Sanders didn't ask for Clyburn's endorsement before the South Carolina primary?

[StarfishSaver]

And his excuse is because he didn't think Clyburn would endorse him.

Seriously?

[nolabear]

1. Yeeeaah...how he can be so clueless is beyond me.

[StarfishSaver]

4. "You're not with me so screw you" sounds like the guy we're trying to get out of the White House now

[MFGsunny]

29. Sadly, it certainly feels quite so.

All this 3-word - "blah, blah, establishment" is beginning to border on a charlatan mantra and sure doesn't work for me.

The sloganeering being recycled from 2016 is totally deaf and blind to the REALITY that one CANNOT conflate "establishment" with voters. And the voters are seeing and speaking. Thank goodness!

[NurseJackie]

34. Exactly. It's another example of LEADERSHIP FAILURE.

It just goes to illustrate the validity and truthfulness of what a famous person said recently in a Hulu special documentary...

Shortly after THR's in-depth interview with Clinton was published on Tuesday, her comments about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — "Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," she says in the documentary — prompted the hashtag #nobodylikeshim to quickly became a top trend on Twitter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hillary-clinton-debuts-hulu-doc-at-sundance-addresses-bernie-sanders-comments-1272839

[msongs]

2. Im not gonna call him cuz his politics are not MY politics. then we supposed to believe him about

supporting biden

[George II]

3. How smug. So he only talks to people who might endorse him? He must be lonely.

[uponit7771]

5. Does Sanders think Clyburn is"establishment" ?

[TwilightZone]

14. Without a doubt.

I guarantee it.

[True Blue American]

27. That is funny!

30 years in Congress is an outsider?

[uponit7771]

35. Yep, same gas lighting as you know who

[True Blue American]

36. Exactly!

Democrats did not fall for that before. They sure will not this time!

[Docreed2003]

6. In 2016

Several SC political insiders and civil rights leaders reached out to Bernie's camp and offered their assistance helping him establish himself in the state and basically the response they got back was "Nah, we're good". Marc Thompson talked about this with guests from SC more than once. I was dumbfounded when I heard that!

[OnDoutside]

30. And yet, is it all that surprising ?

[Cha]

7. And, why didn't BS go to Selma to be with John Lewis..

and all the people who were honoring those who Marched on Bloody Sunday March 7, 1965?

[True Blue American]

28. Big mistake!

One of the worst.

[Cha]

44. Exactly.. it will always be there.

[still_one]

43. +++

[Cha]

45. Mahalo, still_one

[brush]

8. Guess he's trying to prove he can win without black support.

It ain't gonna happen.

[relayerbob]

9. And despite his civil rights history

Didn't show up for Selma.

[StarfishSaver]

12. Maybe all that marching he did with Dr. King wore him out

[sheshe2]

21. He was arrested damn it!!!

[helpisontheway]

25. He had to go to his big rally..huge..🙄nt

[Demsrule86]

40. Wasn't he in Virginia?

[oasis]

10. And a "no show" at an important historical civil right's event. Not good. nt

[StarfishSaver]

15. How is stating what Sanders did and didn't do "Bernie bashing"?

Did he indeed ask the endorsement of the most respected and powerful black man in the state of South Carolina before the South Carolina primary? If you think it was fine that he didn't reach out to him, why are you so upset that I mentioned it? And if you don't think it was ok, do you think it should be ignored?

And demanding that everyone "start uniting" the same day that Sanders spent trashing Biden is pretty rich.

[Demsrule86]

41. +1000 So true and already his supporters are hinting or saying it outright that their vote is way

more important than the always reliable AA vote...and you know (whisper), 'those are Southern States'

[msongs]

16. commenting on a person's ongoing behavior is not bashing. when the behavior changes

the commenting will change.

[nycbos]

13. Source?

[TexasTowelie]

17. Does anybody wonder why Bernie can't win a primary in a southern state?

Other than showing up for the debates in Atlanta and Houston, Bernie didn't campaign at all in the South during the second half of 2019. He snubbed the Essence festival in New Orleans. That isn't the way to build coalitions.

