Two names: Stacey Abrams and Bernie Sanders

[Tom Rinaldo]

44. She only became the first (major party) woman nominee for Prsident after she was so designated by

the Democratic Party Convention. You know that. And no one is truly mathematically eliminated before actual votes are cast. Sanders endorsed Clinton before the Convention opened. Contrast that, for example, with a liberal icon like Ted Kennedy who fought an incumbent Democratic President tooth and nail on the floor of a Democratic Convention, and them sat on his hands after the convention, contributing to Carter's defeat by Reagan. Very few here have ever shown any interest blacklisting Teddy over that.

But my point is that Bernie Sanders helped steer a younger generation of potential voters into the political process. The argument here had always been, but they don't show up to vote. They did.