Sanders: I'll fight to keep Republican out of White House if I'm not nominee

[one_voice]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that even if he isn't the Democratic nominee, he will do everything he can to make sure a Republican is not elected in November.

"I think Hillary Clinton and I agree on this, that we will do everything we can to make sure that a Republican does not win the White House, and I will knock my brains out," he told MSNBC's Chris Jansing.

"I will work seven days a week to make sure that that does not happen if I am the nominee and if I am not the nominee. That's what I will do."

During the interview, Sanders said that "of course" his views align much more with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton than with Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

He said he doesn't think Trump "has any judgment whatsoever."

When asked if he believes Clinton is smart, Sanders responded: "Oh, god yes, she is very smart."

Although the Vermont senator acknowledged that he's the underdog, he said he still has a "narrow path" to victory and will fight "for every vote that we can get to make that victory happen."

During a rally Wednesday, Sanders insisted that he was in the race to win it.
"Let me make it clear so there is no confusion,” Sanders said during a rally at Purdue University in Indiana. “We are in this campaign to win and become the Democratic nominee.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/277909-sanders-if-im-not-nominee-ill-fight-to-make-sure-a

video at link

[AuntPatsy]

1. Good

[Baobab]

40. I would vote for Elizabeth Warren

and Bernie

[Jackie Wilson Said]

2. Great, so explain to me (I predicted this, of course) how ANYBODY claiming to be his

supporter wont also do this?

[David__77]

6. Only those making that choice could explain that on an individual basis.

I think it's probably that many individuals voted or will vote for Sanders and don't have 100% agreement with him. I don't know that they would necessarily make the same calculations that he would make regarding the general election.

[Vattel]

7. Being a supporter doesn't mean that you do whatever he does.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

10. Holy shit was that quick, easy and convenient.

Amazing!

Not much of a supporter, if you ask me, if you are willing to dump on him the minute he tells you something you dont want to hear.

[Vattel]

11. lol, do I have to agree with everything he says and does?

[nolawarlock]

19. I suppose you can be the first. Congratulations. nt

[onenote]

20. No. But a revolution without a strong leader tends not to get very far.

The test of Bernie's leadership will be how his supporters react if he's not the nominee and he urges them to support Clinton. I, for one, am Sanders' supporter (with $$ and my primary vote) who will become a Clinton supporter (with $$ and my vote) if, as appears pretty likely at the moment, she is the nominee.

[Vattel]

27. you guys are too much

[onenote]

37. Once upon a time you thought endorsements were meaningful

But now the endorsement of your own candidate means nothing to you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511264768#post20

[Vattel]

44. I have no idea what your point is supposed to be

[onenote]

51. That doesn't surprise me at all.

[Vattel]

69. Um, sorry?

[onenote]

70. Like I said...

[aikoaiko]

23. Just stop. If we were mindless automatons for the Democratic party we would have voted for HRC

Supporters can disagree with Bernie and still be good Bernie supporters.

[nolawarlock]

17. Unless it comes to changing your positions on gun control, that is.

I don't have much of a horse in Bernie's domestic arms race, but I do find it fascinating how many staunch anti-gun folks changed their positions so that everything they believe and do reflects their sainted candidate. Is this a candidacy or a religion? Who can say?



Source: New York Daily News

[aikoaiko]

24. That headline is fucked up. There is no connection between Sandy Hook and Bernie.

[nolawarlock]

25. Take it up with them.

Since Fox News is the new go-to source for so many on DU now, I can't see a problem with the New York Daily News.

[aikoaiko]

26. You posted it. I'm taking it up with you.

[nolawarlock]

30. Ah ...

well my opinion on it is this ...

[Kittycat]

35. Should I post some Jeff Epstein articles?

Because Hastert received his sentence today. In my general post sentence searching, all types of articles pop up tying Trump & Clinton to Epstein, and they were on the plane and island. I just, I don't know. If we're going to play the six degrees of separation game with headlines.

[basselope]

46. I will vote to keep a republican out of the White House...

Clinton is a republican, so I won't vote for her.

[sufrommich]

3. Good news. nt

[redstatebluegirl]

4. He would need to start with some of his supporters.

They see Bernie or Bust, some have even said they will vote for crazy ass Trump.

[Xyzse]

8. Since that is not on him.

That is dependent on each individual voter.

Clinton is not owed those votes. She must campaign for those votes herself. To assume or expect them to go to her is the height of entitlement.

If she does become the nominee, I will vote for her. I just won't be helping in the campaign.

There are other democrats that I'm going to concentrate on.

Forgive me, this was in response to post 2.

[xloadiex]

9. His supporters have minds of their own

and should make that decision for themselves.

[2pooped2pop]

14. show who has said they will vote for Trump

[nolawarlock]

21. Bernie or Bust ...

... is busted. I think Bernie knows as much as any of us with two brain cells to rub together that 90% of the Bernie or Busters are really Green party or other third party voters that were never going to vote Hillary anyway. Why cry over milk you never had in the fridge to begin with? I think that leftmost corners of the Democratic party are going to realize how truly terrible the Republicans running this year are and support Hillary.

[aikoaiko]

29. So you're admitting that HRC cannot offer left-of-Democratic anything to vote for.

[nolawarlock]

31. I really wouldn't know ...

Since this is a Democratic site. Find your own tennis ball to play with.