[msongs]

20. did he win a northern state either yesterday?

[TexasTowelie]

22. Vermont.

The only New England states that haven't voted are Connecticut and Rhode Island.

[True Blue American]

37. Biden already won Maine and Massachusetts.

Voters want change, they do not want Revolution.

[Demsrule86]

42. But hillariously, Sanders didn't win it by much...and Biden took delegates out of Vermont...

Sanders better hope the Democratic Party lets him run as a Democratic candidate next time or he might lose a primary.

[Celerity]

18. they talked, but Sanders did not actively pursue his endorsement

https://www.thedailybeast.com/majority-whip-jim-clyburn-sanders-never-courted-my-endorsement?source=articles&via=rss

House Majority Whip James Clyburn has had many productive conversations with Sen. Bernie Sanders during their shared years in Congress. But when it came to seeking the influential South Carolinian's endorsement, the Vermont senator didn’t make a concerted effort.

“No, not really,” Clyburn told The Daily Beast in an interview when asked if Sanders or his campaign staff did anything specific to court him ahead of the influential Feb. 29 primary.

“I had a lot of conversations with almost every one of the candidates,” he said, referencing nearly two dozen candidates, including Sanders, who attended his “World Famous Fish Fry” in Columbia in June.

But Clyburn acknowledged the outreach didn’t go much beyond that.

“I don’t need to be courted,” he said.

[mcar]

19. Well, Clyburn is the establishment, you see

[Jarqui]

23. A key thing that prevented Bernie from winning in 2016 was lack of black support

Blacks supported Hillary and the states with large black populations basically seemed to shut Bernie out.
I was a Bernie supporter and watched it happen state after state.
Bernie tended to do well in the predominantly white states.

In Nevada this year, Bernie appears to have made some progress with Latinos.
That might be echoed by his results in California.
But the blacks in South Carolina slammed the door on him.

We saw it again last night in the states who were 15% or more black:
Alabama
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
Arkansas

They basically seemed to say collectively "we're not having any part of you, Bernie!"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/exit-polls-2020-super-tuesday-primary/#RACE
Exit poll shows 58% of blacks supported Biden, 17% supported Sanders - giving Biden a staggering +41 vs Sanders there.

Bernie may complain about "the Democratic establishment" shutting him out but the reality is, for whatever reason, blacks don't support him in the primary and they seem as big a reason as any he can't get over the top in the primary.

This provides serious headwinds for his 2020 primary chances because states with large black populations tend to be large delegate states. We saw this pattern in 2016 and it seems to be continuing in 2020.

Whatever overtures he attempted to address this clearly have not worked. And it has nothing to do with "the establishment".

[Cha]

24. "BS didn't bother asking for Jim Clyburn's endorsement bc "his politics aren't my politics"."

Link to tweet

Worse..

[Native]

26. It's not just politicians...

I have 2 family members who head large non-profits. They've both tried to work with Sanders over the years, and their opinion is that he is intractable, totally incapable of compromise. Just want people to know that it is his personality - that it extends beyond his ideologies. My way or the highway in another country would be a dictatorship. Here it would be a different kind of disaster.

[OnDoutside]

31. Yes, it battle of ideology, that's why he never changes and hasn't changed in 40 years.

[Recursion]

32. What worries me is how many people say that like it's a good thing

I know the Sanders/Corbyn comparison gets overdone, but they have one very troubling similarity: they both want to win an election that's somehow set in 1979.

[OnDoutside]

33. Yes, absolutely true. I'm listening to De Blasio right now, saying that Biden will be examined now,

which is a joke considering what he's gone through over the last 18 months ! On the contrary, Sanders is now going to be examined like he wasn't in 2016, and about time too.

[True Blue American]

38. Anyone who has not changed

In 40 years has a problem. The rest of us change often, even daily as we learn new facts.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

39. "And his excuse is because he didn't think Clyburn would endorse him."

It's increasingly amazing to me that Sanders' idea of solidarity is so basic.