Posted on 05/03/2016 4:29:43 AM PDT by simpson96
Hillary Clinton's allies are fuming over Bernie Sanders’s vow to take the presidential nominating contest to a floor fight at the Democratic convention this summer.
Many Democrats believe Clinton effectively clinched the nomination after a string of victories across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic gave her what looks to be an insurmountable lead in delegates.
But rather than rein in his efforts, Sanders has declared that he’s playing to win, even if he’s trailing badly in delegates after the last votes are cast in the final primary contests next month.
The Vermont senator says he plans to campaign and lobby superdelegates to support him over Clinton all the way through the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this July.
Some Clinton supporters, believing the nomination is at this point only a formality, are frustrated by Sanders’s threat to drag things out.
“At this late stage in the primary, he should stop trying to rile up his people and start to bring everyone together,” said one longtime Clinton ally. “That’s what Hillary did for Obama. He needs to set an example and start bringing his people over if he cares about defeating [Donald] Trump in the general election.”(snip)
“The convention will be a contested contest,” Sanders said.
“We intend to fight for every vote in front of us and for every delegate remaining.”
Many Democrats are rolling their eyes at Sanders’s insistence that he has a case for a contested convention.(snip)
Because Democrats rely so heavily on superdelegates, it takes a huge blowout for a candidate to arrive at the convention with enough earned delegates to have already won the nomination outright.
In 2008, then-Sen. Obama needed the help of superdelegates to get over the top. But Clinton made this easy on him, bowing out of the race after the last primary contest rather than arguing that superdelegates should back her instead.
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Bernie has a better chance of forcing a floor fight than Ted Cruz.
BTW, Shrillary did give up her fight until early June back in 2008.
I hope his supporters get into and actual fist fight. The demodogs started this mess by catering to ever more far left loonies. They made this monster I hope it eats them alive
The totalitarians are furious at the “low-information”, “safe-space” socialist-indoctrinated yutes. Bernie is preparing them for the rite of passage at the convention as he hands his slaves over to Hillaryous Rotten Criminal.
Grow up, snowflakes.
Just who are ‘Hillar Clinton’s allies’? Feminazi’s, homosexuals, and the anti-American media?
Sanders has what I consider a valuable ally (unless something changed when I wasn’t looking) in Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
Plus, the Sanders people are rip-roaring mad at the corruption up and down the political spectrum. They are not likely to stand by and let Hillary steal the delegates.
Keep on fightin’ Bernie. Keep on fightin’.
Sanders has the SJWs on his side.
They dont care for Hillary, and may just take over the convention by force, like they did in Chicago.
They are just that crazy.
The funny thing is that when Ted Cruz is in the picture he has every right to take the primaries all the way to California. So they tell us.
But when Bernie Sanders wants to take the primaries all the way to the convention he should bow out. How odd?
Could it be because the democrat machine wants Hillary but the republican machine does not want Trump and has nothing to do with what the people want?
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