Sanders’ supporters in Wisconsin hope to pressure the state’s super delegates to switch their allegiance from Clinton to the Vermont senator.
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The campaign was swift to shoot down the rumor.
“I’ve been told they will run the idea by Bernie”, Jimmy Halliday, president and jumpmaster at NorCal Skydiving, told the Press Democrat. “Ha I wouldn’t count on it”, Sanders spokeswoman Sarah Ford texted the Guardian when asked for confirmation.
Beside the tarmac of the city’s municipal airport on a sweltering night, Sanders supporters heard the populist politician roll out numerous standby pledges of his campaign, including a single-payer healthcare system, the expansion of Social Security, equal pay for women and comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.
“I believe that it’s important that Bernie’s very progressive agenda be included in the platform regardless of who wins the nomination”, said Clark, the vice chairwoman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. “They tested me out”.
“I am announcing today that I will be voting for Bernie Sanders [in] my role as a superdelegate at the convention in July”, she said.
It appears that the staffer who jumped with Halliday was a (possibly overzealous) member of the campaign’s “advance team”, which scouts locations and prepares for rallies.
Symone Sanders, another campaign spokeswoman, reiterated that the rumors were false: “He’s not parachuting”.
When asked whether the subject was going to be discussed, the spokeswoman commented that she could not deny it for sure.
“Now it’s on radar”.
Clark said she would be stumping for free college tuition at public schools, livable wages and the exodus of special-interest money from politics at the convention in Philadelphia.
Clark said she also plans on pushing for parts of Sanders’s policy proposals to be included in the Democratic Party platform. “I don’t know if skydiving is the next big thing for him”.
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The parachutes typically deploy at an altitude of roughly 5,000 feet, Halliday said.
