Sanders Quietly Reassures Democrats

[WI_DEM]

“As tensions were escalating between Bernie Sanders and Democratic Party leaders over the chaos caused by his supporters at a Nevada convention, Dick Durbin got an unexpected call from the Vermont senator,” Bloomberg reports.

“Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, came away from the conversation on Wednesday convinced that Sanders, who has all but lost the presidential nomination battle to Hillary Clinton, understands the need for party unity and will do his part to defeat presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/05/20/sanders-quietly-reassures-democrats/

[hrmjustin]

1. Sanders needs to loudly reassure Democrats.

[TwilightZone]

2. We tend to forget that primary politics are usually like this and that the runner-up

usually comes through in the end.

This year is a little unique, of course, with Sanders being more of a Democrat of convenience, but I still think that he understands what's at stake in November, even if his rhetoric about "fellow" Democrats doesn't usually reflect that.

[liberal N proud]

3. Then Sanders said he is willing to do "harm" to Hillary Clinton

Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Senator Bernie Sanders is opening a two-month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California and amassing enough leverage to advance his agenda at the convention in July — or even wrest the nomination from her.





While Mr. Sanders says he does not want Mr. Trump to win in November, his advisers and allies say he is willing to do some harm to Mrs. Clinton in the shorter term if it means he can capture a majority of the 475 pledged delegates at stake in California and arrive at the Philadelphia convention with maximum political power.




For weeks, some current and former Sanders campaign workers have privately acknowledged feeling disheartened about Mr. Weaver’s determination to go after the Democratic National Committee, fearing a pitched battle with the party they hope to support in the general election. The intraparty fighting has affected morale, they say, and raised concerns that Mr. Weaver, a longtime Sanders aide who more recently ran a comic book store, was not devoted to achieving Democratic unity. Several described the campaign’s message as having devolved into a near-obsession with perceived conspiracies on the part of Mrs. Clinton’s allies.

Democratic leaders said they wanted to do everything possible to avoid having Clinton-Sanders tensions send the Philadelphia convention into the sort of chaos they had expected to mar the Republican convention. So far, though, Mr. Sanders has not indicated that he would ask his delegates to support Mrs. Clinton, as she did in 2008 for Barack Obama.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-campaign-accuses-head-of-dnc-of-favoritism.html?ref=politics&_r=2


Bernie Sanders cannot proclaim he is a Democrat, a Progressive, a Liberal, or a Socialist with this type of destructive intentions. He will destroy the country rather than swallow his pride. For that he can go straight to #%!!

[sarae]

14. ^ THIS! ^

I don't understand...talk about mixed messages. Which is it? The two statements he's made directly contradict each other. I'm so sick of him acting like he's not doing HRC any long-lasting damage.

[Her Sister]

4. Sounds good but gotta see it to believe it!

[Cha]

5. Not buying it.. remember when he first came to the party and said he was NOT going to

to run a negative campaign?

All he does is lie.. why should I believe him now?

[pandr32]

16. Exactly!

He is thinking of himself all the way.
Aloha Cha! The container left for Hawaii--I go Sunday. Can't wait!

[Cha]

17. That's Wonderful, pandr! You've been busy!

I'm so happy for you... lots of new adventures!


& Tropical Treats~

[pandr32]

19. Mahalo for these

I can't wait!

[Cha]

23. A 'ole pilikia~

You're, pandr~

[Maru Kitteh]

24. I'm with you Cha

I will be overjoyed but SHOCKED at this point if he actually behaves in a honorable manner going forward.

[Cha]

25. It will mean that the pressure was too instense not to, imo.

Maru~

[Maru Kitteh]

26. verdad! nt

[Cha]

27. Si se Puede!

Is the shirt I have on right now!

[Maru Kitteh]

30. que perfecta!

[Cha]

31. Si!

City of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, along with American labor leader and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta during the opening of Hillary Clinton’s first Southern California campaign office a the Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 300 on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/ Pasadena Star-News)




http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=127996

[Maru Kitteh]

33. Hillary is with us! - I LOVE that poster of her. WANT ONE :-)

But I will just have to settle for working for and looking forward to calling her MADAME PRESIDENT!

[johnp3907]

6. I don't believe a word he says.

[sarae]

15. I don't either.

He keeps contradicting himself. One minute he says what Dems want to hear, and then you turn on the news and hear he's on the warpath against Hillary again. I don't understand him.

[Cha]

28. So like minded.

John~

[Loki]

7. I'm from Missouri

Show Me!

[Cha]

29. Touche~

Loki~

[Jitter65]

8. So he is falsely leading his supporters on? Deceiving them and taking their money still?

Such integrity!

[Koinos]

9. At rallies, Sanders used to brag about how many donations he was taking in?

Does he do that any more? Or have donations dried up?

[LiberalFighter]

10. When have we heard that before?

Yet he will continue to rile up his supporters and have his surrogates continue to stir it up.

[Walk away]

11. Does anyone believe a word that comes out of Bernie Sanders' mouth????

He infiltrated our party and is now trying to destroy it to satisfy his inflated ego. I hope that he lives long enough to be stripped of every ounce of power and respect he has left. His name should go down in history as the quintessential political traitor.

[workinclasszero]

12. Sure..Sanders also said he wouldn't run a negative campaign

What a whopping big LIE that was eh?

His word is worth spit at this point.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Il_Coniglietto]

13. He needs to flip that. Loudly support the party, denounce the chaos, and attack Trump.

Quietly reassure his supporters.

[skylucy]

18. Well his supposed "quiet" reassurances are not reassuring me. I am afraid the convention is going

to be (to use the favorite word of a certain stupid Republican presidential candidate) a "DISASTER" !

[ucrdem]

21. I don't think it will get out of hand.

But it's not going to be a big love-fest either. Trump's will get better ratings but so what.

[ucrdem]

20. On the one hand that's reassuring.

I K'n'Red in GDP, and will here too. On the other hand that's Bernie for ya. Playing both sides at once, like his vote against IWR cast on the same day he quietly voted for the fiscal 2003 Defense budget.

But, because this is still DU, I still am happy to have this on the record, though I don't think it will mean squat in Philly. He's also said on the record that he fully approves outdoor protests and "doesn't encourage" (but doesn't discourage, either) disruption of proceedings.

[Number23]

22. This is like the 3rd or 4th article that I've read where Sanders is alleged to have seen the light

of his increasingly destructive and unhinged campaign and supporters and pledged to do something about it. He talked to Harry Reid and pledged to do better just a few days ago, now he's talking to Durbin.

And every time, the response from his campaign was to get louder, more ridiculous and more destructive. At this point, I don't see how anyone still believes a word that man says.

[SunSeeker]

34. If he meant it, he shouldn't be so quiet about it. nt

[Blue Idaho]

35. I don't trust Bernie Sanders

Any further than I can throw him.