Sanders has been negotiating with the Clinton campaign to ensure that his ideas are part of the party platform presented at the Democratic National Convention later in July, when Clinton is formally nominated. He’s also on the platform committee and was tapped by the Clinton campaign to argue against the TPP amendment.
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The event marks a major milestone for Clinton’s campaign, which has sought support from Sanders’ backers as the Vermonter has hesitated to offer his full endorsement to her. And Sanders passed on an easy target by telling the nation during an October 13 debate with Clinton that Americans were sick of hearing about her “damn emails”, a reference to her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Clinton’s campaign is holding the event at a high school in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
“I think if you read the platform right now, you will understand that the political revolution is alive and kicking”, he added, according to NBC News.
Party officials met over the weekend in Orlando, Florida to finalise the Democratic platform, and they described it as the most ambitious and progressive platform in history. How effusive he will be in Tuesday’s rally will be carefully watched, not least by his die-hard supporters, some of whom even Monday night were insisting on social media that the joint appearance might not constitute a true endorsement.
There have been discussions between the two camps about deploying Sanders to states where he performed well in the primaries, such as Wisconsin and MI.
Nina Turner, a former OH state senator and a Sanders surrogate, said there’s always been a sense among Sanders’ supporters that the “establishment” – whether it’s the DNC, Clinton or her supporters – sees him as “a cute annoyance that they never expected to come this far”.
Mr Sanders has said he will do all he can to prevent Mr Trump from winning the White House and the senator’s vouching for Mrs Clinton could help her with the independents, liberals and millennials who flocked to his primary campaign. But he told reporters on Saturday that the two campaigns were “coming closer and closer together”.
Sanders did not win all of his policy fights in the party platform, most notably failing to win support for blocking a vote in Congress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Sanders’ long resistance to endorsing Clinton diminished his political leverage as the campaign drew to a close and Clinton decisively clinched the nomination.
And last week, Clinton announced a new college affordability plan that mirrored Sanders’ proposals. “Thanks to the millions of people across the country who got involved in the political process … we now have the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party”.
Trump and Clinton both halted their campaigning for a day after Thursday’s Dallas police murders.
Sanders, for example, had championed making college tuition free for everyone who attended public universities and colleges. (Although to be fair, that threat has been in play since his candidacy for the nomination started to gain steam.) If the Green Party pulled enough votes to fuck with Clinton but not enough to actually win, most people to the left of Trump would (justifiably) hate them forever.
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David Worley, an Atlanta attorney and former state party chairman, is a Clinton delegate to this month’s convention in Philadelphia.
