Posted on 05/20/2016 4:22:37 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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.
Advisers to Mr. Sanders said on Wednesday that he was newly resolved to remain in the race, seeing an aggressive campaign as his only chance to pressure Democrats into making fundamental changes to how presidential primaries and debates are held in the future. They said he also held out hope of capitalizing on any late stumbles by Mrs. Clinton or any damage to her candidacy, whether by scandal or by the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump.
After sounding subdued if not downbeat about the race for weeks, Mr. Sanders resumed a combative posture against Mrs. Clinton, demanding on Wednesday that she debate him before the June 7 primary in California and highlighting anew what he asserted were her weaknesses against Mr. Trump.
Mr. Sanders, his advisers said, has been buoyed by a stream of polls showing him beating Mr. Trump by larger margins than Mrs. Clinton in some battleground states, and by his belief that an upset victory in California could have a psychological impact on convention delegates who already have doubts about Mrs. Clinton.
But his newly resolute attitude is also the cumulative result of months of anger at the national Democratic Party over a debate schedule that his campaign said favored Mrs. Clinton; a fund-raising arrangement between the party and the Clinton campaign; the appointment of fierce Clinton partisans as leaders of important convention committees; and the party’s rebuke of Mr. Sanders on Tuesday for not clearly condemning a melee at the Nevada Democratic convention on Saturday.
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.
Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Mr. Sanders, said the campaign did not think its attacks would help Mr. Trump in the long run, but added that the senator’s team was “not thinking about” the possibility that they could help derail Mrs. Clinton from becoming the first woman elected president.
Something funny happened on the way to Crooked Hillary’s coronation.
I hope he inflicts tremendous damage on Clinton.
——or even wrest the nomination from her——
Wrest indicates force. Force indicates there are Democrats that recognize the danger hillary represents to America and want to thwart her efforts.
The party is split on personal lines
Go, Bernie! Tilt those windmills! Skewer that witch!
300 million people in the USA. The best the democrats can up with for a leader is a 100 year old socialist and a wrinkly old lesbian. Funny, sort of.
Sort of a rematch of Trotsky and Stalin (Snowball and Napoleon). Hill should be unleashing the dogs on him soon.
This us my dream, pre caffeine.
Bernie and Hillary get it into a very bloody fight. The convention turns to utter chaos and at the end, Hillary is severely damaged but wins. Bernie’s are so angry they refuse to vote for Hillary. Meanwhile, Trump continues to beat the entire Clinton family for the grifters and perverts they are. Trump wins all 50 states. The beating is so bad no Clinton blood ever dares run for office. Once Trump is sworn in, the criminal prosecutions start. Bill and Hillary are convicted and sentenced to hundreds of years for every crime they have committed.
Hillary and Bill are feeling the burn, like trying to urinate with a venereal disease....as both must surely have vast experience.
Now that ours is decided (for better or worse), you gotta admit it is popcorn time at the old demoncratic corral.
Do you think Trump and Bernie might work together to destroy the Clintons? Enemy of my enemy arrangement?
I wonder if Sanders actually thinks he can win this, or if he just wants to keep pulling Shrillary left. If it’s the latter, it’s definitely working because she would have moderated her tone and started sounding like a centrist long before now.
Look, Hillary is not going to be the nominee. What’s going on now is that she’s being allowed to pile up delegates so that after she, Bill, and Chelsea are arrested, Biden/Warren can step in and Sanders will be short.
As much as I enjoy Hillary’s discomfort, I would prefer her to be the Dem nominee.
It would seem that the superdelegates are the issue.
They are the died in the wool Rats with political debts to the Clintons. If they can be persuaded that there is more to gain personally by opposing Hillary than voting for her, the game is changed.
We will see.
LOVE your dream...
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And the old crazy guy and the Co-Arkancide conspirator are better then very old boring Bob Dole, Very crazy Juan McLame or how about that born leader of men and woman, Mitt,? As for this current stumble bum his ONLY plus is he is part black.
Each year I ask, Is this the best we came come up with?
This group of babosos?
Go Bern!
I assume he has SS protection...right?
Every morning the SS inspects Bernie’s bed for horse heads.
Thanks for the ammo Bernie.
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