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13019527, Did you listen to Bernie Sanders speech last night?
Posted by CRichMonkey, Wed May-11-16 10:16 AM
He's not coming at Clinton, he's going after Trump on the issues.

Meanwhile, HRC is pivoting to her issues like lowering childcare costs.

Bernie is going to take his campaign to the convention, but he's not playing to win the nomination. His approach is two fold:

1.) Maintain the enthusiasm he's already built up. There are people in the remaining states that have given him money and come to his rallies and he owes it to them to give them a chance to pull the lever for him in the voting booth. It's also a smart thing to do because he's going to need those votes as evidence that his agenda should be part and parcel to the Democratic party agenda.

2.) Move his supporters back to the party and eventually to the party's nominee. He's got people who are still very much Bernie of Bust and he knows he owes it to the Democrats to deliver as many supporters as possible to the party to assure victories in the fall. He can't just get up on stage and say, "Alright, time for Hillary" and expect his folks to just jump on. He's gotta help show the contrast between Democrats and Republicans and then Clinton vs. Trump so that folks make the right decision on their own.

It's like in 2008 with Hillary's PUMA supporters. She knew she had to go the distance even if it was an exercise in futility because she had to get her folks in line with the way things were gonna be.

So look at the narratives in totality and in context and you'll see how they story is gonna play itself out.



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