In his email to supporters today, he said this:
But you know that what we are doing is about more than Bernie Sanders. It is all of us together. It is what this movement is about. It is millions of people from coast to coast standing up and looking around them and knowing that we can do much, much better as a nation.
That whether Wall Street likes it, whether corporate America likes it, whether wealthy campaign contributors like it, whether the corporate media likes it, we together know what our job is. And that is to bring the American people together to create a government that works for us, not the 1 percent.
Our fight is to transform our country and to understand that we are in this together. To understand that all of what we believe is what the majority of the American people believe. And to understand that the struggle continues.
Last night, because the rally crowd could only see vs hear CNN, they were EXTREMELY angry seeing initial returns coming in, shouting "bullshit" and probably feeling like there had been some kind of horrific election fraud, because they couldn't hear the commentary explaining a large portion of Hillary's votes were already tallied from early/mail-in voting -- not only did Hillary encourage it for her supporters, but early voters seem to run slightly more conservative overall. They saw the headlines saying the President himself had already said Bernie lost, without hearing that he'd called both candidates and gave them a unity talk.
They weren't really ready for more unity yet. Besides, DC deserves its chance to vote, too.
But when you can hear the crowd go into a "Bernie or Bust" chant, he says it's not about him. When Obama and Hillary were booed, he held his hand up for silence.
He is staying in through DC so his supporters don't feel like he's giving up on THEM. Then he will unify and do his best to influence the platform and Veep selection.
As far as governors go, the only one besides the Governor of Hawaii to not be among the first 586 DSs to pledge to anyone was the Governor of Montana, none endorsed Sanders -- but he fought Citizens United on the state level as Attorney General and won in the Montana Supreme Court, targeted Fedex for tax evasion and labor violations and broke up meat packing monopolies. No geographical or diversity bonuses, and doesn't shore up Hillary's criminal justice weaknesses (any politician who starts out as Attorney General has to sound tough on crime), but he stayed neutral and Bernie might feel he is zealous enough about the financial corruption to be a good choice.
I'm really hesitant to attempt to tap any sitting Senator or Representative because we need downticket races to go very well and not lose Dems out of the Senate or House, and Russ Feingold is running to take back his Senate seat.
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