Fearing Trump, some Democrats up pressure on Sanders to exit (This thread was locked earlier in LBN)

[chwaliszewski]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Bernie Sanders to end his campaign for president, with Democratic Party leaders raising alarms that his continued presence in the race is undermining efforts to beat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this fall.

Sanders is having none of it, frequently telling the thousands of supporters who attend his rallies that he still has a narrow path to the nomination.

"Please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems," Sanders said in a recent interview with MSNBC. "It is a steep hill to climb, but we're going to fight for every last vote."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fearing-trump-democrats-pressure-sanders-exit-074218940--election.html


Your thoughts?

[onecaliberal]

1. If they were worried about Trump getting in, they wouldn't nominate hillary.

she is the weakest, and worst candidate to come along in a while. She consistently polls low, and is losing ground with each poll.

[LWolf]

3. They're not THAT worried. nt

[highprincipleswork]

2. Bernie should stay in all the way. He has a viable path and he is representing so many of us who

want something different than the same old triangulation and legerdemain.

Besides that, there is the fact of an FBI investigation hanging over her candidacy, and if he drops out he becomes just that much easier to ignore.

The Democratic Party, if it was smart (not so sure about that one) would wake up and smell the coffee. The success of Bernie Sanders, getting as far as this even from his beginning in the race as a relative unknown, means something. It means that people are hungry for something new, something honest and authentic, something truly Progressive and Populist and Liberal, something they can count on to stand up for them against vested interests.

That is what the Democratic Party has traditionally stood for, when it was truly great. In the days of FDR and afterwards, when it held a majority in Congress as well for most of those years. When New Deal values were taken for granted, even by Presidents like Eisenhower.

Then, when vicious Ronnie Reagan worked his magic over the America political landscape and got people believing some truly nasty, wrong stuff, the Democrats came up with these tactics of compromise and triangulation and so forth. Maybe this was simply necessary, in those time, though one could argue it was not. But what Sanders' campaign shows us, and even Trump's campaign shows, the American public are hungry for something different again, not this same old shit.

Now, I would use that to say Bernie is by far our better candidate in this election year. But Bernie or Hillary, this party better get with the program and NOT feed us the same old shit. It isn't going to go down smoothly.

Bernie has to stay in, to protect that point of view and to give us a candidate that represents that to the powers that be. To show the continued popularity of this view of the world.

He also has to stay in because it is a bare fact that Hillary is currently under FBI investigation. That is serious, and to be dealt with, and until it goes away without leaving a scar, it seriously raises questions about her candidacy and viability.