how one winds up on the menu...

[OwlinAZ]

17. The whole mess puts Senator Sanders in an unfortunate position.

It would have been better if he had never endorsed Clinton. Now he is betraying his supporters who have worked their keisters off in good faith and by the rules and for what? Hillary knew very well the deceit and double dealing of the DNC staffers but just didn't care since their shenanigans benefited her.
Very sad and disgusting. The Party suffers.

[jtuck004]

20. If, for example, you loved me and thought I would always agree, and I do "wrong", then you are hurt.

Is it my fault for being human or yours for your unrealistic expectations?

No one who supported him inside the D party had any business thinking they could just move him ahead of the candidate that all these people who have been working since the friggin' 50s, since Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, presumed would be the one. That would be a strategic mistake. All the rest of it is drama.

If there was to be a revolution it needed to start out by not asking anyone's permission to join anything. You change things by standing up and saying "Join Us". Not "Change your behavior 'cause you are doin' it all wrong".

Hearts don't change. Not really. And fighting against that is nearly always useless. Gotta find another way.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. He didnt betray us

He supported the nominee, just like he always said he would. We pulled up short.

[SunSeeker]

19. Bernie needs to say the Dem primary election was not stolen.

Bernie was the one who kept saying the system was rigged. He precipitated this reaction. He needs to fix it. And the way he fixes it is to make clear that Hillary won fair and square.

[dvduval]

4. There was room to spare

Hillary won with room to spare. It wasn't all that close honestly. I was disappointed too, but damn, damn, damin.... Please, please, please... DO NOT hand this election to the guy that wants to start rounding up Latinos and Muslims, build a wall, and all kinds of absolutely crazy shit. Throw some water on your face. Wake up. Move forward!

[geek tragedy]

5. Warning: Twitter can cause heads to explode nt

[L. Coyote]

6. Right on. Sanity is a handy thing.

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R

[Boomer]

8. This, so much this

I am a fervent Bernie supporter, and I couldn't agree more with the OP.

We LOST. Get over it, and move on to support our progressive goals. Allowing Trump to win the presidency is about as far from those goals as it is possible to be.

[Beacool]

9. Thank you for being the voice of reason.

When someone has 3.8M more votes than another person, no one stole squat.

Imagine if Hillary's delegates had behaved like Sanders' delegates in 2008. Obama won by a hair, Hillary won by a country mile.

Sore losers.......

[Scorpionflyx]

10. Good for her.

Hope they are listening.

[strategery blunder]

11. This Bernie supporter is for Hillary/Sanity 2016 :)

After California, I moved on. I had enough interest to check the CA SoS's page for updates as provisionals were counted, a process that diluted Hillary's election-night win there but did not erase it, but I accepted it and moved on.

To put things in perspective, North Korea has endorsed Donald Trump and urged Americans to reject "dull Hillary." Trump has recently said he wants to let NATO be dismantled. I have not always agreed with Hillary, but I won't have to worry that she would send the nukes flying because lil' Kim insulted her.

Hillary represents another 4-8 years of President Obama's policies, more or less. I had hoped to move the political discourse of the nation further left, and towards more accountability for the oligarchs, so I supported Bernie during the primaries. Nevertheless I'm fine with someone who would generally carry on the Obama legacy for another 4-8 years. And so far I've been pleasantly surprised by Hillary sticking to the positions she espoused during the primary (the cynic in me was afraid she'd tack right the second she became the presumptive nominee).

Now let's work on giving Hillary a Congress she can work with.

[groundloop]

12. This Bernie supporter agrees.... time to Move On and keep tRump away from the White House

A vote for a third party candidate, or a vote that doesn't get cast, is a vote for tRump.

[Akamai]

18. groundhoop -- You bet! I contributed a lot of money (for me) and look forward to Bernie's themes

going on, but it's time to move on and keep the tRump away from the White House, or any house except for the jail house. Maybe locking him in the outhouse would be good.

And if he fell in, he would be swimming in his own element.

[cstanleytech]

13. Not sure if this really belongs in LBN to be honest. nt

[epreic01]

14. I'm with Hillary and I have Integrity

I would not support someone that rigged and cheated the system. When I first heard of this I said to myself, " I can't support someone that is cheating" so I looked into it. Nothing. Kept looking, nothing at all credible could be found. So I support Hillary and I still have my integrity.

[bjobotts]

15. Sick of people posting all this Bernie crap to cover up the issues we stand for.People were for

Single payer long before Bernie...same with being anti fracking or anti TPP or supporting our postal service. Seems every time an issue is brought up we get "Sanders lost...get over it". Sorry but this political revolution did not belong to Sanders alone. We don't want to be the party that supplants the republican party as the party of Wall street and Goldman=Sachs do we? These DLC moderates with all their lobbyists buying influence does not represent the will of the people. Disagreeing and standing up for the issues you care about is how a democracy works. Blind followers are those (like Trump said) "I could shoot a guy on times Square and people would still vote for me. Is that not personality centered followers. Don't criticize debate...encourage it. I don't blindly follow people. I want to know where they stand and if they are willing to listen or change.
So stop with the Bernie centered rhetoric and focus on the issues please

[Akamai]

16. Symone -- wonderful messages! You were there in the trenches and speak truth to power!!!

It's time to support Hillary whole-heartedly!

[Blue State Bandit]

21. With friends like this...

Going about it all wrong.

[MADem]

22. 7 folks on an email didn't "steal" the election.

That is it--in a nutshell!!