Bernie Sanders Delegates Prepare for Philadelphia Convention Fight

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Bernie Sanders Delegates Prepare for Philadelphia Convention Fight
The Associated Press

... nerves are raw now over the Democratic Party’s perceived slights against the insurgent candidate and they are clinging to a bygone hope that Sanders can wrest the nomination from Hillary Clinton despite her overpowering lead in delegates.

As these super-fans chant “Bernie or bust,” Democratic officials are growing increasingly worried about dissent, especially after a recent state convention in Nevada turned raucous. Some of the Sanders backers who are going to the convention as delegates for him — and there are more than 1,400 — give party officials little reason for comfort.

Sanders delegates, in more than a half dozen interviews, say that while violence is not their goal for Philadelphia, party unity isn’t their priority, either. They don’t believe he has been treated fairly by the party establishment.

But Cleo Dioletis, from Denver, said the Nevada blow-up showed how far the party establishment would go to silence Sanders’ supporters. “I am very concerned that credentials could be pulled for unjust causes,” he said.

[Agschmid]

1. Fight for what?

Someone will win after the first vote, that person will be the nominee.

[Scootaloo]

2. You're aware more goes on at the convention than just the presidential nomination, aren't you?

[Agschmid]

4. Of course. But ask this poster what part of the convention they were talking about.

I would be willing to bet I was on the same page as them.

[scscholar]

7. But but but according to BernieMath(tm)

there could be a second vote.

[highprincipleswork]

3. Why don't you just try to improve on the performance of political steamrolling stunts like these?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Sore loser snowflakes

who feel entitled to riot against a "rigged system". Do they care that, just like Gene McCarthy sore losers in 1968, they risk throwing the GE to the Rs?