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In reply to the discussion: i understand fully, Hilary's premise that Sen Sanders hurt her candidacy. [View all]lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 6, 2017, 04:44 PM - Edit history (1)
from July 12:
I AM STILL OFFICIALLY A CANDIDATE. WE ARE GOING TO PHILLY. I DID NOT AND WILL NOT CONCEDE. I AM NOT SUSPENDING MY CAMPAIGN.
http://justicegazette.org/endorsed-but-did-not-concede.html
This is why so many of his supporters acted the way they did, causing mayhem by waving signs saying "Just go to jail Hillary!" "this ridiculous election is rigged" behind MSNBC pundits, booing her during her speech (do you really think that didn't hurt her? Where was the "unity"?), anyway, they were hopeful they could bully Hillary out of her deserved and fairly won election and get Sanders the nomination. You know why they thought that? Because Sanders did NOT concede
Now, let me show you what a concession is like:
"Today as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won, the extraordinary race he has run and and I throw my full support behind him and I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," she said.
She said she and Obama have faced each other in 22 debates and she has had a "front-row seat to his candidacy" and has seen "his determination, his grace and his grit."
With daughter Chelsea and husband former U.S. president Bill Clinton along with her mother, Dorothy Rodham, watching, the New York senator formally ended her bid for the country's highest political office after a 16-month contest to win over party delegates.
The official announcement came less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough delegates totalling 2,118 to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination." (thanks to lunasun for posting this)
See?