Bernie Sanders Slams Media’s ‘Rush’ to Declare Victory for Clinton

[pdsimdars]

Neither Democratic candidate has achieved the required 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, but the Associated Press still declared victory for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination today.

In response, the Bernie Sanders campaign has scolded the media for celebrating before anything had actually been decided.

“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer,” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said.

Media outlets like Washington Post and The Hill were quick to put out articles anointing Clinton as “the first woman in history to win a major party nomination.”

Clinton has so far gotten the public support of 571 of the Democratic insiders known as superdelegates compared to Bernie’s 48. However, superdelegate votes are not officially cast or counted until the Democratic National Convention, which runs July 25-28. Bernie is planning to flip the support of some of these superdelegates before then, citing the data which suggests he defeats Donald Trump in a general election match-up by much larger margins than Clinton.

Without the superdelegates, Clinton currently has 1,812 to Sanders’ 1,521 pledged delegates.

Michael Briggs reiterated the Sanders campaign’s plan. “Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump.”

Even the Clinton campaign has declined to follow the media’s lead, tweeting “We’re flattered, @AP, but we’ve got primaries to win. CA, MT, NM, ND, NJ, SD, vote tomorrow!”


http://usuncut.com/news/bernie-sanders-media-clinton-ca/

[LexVegas]

1. Bernie's been done since March. nt

[anotherproletariat]

9. Exactly. I just think he has had such easy senate races in the past, that he had no idea how to

handle a losing campaign. His denial has been epic, and certainly has hurt his causes - which are, like it or not, much more closely aligned with the Democratic Party than with the repubs.

[bvf]

2. Well, I, for one, am grateful

that this same, stupid, premature ugliness hasn't taken hold of anyone here.

Big Rec.

On edit:

Well, almost anyone.

[pdsimdars]

5. Then DNC told them NOT to include SDs in their counts, not only did they ignore that

but they even CALLED it with SDs.

The communications director for the DNC told them that the SDs are "likely" to change their votes. That was a strange word to use.

[bvf]

7. Frankly, I'm skeptical that the DNC

actually told them not to include SDs. Oh, I'm sure there's something out there for show, but there's little doubt here that there was an "understanding" with AP.

Like, "Hey, AP! Remember Helen Thomas? Don't do that! <wink wink nudge nudge>."

[pdsimdars]

8. Go look for the clip on youtube. He was very strong with Jake Tapper. Couldn't be clearer.

[Lord Magus]

14. That guy in the video is not "the DNC" though.

Being a DNC employee doesn't make him "the DNC."

[hellofromreddit]

11. This thread has the clip: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512131024

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512131024

[Demsrule86]

10. A big who cares

He can not win with pledged delegates no matter how well he does. And supers...he might as well ask God to come down and nominate him...he would have more of a chance.

[Nye Bevan]

13. I guess the DNC does not control the media.

How dare the AP ignore the DNC's wishes.

[pdsimdars]

3. How obvious can they be?

[KingFlorez]

4. "It should have been me!"

"Somebody call the police! That woman down there is doggone thief!"

[Tarc]

6. You poor dear

I'ts realistically been over since New York.

[Brickbat]

12. He's had months to turn it around, so....

[Jitter65]

15. Bernie is full of shit! He used the same metrics to call the race for Obama back in 2008.

What a hypocrite!