[aikoaiko]

32. I think we found something we can agree upon - you don't know if HRC can offer lefties anything.

[nolawarlock]

33. I see what you did there.

You just changed terms. You said "left-of-Democratic" before. I think she offers lefties in the Democratic Party plenty.

[basselope]

48. She will not be president.

[nolawarlock]

53. Wishful thinking?

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

[basselope]

54. Just a factual analysis

[nolawarlock]

55. If you say so.

[basselope]

56. I know so.

She will never be president.

[nolawarlock]

57. I believe that you believe that when you say what you believe ...

... but I believe that what's really happening is ...

[basselope]

58. I don't say I believe.. I tell you what I know.

Hillary Clinton will not win the general election.

She will never be president.

Sorry.

It's just the way it is.

[nolawarlock]

59. Ooooook now.

[basselope]

60. Sorry the truth hurts.

The funny thing.

You know I'm right.

Anyone with ANY political analysis can see it.

She can't win Florida. She can't win Ohio.

She can't win.

[nolawarlock]

61. How many Republicans do you know?

I know quite a few, and they all despise Trump. They don't like Hillary either because they think she's too far left (an interesting irony you get to hear more often when you have friends of many strips) but most will definitely vote for her over Trump.

[basselope]

62. No you don't.

I know you want to tell yourself this to make yourself feel better...

but, come on. Wake up and smell the cat food.

Florida and Ohio (and even Wisconsin) have been set up a GOP win. It would take OVERWHELMING turnout to overcome the voter ID laws and voter suppression the GOP has put in place.

Clinton lacks the depth of support to overcome that.

Trump has a huge advantage, he gets to 6 months to re-invent himself and an October surprise when Hillary's transcripts are released, just like Romney's 47% comment.

Democratic turnout was already going to be depressed.

Now they have an uninspiring candidate, with mountains of baggage fighting against a multi-billion dollar machine that has spent years waiting for the moment to take her down.

Her actual chance is 0.

[nolawarlock]

63. We'll see. nt

[basselope]

64. There's nothing "to see".

The only chance the democrats have left is an indictment against her to drive her out so a candidate with the power to turnout independents shows up.

Clinton, no matter who she picks as her VP, doesn't have the depth to win Florida or Ohio.

[bigwillq]

5. Kick (nt)

[sadoldgirl]

12. His supporters are everything else but sheep.

They listened to his policies and agreed with
most of them. Thus, if these policies are not
in HRC's playbook, they feel no need to vote
for her.

[nolawarlock]

52. Yeah, like gun control. Nt

[pinebox]

66. Ya "gun control", that tired meme

when the candidate you support was nicknamed Annie Oakley and painted POTUS as being "too liberal" on gun control and recently held a fund raiser with NRA lobbyists. You've been both a sucker and a mark.
Hi Camp Weathervane, we see you.

[2pooped2pop]

13. too bad Bernie. If it's not you, the only thing left are republicans.

I don't see a path without any dems. (non DINO)

[OKNancy]

15. Good man

[Waiting For Everyman]

16. If Hillary was doing everything SHE could

she wouldn't be running, as someone under active investigation by the FBI. So her statement to that effect is a lie.

[moriah]

18. Bernie, good for you. Thanks for saying it. You always have, when asked directly.

I'm sorry that people who have worked for your election, paid or unpaid, have made you look bad by suggesting you wouldn't do exactly that.

I agree that you can't snap your fingers and make everyone who supports your vision vote for the Democratic Nominee -- you are running a campaign, not a cult -- but these type of statements DO help.

Thanks.

[artislife]

22. i guess we will really see if it was a cult of personality and not about the issues.

[Hiraeth]

28. Jill Stein is not a Republican. eom

[nolawarlock]

34. Still shilling for third party I see.

I can't believe I had an opportunity to truck this out twice in five minutes.

[Bleacher Creature]

36. Nor is she a real candidate.

She's a perennial loser and a whack whose entire basis for running is to act as a spoiler (for the benefit of the Republican nominee).

[Hiraeth]

38. Both of the REAL candidates are under investigation.

[pinebox]

68. A whack you say?

Tell us, where does Jill stand on the issues that make her a whack? We'd all like to hear that seeing as how you must know.

[moriah]

39. Please read the TOS of this site.

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[Hiraeth]

41. Bernie Sanders is still in it.

[moriah]

42. Jill, however, is a spoiler.

I wish the mechanics of our country's twisted voting process didn't make her one.

But until we get the real revolution -- ranked choice voting -- we are stuck.

[basselope]

49. I will not vote for Hillary Clinton, no matter what the TOS on a website says.

I will continue to speak my opinion on this until I can't do that anymore.

[treestar]

45. Make sure one is not elected in November, he said

Jill Stein has zilch chance to actually win.

[savalez]

43. Start fighting. n/t

[Dem2]

47. Good to hear

He seems more than willing to support Hillary if he doesn't pull this one out.

[greatauntoftriplets]

50. Trump lacks judgment?

That's the understatement of the decade.

[Godhumor]

65. That's the Bernie I knew we'd hear n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

67. I just LOVE Bernie.

"I will work seven days a week to make sure that that does not happen if I am the nominee and if I am not the nominee. That's what I will do." <---- another reason why I just love Bernie Sanders despite what craziness coming from the Bernieorbust camp.

[Joob]

71. Hehe, "anything that I can.." Maybe he knows Hillary's chances would be slim in GE

and will go Third party to PREVENT Republicans! Just saying.