CNN is reporting that the Sanders is saying that his campaign is going to pivot..

[CajunBlazer]

...to an "issues orientated " campaign and to push for a "progressive platform".

[stopbush]

1. Pivot Toward what? An evermore embarrassing defeat?

[KewlKat]

2. does this mean he will end his unfounded assaults on Hillary?

That he will give funds to down ticket dems? you know, will he now play by the DNC rules?

[IamMab]

6. I don't think he even knows how. If he could have been running that campaign, he would have been.

He likes to pretend he hasn't been negative from the beginning, but I'm not fooled.

[CajunBlazer]

13. He will turn away from attacking Hillary, and he knows how

because if he ticks her off he won't be able to have a chance to have a hand in shaping the platform.

He will continue to push his issues for the same reason.

[workinclasszero]

3. Pivot equals surrender

[LoveMyCali]

4. He knows his time on the national stage is limited now

So he needs to pound his issues as much as possible in the time he has left.

[pandr32]

5. Oh! I thought that is where Sanders started

What happened?

[Haveadream]

7. Yep

He lost that plot a long time ago, didn't he

[CajunBlazer]

9. It means he acknowledges that he is not going to win

It means that he will continue through the last primary.

It means that it no longer makes sense to attack Hillary when he is going to end up endorsing her.

It means he will continue to talk about his major issues and get as many delegates as he can so that he will have as much leverage as possible to shape the platform.

This is the pivot that we were all waiting form

[wysi]

10. My friend Chris

... who works for the Clinton campaign just messaged me about this. He said it's a "non-concession concession".

[CajunBlazer]

14. Exactly

[LiberalFighter]

18. Good to know behind the scene.

[George II]

11. They are looking more and more foolish by the minute. For months he's been saying his is...

....an issues oriented campaign. So what is he "pivoting" from?

He should pivot toward Vermont and retirement.

[Legends303]

12. He is done

I think that statement was just dancing around that he is not winning the nomination even a noble goal he should be a leader in one of the protest groups and be a motivational speaker instead.

[Nonhlanhla]

15. Bernie is in a somewhat difficult place

He knows he's lost. But he has a pretty large following, and he can't let them down. So he can't just drop out - he needs to give them the chance to play to the end of the game. I hope he knows that he will now have to show some real leadership and guide his followers towards supporting the Democratic nominee.

[Walk away]

16. I wish he would pivot to the nearest river and jump in.

What a waste of money and time when we should be fighting Donald Trump. Bernie is being a real Jackass about this. I hope his support dries up and he looks like a fool in California!

[Hekate]

17. Suuuuuuure he will, and suuuuure his followers will link arms with us and sing Kumbaya

[Cha]

19. He should have been "issue oiented" the whole time.. maybe he wouldn't be losing so badly.

[Pika78]

20. Here's where he can pivot

[Whimsey]

21. Maybe his pivot is a cash cow

Don't overlook the fact that Bernie has a very large staff to feed, travel to make, retirement wardrobe to acquire, all with campaign donations that could be directed to the general. Hard to give up all that campaign cash and the lifestyle it gets you. I noticed today on MSNBC Jane even finally had her hair styled!

[KewlKat]

22. I've provided a sample of pivoting. Just trying to be helpful.

[BlueMTexpat]

23. Pivot?

I thought those were what his campaign was supposed to be about from the beginning?

Bernie is as quirky a candidate in his way as Trump is in his. I'm STILL shaking my head over his grandstanding visit to Rome at a crucial point in the NY primary, not to minimize my confusion as to why ANY Dem candidate would think it a good idea to bring Church into a political primary for State governance.

Now he's quirking ALL over the place. If he continues trashing Hillary or letting his surrogates trash her on his behalf, whether those surrogates be the BernieBros faction or Susan Sarandon and her ilk, he'll be lucky get into the convention at all, let alone have anything to do with the platform.

He can stay in as long as he wants. But he should immediately cease and desist with all negativity towards Hillary and all things Dem, stop his campaign's incessant whining about fraud (only, of course, in states he lost) and Dem rules in general, and quit fundraising on anti-Hillary themes or any theme that indicates that he can possibly win the Dem nomination. He can't.

What he should do is to concede graciously - whenever - and get right down to work to get Prez O's US Supremes nominee a hearing in the Senate. Then he should work hard to elect down-ticket Dems and to try to undo some of the damage that his campaign has done to Hillary. Then - and only then, IMO - should he get a place at the table to contribute to the Dem platform.

JMO.

[Historic NY]

24. What does that mean fantasy to reality???