Bernie Sanders' trip to Puerto Rico, why now?

[CreekDog]

Their primary is the June.

Did the trip help him avoid questions from mainland media about the Nevada chaos (including sexist shouting by supporters or apparent supporters) and Burlington College?

[bkkyosemite]

1. Because he is going full force into CA...and you people drive me crazy with trying to

find something on Bernie...give it a break.

[Gavile]

2. Why do you care if he's already lost?

[CreekDog]

3. He's losing but hasn't already lost

[Gavile]

5. But what about the MATH

[JaneyVee]

4. Because its not his money.

[Gavile]

7. It's ours

And he's welcome to spend it campaigning in Puerto Rico. That's what we gave it to him for.

[SheenaR]

20. Nope

Some of it is mine. And he can do whatever he wants with it.

Thank you for your faux concern as usual.

[Shrike47]

8. Polls indicate he'll lose in Oregon.

[lunamagica]

18. Fraud? Oh, I forgot, is only fraud when the polls don't match the reults and Hillary wins...

My bad...

[SheenaR]

22. There is a ZERO percent chance he loses Oregon

zero...


Kentucky... diff story.

[WhiteTara]

9. The Pope was busy?

[KingFlorez]

10. Puerto Rico has nice resorts, doesn't it?

[Tarc]

12. My guess; it's part of a soon-to-come campaign ad

I don't have Bernie's complete itinerary memorized like some do I'm sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's touched down everywhere at least once, and a "I campaigned in every single primary and caucus state/territory" final ad push is coming.

[auntpurl]

19. He could probably also use a Latino backdrop for CA ads. nt

[SheenaR]

23. He made it to every state except Hawaii and not to Guam or the Northern Marianas

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Because there are voters there?

[Hiraeth]

14. Nawh! Now, you know, it can NOT be that simple.

There has to be some kind of convoluted conspiracy theory.

[NorthCarolina]

15. It wasn't the Bernie people that made sure to have an intimidating line of Brown Shirts

standing before the podium. Democracy at it's finest.

[Moose_Jaw]

16. Consider the irony

Puerto Rico *and* Burlington College, both in debt crisis.

It doesn't give him much moral authority on the matter. Jane is his #1 surrogate, and this reflects poorly on Bernie whether it seems fair or not.

[oldandhappy]

17. pressure on congress

Congress has avoided the PR thing totally.

[Bradical79]

21. It's almost June

Not sure what you have against Puerto Rico.

[DCBob]

24. That is odd. Maybe he's tying to avoid some painful losses tonight.

Maybe some bad internal polling.