Nominating Clinton Risks 'Disaster Simply to Protect the Status Quo' Sanders Campaign Says

[imagine2015]

Election 2016
Nominating Clinton Risks 'Disaster Simply to Protect the Status Quo' Sanders Campaign Says
The Sanders campaign insists Bernie is "best positioned to beat Trump," and is preparing for a contested convention.
By Ben Norton / Salon
May 11, 2016


Bernie Sanders is not giving up. He is still in this to win, and his campaign is ramping up its rhetoric.

In an email sent out on Wednesday, Bernie 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver declared plans to push for a contested convention in Philadelphia in July.

By nominating Hillary Clinton, Weaver insisted, the Democratic Party would be risking “disaster simply to protect the status quo” in the U.S.

“We’re going to have a contested convention where the Democratic Party must decide if they want the candidate with the momentum who is best positioned to beat Trump, or if they are willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country,” he wrote.

The U.S. political and financial establishment has long made it clear that Clinton is its preferred candidate.

Read the full article at:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/nominating-clinton-risks-disaster-simply-protect-status-quo-sanders-campaign-says

[Waiting For Everyman]

1. Maybe this is why the staff changed.

Weaver wants to stop pulling the punches about the legal matters. Just a guess. Anyway it's the truth, I'm glad he's telling it.

[beachbumbob]

2. Sanders be destroyed by media as they paint him a danger to america

For being a socialist who hates business and success as well as a paficist afraid to make the tough call to keep America safe..it's a no brainier why Hillary will thump trump...

[lagomorph777]

4. Excellent summary of the right's talking points

...not sure it's going to fly with Dems...

Hint: try a spell check.

[rhett o rick]

8. I don't respond to them. Just put them all on ignore.

[lagomorph777]

12. I want to know what they're up to

also it gives me a chance to debunk and prevent others from being infected.

[imagine2015]

9. Those folks painted Obama as an anti-business communist Muslim born in Kenya! How did that go?

[ViseGrip]

3. Go Bernie!!!

[firebrand80]

5. If "momentum" was real

then why didn't his "7 out of 8" winning streak help him in NY, MD, or PA?

And how does "momentum" in Democratic primaries in June do a damn thing to help in a GE 5 months later?

Whatever. After he loses CA, NJ, and DC the momentum line will be dropped.

[imagine2015]

10. Hillary won't have enough elected pledged delegates to capture the nomination.

Period.

[firebrand80]

13. she'll have more than Bernie nt

[imagine2015]

14. Maybe. Maybe not. But Bernie and Clinton won't have enough pledged delegates to be nominated.

[Demsrule86]

6. I guess the Sanders campaign should have won the primary

Too bad so sad.

[dana_b]

7. Yep! #BernTheConvention #SeeYouInPhilly

I actually WISH that I could get there. I hope some of you will be there.

[MisterP]

11. problem is, "Risk Disaster Simply to Preserve the Status Quo" is something the DNC and Clintonistas

are openly okay with, and pursuing