Instead, Sanders looked backwards-thanking his supporters for their passion and hard work, and taking a deserved victory lap for pushing issues like income inequality into the mainstream-before addressing his political future.
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“My hope is that when future historians look back and describe how our country moved forward into reversing the drift toward oligarchy, and created a government which represents all the people and not just the few, they will note that, to a significant degree, that effort began with the political revolution of 2016”, he said.
At every level, we continue the fight to make our society a nation of economic, social, racial and environmental justice….
Political observers in the commercial media had been discussing for many days whether or not Sanders would endorse Hillary Clinton, who at present has the support of enough delegates to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention next month.
Guccifer 2.0 says he downloaded thousands of documents on the DNC server, as well as Hillary Clinton’s private server while she served as Secretary of State.
Sanders said that the main job facing the movement immediately is to defeat Donald Trump.
Ben LaBolt, the national press secretary for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, told Kapur that “Sanders wants to show that his campaign was not for naught, that it impacted the party and he’ll have organizing power moving forward”.
By arguing that “we need major, major changes in the Democratic Party in converting it to a party of the people-welcoming working people, welcoming young people”, Sanders marked the beginning of a struggle with, and against, the Democratic Party, even after conceding that he doesn’t have a shot at the nomination. But in his video statement he said he must take the campaign’s energy to the convention. I think that’s been widely reported. “But ultimately it will be much ado about nothing”. According to the transcript of the video available on Sanders’ website, nowhere has he explicitly mentioned that he is dropping out of the presidential race.
Representatives for Clinton, Sanders and Warren did not immediately reply to requests for comment on the report.
How is it that a democratic-socialist, a title many people dislike, is succeeding?
“During this campaign, we won more than 12 million votes”.
Leaving the Democratic Party is what Sanders has to do next.
“Since 2009, some 900 legislative seats have been lost to Republicans in state after state throughout this country”, he said. “That is unacceptable”, he said. Its drafting committee held a series of hearings in Washington last week and plans another starting Friday in Phoenix. Earlier this month, he raised $60,000 locally for Chris Pearson’s Chittenden Senate race.
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After the final primary Tuesday, Sanders and Clinton met behind closed doors for more than 90 minutes about a variety of issues, including raising wages, eliminating undisclosed money in politics and reducing the cost of college for students.
